Blogging company Six Apart, makes of Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox—have announced they have acquired micro-blogging service Pownce…and will be promptly shutting it down. Pownce will be shutting down operations on December 15, 2008, and users have until then to use a new export function to get their postings out of Pownce and into services like Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.
Pownce’s Leah Culver and Mike Mallone will join Six Apart’s engineering team, with an eye towards integrating social blogging technologies and features into Six Apart’s products. Pownce’s Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka will operate as advisers to Six Apart.
