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  • Bye Bye Pownce

    Posted on Dec. 1, 2008 at 23:05 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    It's always sad to see services that you actually really liked going the way of the dodo. It just happened a few days ago with Stikkit and now it's Pownce's time to leave the net. I personally never found a real use-case for me with Pownce but I always liked the service nonetheless for it's quite unique approach to social messaging. Now that Leah and Mike move on to SixApart, Pownce will be shut down (but at least with a 14 days time-period for getting your data out of it).

    What I don't get about this whole move is, that why SixApart is hiring both of them. From what I've gathered, SixApart seems to me like a pure Perl-shop while Pownce was (and for the next 2 weeks still is) a pure Django application. It's also definitely sad to see one of the biggest (or least most popular) Django sites go down.

    Anyway: Big thanks to Leah and Mike for Pownce and good luck with SixApart :-) (Perhaps you can teach them some serious programming language over there ;-) j/k). The whole story has one positive aspect, though: I finally can focus exclusively on Twitter for social messaging ;-)

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  • Vox's Question of the day

    Posted on July 25, 2006 at 21:27 +0200 Tagged with , , , , ,

    I think last Wednesday while being on a train to Villach I listened to episode 28 of "Inside the Net" with Amber MacArthur were she and Leo Laporte interviewed Mena Trott of Six Apart. I think the main focus of the whole podcast was Six Apart's new entry level service Vox which's aim is to offer everyone a simple yet nice and powerful blogging platform.

    During that interview, Mena or Amber mentioned the "Question of the day". From what I've understood the team behind Vox everyday comes up with a question to all its members to somehow provide a reason to blog everyday. Actually a really nice idea which is in my opinion way better than the flood of memes that were flying around the last couple of months.

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