VOX Wishlist

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

nobody@vox.com(Patty) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:28:28 -0700

This one was "animated". Lovely. Punch the monkey!

I guess Vox/Six Apart gave up on that whole notion of not running advertising that was deceptive, insulting or untargeted.

Classes up the place doesn't it?

I wonder when the pop ups will start?

Wasn't Mother's Day last month?

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Six Apart <3 iPhone SDK

nobody@vox.com(grantalias) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:37:41 -0700

Compose on iPhone? Yes Please!

With Six Apart's CEO Chris Alden talking about a native iPhone application for TypePad could one for VOX be possible? If not mandatory? I sure hope so. I would not be the only VOXer out there that would greatly appreciate it.

Currently VOX's text boxes do not work with the iPhone / Touch interface. So no comments or composing new posts for me.

This just might be the perfect opportunity to develop an application for VOX as well to TypePad. You know since you're doing all that work anyways... right?

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Action Streams: Activity Aggregator

nobody@vox.com(enSue) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:43:34 -0800

Action Streams - Six Apart News 1/30/2008

http://www.sixapa...

The "Action Streams" Plugin was introduced for MovableType. What about Vox? "We obviously want to ship Action Streams in both TypePad and Vox, since we see them as such an incredible feature. Stay tuned and we'll let everyone know when it happens." ~ David Recordon

Vox blogs may see a great social networking feature sometime within the indefinite future. Six Apart, the parent company of Vox, announced several days ago on their corporate blog that the Action Streams Plugin was introduced for MovableType. Action Streams is an aggregator that publishes your activity elsewhere on the internet to your blog. Thus, your Twitter status updates, Flickr uploads and favorites activity, and so on are included (based on your choosing) on your MovableType blog. (Visual examples can be accessed via my Link, MovableType's blog, or the staff's working demo.) This is similar to, albeit much more robust than, the LoudTwitter application that I and many other bloggers have been using to post their daily Tweets to their blogs. Obviously, this is an exciting, very innovative, and desirable feature for blogs.

Upon being asked if this will eventually be added to TypePad and Vox, Six Apart's David Recordon replied by expressing the company's interest in eventually shipping this feature to both platforms. I really look forward to seeing this come to fruition on Vox. I can't wait!

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Other Accounts on the Vox Sidebar

nobody@vox.com(Kymberlie R. McGuire) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:36:30 -0800

I haven't been posting much over here lately (with the exception of my daily automated Twitter posts) and when I was doing a little reading on enSue's blog, I noticed that you can now add other accounts of yours (like All Consuming, Flickr, Twitter, and Dopplr) to the sidebar. I'd been hoping that would be something that Vox added soon since TypePad added this option a while back and I just love displaying all of the other places you can find me online.

Go ahead and take a look at the sidebar, if you're so inclined, and see where else I'm located. Now if only they would add an option to list your Yelp account, it would be perfect!

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things I wish Vox did or had -- today's list while I am thinking about it.

nobody@vox.com(Patty) — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:51:04 -0800

I'm sure some of this stuff's on the Product road map, but I'm just adding my two cents and starting my own wish list draft post.

Personal Messages: a Sent folder
Personal Messages: the ability to send a PM to multiple users (maybe with a limit of 3 or 4 to prevent spamming
Invitations: the ability to give people you invite to vox suggested neighbors (this was there and now it's gone - what happened to it?)
Personal Messages: the ability to check a box when replying to a PM that says "include original text in with reply". I've seen people who are cutting and pasting the original message in the compose window to get it in the reply...I've taken to doing it too. But the original text is right on the page below the reply compose window, it would be good to be able to just include it in the reply for context.
Share this: the ability to put a personalized cover note on the email being sent. Seems like a basic requirement that's missing in this feature. The way it is now the person has no idea why I am sending this to them [done]. Emails sent via the Share This feature should appear in my Private Message sent box (assuming this is going to be added).
Invitations: the ability to import my contacts from Outlook, Yahoo mail, Gmail, Linked In, Plaxo or anywhere else.
Invitations: on the invitation history page, the ability to EDIT the invitation (or at least see it) when you re-send.
Privacy levels: ability to have a custom friend level of privacy (yes, I know you can kind of do this in Groups, but this would be easier and it would be great to have just one more friend-level privacy designator).
In the Insert Link option) the ability to (in the "Create a Link" window) allow me to check a box that says "open this link in a new window"...so that when you link to something external your users don't have to leave Vox when they open the link you provided to wikipedia or something non-Vox
Organize: ability to click on a photo or anything in Organize and have the thing open immediately. It's weird that you have to hover over it first and then click to make anything happen.
Batch Organize the ability to batch edit anything's privacy levels --including my whole blog and all it's assets if I want to change it.
View Neighbors: ability to sort my View Neighborhood page or search on it (especially needed as the neighborhood of a user gets bigger). How is is sorted now? I have no idea. It's appears random. Not alphbetically, not by dated added to the Neighborhood. Not by who updated most recently. It's a chaotic page and I have just stared at it for minutes trying to find someone I know is there.
Neighborhood (reading) page: speaking of the Neighborhood (the Explore Neighborhood posts page)...Can we add a link at the top of that page that links to the View Neighborhood (should be View Neighbors) page? That would be very convenient and would not take up all that space that was there when the first several userpics of Neightbors lived at the top of the page. A simple link will do. [done]
Email notification: opt-in ability to get a daily digest of posts from 1) any given privacy group, 2) the whole neighborhood 3) any single blog or group blog 4) all comments in a day to my blog and 5) all "recent activity".
Tags: ALL my tags on this page! Or at least the top 100 or more. the page is big enough and it would make it so so so much easier to find a tag I know I made to find a post I know is there. Also, a SEARCH box on this page like there is on the Explore and Organize pages. Please please please!

