Megatechtronium is pulling the plug on its microblogging social-network site that allowed users to send music, photos and messages to friends using the Pownce Web site or desktop software.

Megatechtronium, a San Francisco-based company created by Digg founder Kevin Rose along with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka in June 2007, says Pownce will vanish on Dec. 15, less than a year after its service was made available to the public.

Culver, along with developer Mike Malone, will join the

engineering team at Six Apart, a San Francisco-based provider of blogging software and the company behind Vox, Movable Type, TypePad and Blogs.com.

“We’re bittersweet about shutting down the service, but we believe we’ll come back with something much better in 2009,” Culver wrote on the company’s blog. “We love the Pownce community and we will miss you all.”

Moving On

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