As most of you probably already know, Vox, the new community blogging service from Six Apart, Ltd recently launched strong with a huge push of promotion. While many may think it was produced to battle popular blogging services like Blogger and WordPress, it has actually been developed and promoted as a community service, but there’s one major problem, it does nothing to blend in with the communities already in place.

Vox offers many cool features like Photos, Books, Audio, Videos, and more, and at first glance you’d expect all of these cool features to be organized by outside services like Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, Last.fm, Purevolume, etc. But instead of using some simple API code to integrate all of these services Vox took extra time to develope their own services, a major mistake.

I signed up today thinking that Vox would be some great new service, that I’d be able to have all of my photos and music on my blog in a matter of minutes. Damn, was I surprised when I saw not a single aggregation option, not a one. What this means is that even if you’ve been using services like Flickr for years, all of that goes to waste if you’re looking to have all of your media on your blog. You’d have to reupload each and every picture, link, song, eBook, etc.

Honestly, just because of this inability to blend, Vox, to me is a horrible service, and you’re better off simply modifying your WordPress blog to display all of your links and data.

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