Six Apart's Vox Launches

I've been using Vox actively for about eight months and I love it. I am not a blogger and this is my first foray into this kind of service. I love the privacy settings the most - the power to decide who reads my stuff is very liberating. I also love the ability to insert all kinds of media - photos, music, videos, etc. into my posts. I can share videos of my kids with my friends and family without sharing them with the rest of the internet.

I wasn't very attracted to Live Journal or MySpace - both seemed like frat parties and I'm too old for that. Vox is more like a cocktail party. There's always something going on, interesting people to talk to and cool stuff to discover. I'm a fan.

Vox is really well conceived and I only wish that the whole blogging movement had started with a platform like this one. The ability to control who gets to see what you write, whether you want your comments out there for public viewing or only accessible to those close to you, really opens up the accessibility of the blogging platform. I can now ask my family members to start using it so that I can keep up w/their lives and vice-versa w/o any one feeling that they're opening up to the world. It's not LiveJournal, Blogger or Wordpress. Definitely worth a looksy if you've ever wanted write for family and friends, but note, it's not about a place to "hook-up", if that's what you're looking for.

I have my own blog, which is what I spend my energy on, but I wanted a social platform for more general stuff and where I could control access. As someone said earlier, I wanted a "friends and family" blog. Vox serves that perfectly. This is probably ultra-naive and somewhat selfish, but I hope the MySpace crowd stays away.

Heather,

I have been writing a business blog for over a year using the TypePad service. I decided that it was time for a "friends and family" type blog as well.

I found the interface to be very easy to use. I am still not sure about being inside the vox community.

People seem to be reluctant to "join" Vox in order to make any comments on my blog. Thus far I have "invited" 15 of my friends and family and only one has actually registered.

They either don't care to go through the registration process OR fnd my personal ramblings fodder for insanity.

Heather-
Closed networks usually work.

Six Apart should have made Vox an optional upgrade for typepad bloggers.

As per this scenario, a Typepad bloggers' readers could have read one blog formatted in two versions; one text based and the other rich media based.

Vox should be a feature not a full-fledged service.

can't you comment on vox through your typepad or typekey accounts?