Coming on the day that the USA confirms its in a recession can't be great news, but I don't think this move is solely economy driven, though Six Apart recently laid off some folks.Pownce came on the scene and offered more than Twitter, by letting its users share links, files, and calendar events. Though for me it never really had a sense of community that I could tap into, like Twitter. At least they are letting people know early and are offering a way to export your posts.
I'm glad to see some of the team go over to Six Apart and it reads as though they are taking the technology with them, but I wonder is this the next step for some of the other messaging services?
Twitter still has not defined a real way to make money (Pownce offered inline ads) and the name-of-the-game is increasingly aggregation for a way to navigate the current social web. Will Twitter buy, or be bought by, some blogging software or possibly one of the search engines?
As is so often the case I think the thing on most peoples lips is "pity. what's next?"
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