9 posts tagged “vox”
Jeff, Nick, Bryan, Marc, DjChall and I spent the day Hacking MT & Vox.
Nick and I spend an hour working with Jeff to integrate a feature from Snapvine so that Vox users can add audio comments to their photos... we've still need to have the design team polish it, the product team approve it, and Jeff to finish a few features. Jeff and his coworker are hooking us up with some generous foobar enablers. Pondering whether we should have one blowout, or stretch it out over a few...
the reason i started this blog is because i got sucked in through the blog by beau smith. his food photos did it for me. i was smitten by the beet appetizer. -- eva_vv
Eva - Thanks for the kudos and welcome to Vox.
Over the last 14 months I've had the opportunity to work with some brilliant colleagues here at Six Apart while leading the front-end development of Vox's blog templates and themes. It has been a great challenge and a fantastic experience.
As soon as we wrap up the last Vox features of 2006, I'll be joining the Movable Type team on the path to MT 4.0... it's gonna be awesome!
Six Apart is a great place to work.
After a few random-fun phrases we better get some of the basics down:
- Hello - konnichiwa
- Goodbye/Bye - sayonara
- Good Morning - ohayou
- Good Evening - kommbannwa
- See you tommorrow - mata ashita
- See you later - mata atode
- Thank you - arigatou
- Excuse me - sumimasen
- I'm sorry - gomennasai
Gambattene! (Good Luck!)
I'm always excited when we our co-workers from our Japanese or French/European team visit. I'm facinated by cultures different than my own. It can be very comical when you find things that they do that are odd and they find things that you do are odd.
Leaning new languages is also a great way to learn about diferent cultures because they often have slightly different ways to say the same thing.
For the next few weeks three members of the Japanese Vox team (tanimoto 谷本, Dice ダイス, and Atsushi) have offered to provide three new phrases to learn.
Yesterdays three were centered around going out to a Vox team dinner at King Fish in South Beach:
- ikimasho - let's go
- onaka suita - I am hungry
- nomimono o kudasai - I need a drink
Today's words:
- daijobu - no problem
- wakarimashita - I see or I understand
- sansei desu - I agree
I can't wait till tomorrows words!
Search for two tags that are in your tag cloud... such as:
Notice that all the results are from Vox :)
That's a lot of page rank, Vox is pretty well interlinked.
Ha! Time to get to that rel attribute task. =)
Over some tasty spider and dragon rolls a fellow six apartee mentioned that he was recently added to the neighborhood of another six apartee, which he didn't know too well. He was kinda unsure of what to do.
Moving on to the dragon roll I mentioned that people treat privacy groups differently based upon their own preference. I use "friends" for anyone whom I have met and want to hear what they have to say. I'm saving family in the hopes that I can get more of my family sold on using Vox.... and then my neighborhood is for aquaintances and other people whom I'm interested in but that I'm not yet too close to.
Anyhow, he suggested the concept of having the ability to approve who is able to add you to their neighborhood/family/friends groups. Possibly not a setting that allowed you to choose whether you wanted to approve one-by-one or allow all or allow anyone who is a friend of your friends to friend you, etc.
Since for the most part, most people who "friend" you are people whom you would want to "friend" as well this wouldn't be such an issue.
To avoid the weird feelings regarding denying someone into your neighborhood, you could be required to submit a small note along with your request such that the person who you wish to add to your neighborhood would feel more comfortable and possibly persuaded to let you in!
Afterall, Vox is about sharing your safe happy fun neighborhood.
- I want the ability to view a list of assets that I have not read/see on Vox. Perhaps all those posted since I last logged in? I guess I wouldn't be wanting this if feeds were being sent correctly, but it may be useful to have some kind of a compact list with the last N assets(option to filter by type) from all Vox or specific group(hood, friends, family, combo).
- Viewer preference to set # assets per page.
- More blog side editing. I'd like to seed the control-strip expand (pushing the page content down) and revealing a compose panel or any other page in the app.
- Custom html allowed on in the bio. We'd have to do some kind of check to ensure that all tags are closed so that any poorly formatted html doesn't break the page.
- Support for more standards to make Vox compatable with as many products as possible.
So we've publicly broken ground on Vox today after a last minute bug fixing party and some research into culinary art of crack. Vox is now has over 450 members and will be growing slowly as more are invited.
I'm stoked that I can finally show this off to my friends. I'm inviting a few that would really have quite a bit to share on a regular basis. I'm looking forward to seeing how they use Vox and getting their feedback as first time bloggers.
One of the features of Comet that I like (as a Vox developer) is that all the templates are dynamic and share the same html structure. While this limits the creative ability of advanced users, it allows all users to take advantage of every new feature we release (we have many in the pipeline!) and allows the vox dev team the ability to contnually improve our templates. I'm looking forward to implementing microformats to make our member content more searchable.
Hat's off to all those on the Comet Vox Team
who've put in long hours to get us to this day. Here's looking forward to more fun ahead.
