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Importing to Vox, TypePad, or WordPressDecember 10 2008

Pownce offers several ways to export your data and import to other blog software. To get started, you’ll need to go to the Pownce export settings page and generate your export files. Once you’ve received your export files, you should save them to your computer but you can also import them to another blog! We’ve tested and verified Pownce importing into Vox, TypePad and Wordpress.com.

Vox

Vox offers a “neighborhood”, a social network that is home to a great community. You can even view your friends’ latest posts on your neighborhood page. You can find my Vox blog (including Pownce posts) at leahculver.vox.com.

To start importing, log in to your Vox account or create a new Vox account. Then go to You -> Library -> Posts and click on the “Import…” button.

Enter the URL to your export settings page - it should contain your secret key - and click “Go.” You can then select which posts you’d like to import or can choose to “Import all posts.”

TypePad

Download and save your Movable Type formatted file from your Pownce export settings page. Next, login to your TypePad accou

Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six ApartDecember 1 2008

We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. We’re bittersweet about shutting down the service but we believe we’ll come back with something much better in 2009. We love the Pownce community and we will miss you all.

We’re very happy that Six Apart wants to invest in growing the vision that we the founders of Pownce believe so strongly in and we’re very excited to take our vision to all of Six Apart’s products. Mike and I have joined Six Apart as part of their engineering team and we’re looking forward to being a part of the talented group that has created amazing tools for blogging and publishing.

We’ll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th. Since we’d like for you to have access to all your Pownce messages, we’ve added an export function. Visit pownce.com/settings/export/ to generate your export file. You can then import your posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.

For our Pro memb

Database IssuesNovember 16 2008

The Pownce site has been acting a little wonky this weekend. One of our databases was not keeping up to date, resulting in displaying old notes instead of your most recent ones.

Don’t worry, no posts or replies were lost!

We’re working on fixing the issue now. Thanks for letting us know about the problem and for your patience and support.

Pownce Site IssuesNovember 6 2008

Oh noes! We’ve had some issues this morning. Our slave database was corrupted and we’re currently running on one database while we restore from backup. You might see some error messages and slowness but the site should be fine shortly. Thanks so much for your patience and understanding.

Update: Today is not our lucky day. Our backup database is also having some issues, so the site will be down while we recover.

Photo by unclebumpy on Flickr

Happy Halloween from PownceOctober 28 2008

My favorite Halloween tradition is pumpkin carving. This year I was inspired to make a Pownce-themed pumpkin!

More photos on Flickr.

I hope you all have a safe and fun Halloween!