April Fool's is threatening MySpacification and seems to be the purpose of the infamous middle-finger VGift. Many folks do not get the joke and freak. Cynics remember the 2005 ad-based April Fool's, ala "Take banner advertisements, for example. Some may say that they are evil. I say that they demonstrate a strong ability to strengthen cost-profit ( Read more... )

Source: English-strip QotD widget. QoTD stands for Question of the Day.

One thing I'd like to see in LJ that Vox has related to QotD is global tags--I wonder if it's possible that's in the pipeworks in conjunction with the search system.

Couple make the big time in blogs

Most of it is about Vox, Vox, Vox, because:This is a good and growing business that supports 150 employees, but it is not the break-out phenomenon that justified the fancy price paid for YouTube ( Read more... )

PC Magazine reviews both LiveJournal and Vox.

Notes the ad controversy, although it does (probably unintentionally, due to space and comprehension issues) underplay the amount of advertising that's been introduced to the service:Community is where LiveJournal truly shines, and though Vox has done an impressive job incorporating and improving upon ( Read more... )

I don't know about anyone else, but this made me angry. We have been asking for this for awhile. Is it me being paranoid or does things seem to go through VOX (A free ad based system) before Live Journal?

The email stated that the VOX users asked for it and they got it, what about Live Journal users asking for things and not getting it!

Customize ( Read more... )

Vox can now crosspost to LiveJournal.

anildash kindly corrects me on Vox having/not having communities in the future: "That being said, I'm not saying whether Vox will or won't have communities -- as far as I know, we haven't announced either way yet. My guess is we're going to just listen to the feedback people submit and judge by that, same as with everything else ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure whoever made this post on Vox had some official capacity to make those kinds of statements--I got there through this post on Six Apart's ProNet blog.

There’s Still Room for More and Better Social Networking: An Interview with SixApart’s Andrew Anker -- LJ advertising malcontents even get a short mention: "Some people felt burnt, though, when LiveJournal recently introduced sponsored communities and features." There's another post on TechCrunch about Vox's launch: Vox Lifts Off and You’ll Love ( Read more... )

Why talk about Vox? In Mena Trott's introduction post to Project Comet (the code name for Vox during early development), 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 ( Read more... )