Twitter - Public Timeline = Prologue
Perhaps we can call this one a de-mashup? Automattic has apparently been recently bit by the Twitter bug, and has become inspired by the format to create something that caters a bit towards the group blogging community, it would appear. The functionality of the system is that it creates mini-Twitter groups on the domain of your choice (separate from the actual Twitter system, of course), where the microblog can be effectively compared to the public timeline of Twitter.
The difference of course is that the membership consists of only a handful of users.