Crenk.com (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
It was a week ago today, that Pownce lost it’s bounce. Co-founders Leah Culver and Mike Malone took their team with them to work with the company that acquired Pownce, Six Apart, on a new micro-blogging platform called Motion. Pownce launched with wild-acclaim, supported by the founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, it seemed to have all [...]
The Seldom Seen Kid (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
It was a week ago today, that Pownce lost it’s bounce. Co-founders Leah Culver and Mike Malone took their team with them to work with the company that acquired Pownce, Six Apart, on a new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
... that made Pownce popular, and its likely that the talent behind Pownce, namely Leah Culver and Mike Malone, were involved with the creation of Motion. The service is currently in closed beta, although it will be available to Movable Type Pro users in 2009. Motion is primarily a microblogging service, but the service comes with a number of features that may help it succeed where Pownce...
Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Broadcasting & Cable’s Mike Malone has word of layoffs at KNSD, WNBC and KSTP. “I’m not going to write up every batch of station layoffs in the next year,” he writes. “It’d be too depressing, and it would just be too damn time consuming, too.” Sad, but true, because next year is looking [...]
Blogrunner (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo! Cory BergmanLost RemoteBroadcasting & Cable's Mike Malone has word of layoffs at KNSD, WNBC and KSTP. "I'm not going to write up every batch of station layoffs in the next year," he writes. "It'd be too depressing, and it would just be too damn time consuming, too." Henry BlodgetSilicon Alley InsiderA new name jumps into the Yahoo CEO...
Blogging Pro (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
... believe so strongly in and we?re very excited to take our vision to all of Six Apart's products. Mike and I have joined Six Apart as part of their engineering team and we?re looking forward to being a part of the talented group that has created amazing tools for blogging and publishing. Even though they will be coming up with an export tool soon, those who paid for Pro accounts have been...
Live Crunch (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
... can still keep their messages. (Hint Hint: SixApart clearly went for the brains ‘Leah Culver’ and ‘Mike Malone”) Related articles around the web: WebWare - Pownce to shut down after Six Apart sale TechCrunch - Pownce Deadpooled, Team Moves To Six Apart ReadWriteWeb - SixApart Hires Pownce Founders, Closes Service Official Pownce Blog - Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart
Hi, I'm Colin. (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Two questions for Mike Malone, of Pownce, on the recent news that Pownce is shutting down and he and Leah Culver are headed to Six Apart.
bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
by Brian Solis Interesting news in the micromedia space today. Just read over at the Pownce Blog that Six Apart has acquired the company and will essentially shut it down - in its current state - on December 15th. Leah Culver and Mike Malone are joining the Six Apart engineering team, most likely to focus on [...]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Blog software company Six Apart is buying Twitter clone Pownce and is shutting it down. Co-founder Leah Culver (pictured) and full-time employee Mike Malone will join Six Apart; Culver says they'll "take [their] vision to all of Six Apart's products." Does that mean Six Apart will try to go after Twitter directly? Or -- more likely -- just add more messaging/"microblogging" features...
AdPulp (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Breaking news from the mergers and acquisitions department in San Francisco... Six Apart has acquired Pownce . We have been impressed not only with the vision for Pownce but the great work of Leah Culver and Mike Malone and are very happy that they will be joining us. We’re also very excited to welcome Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as advisers to Six Apart. For Pownce users, we are very...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Pownce , the microblogging service often compared to Twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart. According to the company blog , the service will be shutdown on December 15th, while the main Pownce team – Leah Culver and Mike Malone – will join Six Apart. Users will have the option to “import [their] posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.” The brainchild of...
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Pownce co-founder Leah Culver has just announced that Pownce will be shutting down as of December 15 and they they have sold their technology to Six Apart. Leah and Pownce developer Mike Malone will be joining Six Apart’s engineering team. More Coverage: - Pownce Blog - Six Apart - CNET News This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For [...] Related posts: - Pownce, A Great Way to Send...
Marketing Pilgrim (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... to Six Apart, the company behind blogging platforms Vox, Movable Type and TypePad. Leah Culver and Mike Malone will be joining the engineering team at Six Apart, hoping to continue their vision there. We’re very happy that Six Apart wants to invest in growing the vision that we the founders of Pownce believe so strongly in and we’re very excited to take our vision to all of Six Apart’s...
The Register (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... to a from former Pownce CEO Leah Culver — who now joins Six Apart along with Pownce co-founder Mike Malone — the micro-boggers will "come back with something much better in 2009."And now we await the death of Twitter. It may have the industry-leading vomit share, but it lacks anything close to a business model. ®
