Today I learned that Pownce will be going away. It sounds like they are trying to do the right thing by their users–providing an export function and moving Pro users to a free TypePad account.

Pownce will soon join a growing pool of once hot/promising Web 2.0 startups and technologies who have gone under–victims of the current financial crisis or market apathy.

More distubing than the news of Pownce is the story of Digital Railroad.  From the sound of it, more than one photographer lost his/her data in this fiasco.