Vox blogging platform

Vox was an Internet blogging service run by Six Apart, which ran from October 26, 2006 to September 30, 2010. Before launching, it had the codename 'Project Comet'.

The service claimed to be more streamlined and easier-to-use than other blogging tools available. Its design had features often associated with the Web 2.0 trend. The service was more focused on social networking features than other blogging platforms. Such features included the ability to set permissions on who is able to view each post and a friends list on the sidebar.

Vox was written in Perl, using the Catalyst framework.

On September 2, 2010, Six Apart announced Vox would be closed permanently by the end of the month, providing export tools to their Typepad blogging platform and to Flickr. New content could be posted to the service until September 15, 2010, and it closed permanently on September 30, 2010.

Releases

Before the launch of Vox, beta releases of the service were named after The Daily Show correspondents; release 15 was named Stewart, while releases 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, and 9 were named Colbert, Corddry, Bee, Carell, Littleford, and Rocca, respectively.

In a release implemented on November 10, 2006, minor bugs were fixed. The release also gave beta testers of Vox, those who had joined before the initial release, a special theme as well as a banner in their profile designating them beta testers.

Features

Some of Vox's features include:

Picking of predefined designs

Uploading videos

Control over which posts are available to the public

Linking of content from other sites, such as YouTube, Flickr, iStockphoto, Photobucket, iFilm etc.

Ability to create your own banners, thus customizing the blog further.

Community-oriented components, such as QotD (Question of the Day) posts.