Six Apart
Dec 2 2008, Kamal Kishore

Pownce was started in June 2007 as a closed beta and was fully released to the public in January 2008. Today it was announced that Six Apart the owners of such services as Live Journal and Typepad will acquire and shut down the service on December 15....

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