That's all for now...there's more, but I had a free moment and wanted to get these down now while I was thinking about it.

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Ways to make Vox more useful, if not more interesting

nobody@vox.com(Patty) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:59:26 -0800

This is why I don't blog as much anymore. I use Twitter and the Facebook status updates as little release values and that way I don’t have to make an entire post about what I had for lunch or the random stuff that pops into my head.

I wish Vox had a status update feature that allowed me to make micro-posts from feeds right off of Twitter. Such a thing (and a few other suggestions I keep making to no one in particular at Six Apart) would make Vox so much more useful to me because I use Vox in this semi-public journa-like way.

And while I am making suggestions to no one in particular, I also would like to have a feature back that was a part of Vox way back before it launched publicly…a running “Vox Watch” of all the comments I have on other people’s posts. I’d like to be able to see all of say, Karen’s comments too…or any one of my friends and neighbors.

Anyway, it would be great to have a Vox version of a Facebook “status update” that I could SMS in as post or that updated at the top of the page in a sidebar widget. Because if there was such a thing, then you’d get to see this scintillating running log of my random thoughts and whereabouts like you can on Twitter.

enjoying having tin foil taken off my hair 12:27 PM November 19, 2007
plumber crisis mysteriously resolves itself 09:59 PM November 18, 2007
The Cupertino Whole Foods is the best Whole Foods ever! My god this place is heaven. Can't wait to see my total bill. :-o 09:19 AM November 18,
history of jewish persecution discussions, mattress research, buying new platform bed, looking at cooking classes together...all on phone! o4:19 AM November 18, 2007
going through batteries on the cordless phone with these calls like there's no tomorrow. 04:14 AM November 18, 2007
got tired of waiting at one restaurant, walked out and down the strip mall to another. 08:34 PM November 17, 2007
Stayed at the very hotel where Miss Lohan (or Britney?) ran over photographers foot. It’s good to catch up with TMZ! 08:14 AM November 16, 2007
@lfstewart: yes, I love my 4 seasons friends and guest suite! 08:54 PM November 15, 2007
Facebook is down?!? What the hell? 08:34 PM November 15, 2007
@lizstless: i'm in LA where the Twittering is easy. wish I could have come to your party. did you hear about the meeting today? 08:34 PM November 15, 2007
at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. I love the Four Seasons. Good food, great service, I like being pampered. 08:31 PM November 15, 2007
Listening to AB ask chemistry tutor "why" questions. Silly girl trying to get the concept behind the answer. Tutor laughs "no worries". 07:27 PM November 14, 2007
going to LA again tomorrow, early flight = ugggh 07:18 PM November 14, 2007
Did you know that Bono is a VC? http://www.elevation.com/EP... yes, I suppose you did. 04:07 PM November 14, 2007
I'm thinking that being courted is such a nice feeling, in love and especially in business. Is there a career in being a job candidate? 03:21 PM November 14, 2007
Facebook: "Search is currently unavailable. Please try again at a later time or right now." Well, right now would be good, but no luck. 02:53 PM November 14, 2007
chewing gum and walking at the same time. 021:46 PM November 14, 2007
working on old school media plan. how retro! 01:37 PM November 14, 2007
contemplating a different kind of lifestyle and future 09:53 PM November 13, 2007
At gala event tasting champagne! Woot! Hiccup! Woot! 06:57 PM November 09, 2007

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should VOX mutuality merge with VOX reciprocity ?

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:20:16 -0700

I've created a similar group http://reciprocity.groups.vox.com/ and am thinking of merging the two

Would that make sense ?

In any case please join http://reciprocity.groups.vox.com/ if you are interested !

PS I've tried to invite all "Mutual Friends" to http://reciprocity.groups.vox.com/ but due a MAJOR irritation with VOX the group member drop down lists users in a DIFFERENT order (uses nicknames ?) to the names listed in group members page (uses aliases ?) so it is almost impossible to find you amongst my 100's of contacts if ALL your name variants are NOT the same as in most cases !

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Blog Action Day

nobody@vox.com(Alex Leonard) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:32:14 -0700

I've just signed up to participate in Blog Action Day on the 15th of October. I think someone has come up with a very good idea here and if people put a bit of thought into it we could see some very interesting discussion sending a wave through the net on the 15th.

Perhaps the Vox Team would be interested in getting involved and therefore encouraging Vox users to lend their combined posting support :)

What is it?

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

Blog Action Day Banner

Head on over to the Blog Action Day website to sign up:

http://blogactionday.org/get_involved

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VOX multiple select groups and Groups Of Groups grouping

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:23:18 -0700

When adding a post I oftern want to add it to more than one group ! So could we have a multi-select list and Groups Of Groups grouping (via tags) !

For example I'm likely to want to post an article about photography to Amateur Photographers, Photographers, Photo Editing and unlikely to post it to Ambient, Ecology etc etc

Just have a look at ohloh which uses artifical intelligence to think of appropriate tags for a post maybe VOX could do the same to auto suggest VOX tags & groups

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Vox wishlist

nobody@vox.com(Glitter Queen) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:34:53 -0700

I signed up with VOX a couple of days ago.. since it was weekend.. I had plenty-a-time to blog : )
There are alot of wonderful things about VOX, lots of great features... but it's missing a key element...

I don't mind the fact that you can't re-arrange the sidebar, I don't mind the google ads every other post, after all this is a free community and it has to be supported somehow, what I do miss is that there is no built-in blogroll/link management.

Speaking for myself - I would like to be able to link to my non-vox friends and their blogs. So that is it.. simple really..

LINK MANAGEMENT - one little table with a couple of fields connected to each person's id...voila done!

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