New platforms like Mastodon (created by Eugen Rochko) are somewhat ten a penny (remember disaspora, Pownce, Indenti.ca?) but few so brazenly steal from a platform's user pain points to form a ...

Pownce is both more and less than Twitter: Though it adds file sharing, it lacks Twitter's public page and users' ability to post through a mobile phone or PDA. And it's lighter than typical ...

Waldman, who had spent eight years working as a graphic designer/digital anthropologist at a Kansas City ad agency before moving to San Francisco and joining the short-lived social network Pownce ...

Tech entrepreneur Kevin Rose, who co-founded Digg, Pownce and Milk, has reportedly been hired by Google. It follows Milk’s recent closure of its app Oink. AllThingsD reports that Rose and a ...

His 2007 microblogging startup Pownce was acquired then immediately shut down by Six Apart. Oink is the only app Milk Inc. has yet to produce, though the company claims to adhere to the “rapid ...

Pownce was so hyped up that invites to the service were sold on eBay. What it was hyped up to be: Pownce was like Twitter but with rich media components. It was called the "hottest startup in ...

And that’s sexy. Leah Culver, CEO and Founder of Convore; Former Lead Developer at Pownce Dave Goldberg, Programmer at Contently Daniel Doubrovkine, Programmer at Art.sy Daniel is the Head of ...

Pownce, the hosted Twitter-alike service Six Apart acquired last year, re-emerges as free, open-source app for Web developers called Motion. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun ...

Were you also a user of Pownce, Yahoo Photos, or Google Notebook? Everything has a natural lifecycle, of course, and I have to expect that some of the products I (perhaps too eagerly) embraced will ...