[...] 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. [...]
[...] 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. [...]