Vox

Overview
Vox is the newest Six Apart blog offering, currently in beta production. It's ad-supported.

The Vox Team blog can be found at team.

Vox's code name before production was "Project Comet", a wordplay on AJAX.

In Mena Trott's introduction post to Project Comet, she states that Project Comet was "something we’ve been working on for over a year". Since the post was made in September 2005, that means Six Apart had been working on it since before September 2004--before the purchase of LiveJournal. It is possible that one of the main reasons for LiveJournal's purchase was to help facilitate the development of Vox.

If you would like to create a Vox, go here.

If you already have a Vox and would like to log in, go here.

Terms

 * Assets
 * The collective of your Audio, Books, Photos, Posts, and Videos


 * Audio
 * You can upload sounds from your computer, or transfer them from other websites like Amazon.com


 * Books
 * You can link to books from websites like Amazon.com


 * Collections
 * You can put your Assets into folders


 * Comments
 * You can comment on Assets on your Vox and other Voxes


 * Compose
 * To post an entry


 * Design
 * To customize the look of your Vox


 * Explore
 * Search all Assets on Vox


 * Family
 * A subset of your Neighbors that are "Family"


 * Friends
 * A subset of your Neighbors that are "Friends"


 * Neighborhood
 * Most like the Friends Page on LiveJournal, this is where you go to see:
 * Recent Assets and Collections from your Friends, Family and Neighbors


 * Neighbors
 * Friends on LiveJournal
 * To add someone, hover over their profile photo and you'll get some menu options, one of which to add them to your Neighborhood.


 * Organize
 * To organize your Assets and Comments


 * Photos
 * You can upload photos from your computer, or transfer them from other websites like Amazon.com or iStockPhoto


 * Posts
 * "Entries" on LiveJournal


 * QOTD - Question Of The Day
 * A daily question of which you can post a reply to in your own Vox
 * It is automatically tagged with qotd and a unique identifier to that question


 * Tags
 * You can tag your Assets
 * Tags will appear on your Vox, in VoxWatch, and many other places on the site


 * [this is good]
 * You can tag something with [this is good] to give it that extra flair to catch the passing eye if you think, well, that it's good


 * Videos
 * You can upload videos from your computer, or transfer them from other websites like Google Video orYouTube


 * VoxWatch
 * Much like the Friends Page on LiveJournal but not as much as your Neighborhood, this is the place where you go to see:
 * Recently Favorited items from all users on Vox
 * Recent Assets from your Friends, Family and Neighbors

Links

 * Top 50 Users on Vox