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Twitter has snapped up the IP behind a couple of popular Web 2.0 services.  I Want Sandy and Stikkit were both acquired by Twitter a few weeks ago.  The services were originally scheduled to go offline last week, but this window has been extended until the end of business (17:00 PT) this Friday, December 19th.

About Sandy is a service that helped to keep details of your life top of mind, so you could focus on getting things done.  By emailing “Sandy” with the details of upcoming tasks or events the service can contact you by email or by text message to alert you.

Stikkit is a service that uses email-based communication to track to-do list items.  Its unique ability to recognize and analyze the contents of an email message to determine its relevance (contact info, calendar info etc) is what makes this tool unique.  The system allows you to email the service and view/manage the information from the web.

It isn’t entirely clear at this stage what Twitter plans to do with the technology behind these two services.  What is clear is that they’re planning something.  They have hired the man behind the technology to work on their user-experience team.

If you’re a user of these two services you most likely know about the impending shut down, but just in case there is a link for each service that will allow you to export your data.

• I Want Sandy
• Stikkit

Stay tuned for more.

Thanks to Lumpycam over at The Daily Rider for the tip.