MySpace Killer?
At least according to Kevin Burton, Vox will ‘kill‘ WordPress and MySpace. I took a quick look but I didn’t sign up. I just don’t care to be a member of another blogging/social networking website. I don’t even have a WordPress.com account and that is what I generally recommend to people who want to set up a blog but don’t want to worry about hosting. Blogger seems to have more spam problems and MySpace tries to be all things to all people.
Vox vows to play “well with other web services” but I still wonder why after going through all the trouble of uploading your wedding photos to Flickr, inviting all your friends to Friendster, your business associates to LinkedIn, and publishing for a year or so at any of the existing free blogging services you move everything to Vox? The longer someone uses a service, the more data they have entered into it, the bigger the switching cost involved.
Emlyn moved his blog from Drupal to WordPress partly as a result of my recommendations, but it still took work and a certain level of technical expertise. Based on the webpages being made over at MySpace I don’t think the average user could migrate all their postings, photos, and friends easily. There are some tools to move from blogging software X to WordPress, maybe some tools will be created to move to Vox. Or maybe some level of inter-communication will arrive similar to what is finally starting to happen in the instant messaging space.
This entry was posted on Monday, August 7th, 2006 at 3:44 pm filed under: Blogging, Online Social Networks, WordPress and tagged: Blogger, Drupal, Flickr, Kevin Burton, MySpace, Vox. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
