Six Apart Opens Up TypePad APIs, Relaunches Pownce As TypePad Motion

I have a lot of respect for Pownce. I had an account, even if I didn't use it as much as Twitter, and I was really disappointed when they closed down.

So I want to be excited about this, but I find the "community microblogging" idea really confusing. I was clicking through their example site for FOWA, and I just don't get it. And this is coming from someone who just read an article explaining how it works!

I'm disappointed to see that each of these TypePad Motion deployments will be closed on it's own, instead of hooking into some kind of distributed TypePad Motion network.

At any rate it's open source... looking forward to what comes out of the community's development on this.