Post to Your Vox Blog (and ALL your blogs) from Facebook!

Apr 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM
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Ever stop to think about how many places on the web you post about your life? For many of us, we're posting on multiple blogs, as well as Facebook, Twitter and Pownce. That's a lot of time spent just to make sure all of our friends and family across the web are caught up on our lives. And while it's incredibly important to stay connected to everyone, at Six Apart, we don't think it should be quite so complicated to do so. That is why we've taken another step in our ongoing effort to create better tools for bloggers, no matter what publishing platforms you use.

We are excited to announce that today, Six Apart launched the first cross-platform blogging application for Facebook -- Blog It powered by TypePad. Blog It brings some of the best social networking aspects of Facebook to blogging, making it easy to blog or micro-blog from within Facebook. It doesn't matter if you blog using Vox, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress.com or WordPress.org, or micro-blog using Twitter, Pownce or your Facebook status... Now you can update everything and everyone via one easy-to-create post on Facebook.

Plus, after you've posted using Blog It, you can choose to automatically share your post via Twitter and Pownce, in addition to the Facebook news feed. While a lot of other Facebook applications rely solely on the news feed to share your activity, Blog It is unique in that it helps you notify everyone you know across the web about what you're creating -- not just your Facebook friends.

Ready to try it out? Just add the Blog It application on Facebook and take a minute to add all your accounts. From there, you can create new blog posts and share them with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Pownce, all just by ticking a few extra boxes. Watch this screencast to preview how Blog It works.

For more information about Blog It powered by TypePad, please visit http://blogit.typepad.com/

Now what are you waiting for? Go Blog It!

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That's great and... Is anyone looking into leaning on Flock (mozilla) to integrate Vox? I commented on their side in hopes they'll work with Vox. If I could design it myself, I would, but I definitely don't have skills.

Love the Vox!

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You know, I'd be a lot more interested if you guys opened up to clients like Windows Live Writer, which also works with many different platforms and has a ton of great features. Or failing that, come up with your own client.

Locking us in to the web or providing feature-poor alternatives like Blog It aren't very helpful. Sorry for the sour response. I love your platform. That's why the lack of an API for external clients is all the more disappointing. Let me know when you've taken care of your last glaring omission.

Multiple blogs
Multiple web sites
Multiple social networking accounts
Multiple email accounts

Multiple Waste of Time

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Marshall, Vox supports the Atom Publishing Protocol which is the industry standard API for blogging clients. This is how Blog It interacts with Vox. I'm not saying there isn't more that we could do, but please do realize that Vox doesn't lack an API.

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i have multiple blog disorder and i just tested - posted to 3 blogs at once, all showed up fast

I apologize for my imprecision. You might have an API, but it's apparently not geared to encourage or enable the kind of feature-rich posting abilities that are available in nearly every other blog hosting service on the market, including Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, Wordpress, and many smaller, niche competitors.

And I understand it's probably by design. You want to preserve page views for ads and interaction with Amazon (for affiliate links). That's fine.

I'm just saying, let me know when you've opened up and I'll come back. As I said, I love the service.

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Thank you for creating this application! It looks very promising. I look forward to the updates mentioned in the video screencast.

I don't use Facebook much at all; actually only to keep in touch with two people. Like others have requested, it would be very beneficial for the Vox API to work with desktop publishing platforms or plugins, such as Windows Live Writer, Firefox extensions, and Flock, or a Vox desktop widget using Adobe AIR, for example. I hope these alternative options become available some day.

Thanks for creating one of the best blogging and social networking services. I really appreciate Six Apart's time and energy spent on integrating separate social networks together, and look forward to seeing what else they have to offer in the future.

I tried to use Blog It earlier and made a vox entry. It doesn't look pretty - it came with multiple post duplicates. :(

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The book The Life of Pi. From the beginning of the book I and the poeple i was reading with came to realize that the first 100 pages of the book was BORING!!!!! But after geting past those pages the story starts to makes since. I love how every connects to each other. Including the first boring. Now I don't want to tell the story so read it and tell me how much you enjoyed it. If you already read it tell me your thoughts.

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tested the blog thang again today - it couldn't log in to wordpress and duplicated my photo on vox

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Apr 17, 2008
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Amen. One should be enough for everyone. But...whatever. As long as everyone is happy...which is pretty much an impossible feat.

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Oh this sounds like what I've waiting for! Can't wait to start using it! Thanks guys!

OOh I like this idea.....

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Thanks Team Vox for a perfect service. Your platform sounds very community, and that may work well for most. Yet, for others the content placed on other blog platforms(blogger, typepad and such) is not retread info/content.

Actually, my readers on other sites are somewhat different that who I hope to have review my New vox blog.

And, that's the nature of blogs. Again, thanks so much for providing Vox as a quality option.

And, I wish Team Vox well with its online community building, and sponsored revenue creation.

Best.

wshepherd.vox.com

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This is great!!! But what if you want to post on all your blogs but don't want people to read a particular post on Facebook?

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Nice idea. Thanks for this.

I want to import my yahoo 360 blogs to vox, any hope of that being a possibility?

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its about time for something like this!!! I mostly get online with my ipod and have looked for something like this for a long time.

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I can't believe how big Facebook has gotten already there are so many addons people are making. Anyone have a good tutorial on how to make your own cool addon for Facebook?

Amber

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I need something that posts my Vox entries automatically to my Facebook profile... not the other way around. I am a mobile blogger, so I use Vox on my Sidekick LX and would like it to also show up on FB.

Any suggestions?

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This is great!!! But what if you want to post on all your blogs but don't want people to read a particular post on Facebook?

And, that's the nature of blogs. Again, thanks so much for providing Vox as a quality option.

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Import blogs from facebook ? it sounds very nice !!

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