Trying TypePad as well as Vox with an iPhone
I am experimenting with a TypePad blog too, largely because it is optimized for an iPhone. (But there you have to pay). I wish that Vox was set up similarly! Apparently it is for some other web phones, but not for the iPhone. I find that very hard to understand!
But when you travel, it would be nice to be able to input text as well as photos from the iPhone. (Doing photos by email does work great, although I notice on TypePad, the photos seem to get posted with their correct names.
I am wondering if Vox be considered a "social networking" site, like Facebook and MySpace are? I guess some think so. But I have never used the latter. What are the similarities and difference?
Regardless, I do seem to have built up a little "community" here in a couple of weeks. Something around sixty "neighbors." And I have enjoyed the interaction enough that now it would be very hard to give up!
I like about Vox that it is so easy to post a variety of "stuff": text, photos, books, music, etc. Fun! And that i can do the photos so easily from an iPhone (although Apple also provides a simple way to do that--but not text)
But I have some "work to get done," too, some manuscripts to prepare. And I wonder if TypePad isn't a better place for that? For one thing, it is possible to export the blog, and put items in reverse dated order (that is to say, the "oldest items first," which is more appropriate for a book manuscript!
Both Vox and TypePad are offerings from Six Apart.
My main prior blog experience is with Blogger.
Any info or opinions are welcome indeed!
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Myspace and Facebook -
Myspace is focused mainly on "comments," which are small messages that people send back and forward to each other on pictures, blogs, bulletins (though not all people allow them on their posts) and their profiles. In my circle at least, no one has ever read my blog, and most people have so many friends that a bulletin passes by on the board (since the board only allows for about 10 posts at a time (and they recieve every bulletin their added friends post)). It's a great site to share pictures though, I find most people who visit my myspace tend to leave picture comments. And, they recently added updates for myspace so you know which of your friends added/changed their profiles, pictures, etc. A good plus (or minus) is that you can customize your page any way you'd like. There's millions of layouts, customized comment boxes, and layout generators online. That can be expressive or a hassle, because it takes so long for beginners to find a good layout (best thing I've found is to get a nice wallpaper-sized photo and feed that into a layout generator). Plus, some friends post really annoying bright pink wallpapers with very high-pitched songs and the most obnoxious glitter graphics x_x but that's probably only 'cause I'm in high school. By the way, Myspace has been voted #1 Worst Site Design. xD
Facebook is vastly different. It focuses mainly on application (small games and such) that are shared between friends. They're pretty amusing for a short while, but eventually they get tedious (for instance, there's an application called Vampires vs. Werewolves, in which you try to send it to as many friends as you can by "biting" them (aka: sending them a message asking them to join the Vamp army - I was a Vamp, not a werewolf, so I have no idea of the equivalents)). There's a very handy application called FunWall, which allows you to draw on your friends profiles. That seems to be the main highlight of Facebook. You can also send messages, post up youtube vids, and do absolutely anything that can be found in the apps (the youtube one is an app as well). There's practically no changing your page. It's about which apps you add and what you write about yourself. I've never tried to blog on facebook, but once again, I never went to my friend's blogs either, so it could be about equal to myspace's blogging system.
And, as for Vox mobile (which really should have been the bulk of my comment, but... oh well), there's an application for free on Palm phones (I have the Centro from Sprint - shoulda gotten the red one instead of the black though). You can post very well from anywhere, but it's new so I haven't tried to post pictures up yet. And the buttons are a bit small, but I seem to be adjusting quite well. ^_^