Comments on: Six Apart Gobbles Up And Shuts Down Pownce http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/ The economics of digital content Sat, 18 May 2013 03:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Manuel http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65104 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:22:54 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65104 I wonder why so many sites get shut down – they could try to sell the site, like that they would make some money and the site would stay online.

]]> By: Rafat Ali http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65103 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:34:36 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65103 My guess is they got it really cheap, which is literally the price of the employees and assuming any liabilities, hence they bought it and did the right thing shutting it.

]]> By: Jamie Poitra http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65102 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:30:16 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65102 It wouldn't make any sense to include Pownce in MT or their other services. Micro blogging can be done with any of the other larger blogging platforms. What makes Twitter is the community and the name share not the functionality which isn't earth shattering in any sense.

Since it is so community based I'm not sure how well another micro blogging site could compete anyway once another has already reached a critical mass of some point.

There's room for regional clones of the community though. Say in countries Twitter has no mindshare yet.

Will be interesting to see how this ends up working out for SixApart. Why buy the company if all you wanted were the engineers?

]]> By: Jenkins http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65101 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:41:54 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/02/419-six-apart-gobbles-up-and-shuts-down-pownce/#comment-65101 Who's next? Seesmic? Tumblr?

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