A fellow Pownce user in the wild! Incredible to think that was 10 years ago. I feel like that app was years ahead of its time — the casual immediacy of Twitter without the character limits, the ease of sharing media like an internet-wide HipChat or Slack, topics like Reddit. Selfishly, I always hoped Leah would stop working at Dropbox and start another company :-)
Pownce WAS ahead of its time. Revision3 built a solid product and I still can't believe that was 10 years ago. God I miss TechTV.
That was my first reaction as well. I really liked Pownce and I think she did great work on it. It was sad to see it shut down.
The embedding stuff (oEmbed?) was pretty great too. I wish it was used by more people.