Step Away From Your Computer

Okay, show of hands — how many of you have had the best moments of your life happen in front of a computer monitor? (Those of you with your hands up — that’s sad. Please stop reading now.)

For the rest of us, real life, the kind of things we want to remember, happen when we’re out and about, spending time with our friends and family or out in our neighborhood. And hey: Friends, Family, Neighborhood — that’s exactly what Vox is about.

As a lot of people have noted, Vox isn’t just blogging, it’s blogging enhanced by the power of a smart social network. But if your social network doesn’t work when you’re not sitting in front of your computer, your social network doesn’t work.

That’s a pretty big problem for us — we want everybody to be able to connect and share and blog with the people they care about. So we have been working with our friends at Nokia for a few years to improve the experience. And today, we are extremely excited to announce a huge step forward for Vox, for Nokia, for mobile blogging, and for you actually being able to share and record your life while on the go.

Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Nokia announced a bunch of sexy new thin phones. But while the press releases and gadget blogs will cover the tech specs of megapixels and memory cards, we think the biggest milestone is that the new Nseries phones will let you connect directly to your personal blog on Vox. Vox is now Nokia’s global partner for blogging and video sharing.

This is great news for our entire Vox community — your family members who’ve never blogged, or your friends who don’t want to sit down in front of the computer just to send you that video clip, can now just access Vox directly from their phone.

Best of all, this works for existing Nseries phones, not just the new ones announced today. So there are millions of people who can use Vox on the go today, and millions more who can join them in the future. Vox is free, and the Vox client for Nokia phones is free, so all you need to do is sign up to get started.

So now we need your help. We’re going to keep doing whatever we can to bring the potential and excitement of blogging to as many people as possible, and we’ll partner with whomever we can to make sure it’s simple and accessible. And we’ll ask you to explain to your friends and family that blogging is something that can change their lives for the better, helping you stay in touch and make connections that couldn’t happen any other way. And even better, blogging can happen from wherever you are.

Want to find out more? Check out the Vox - Nokia Nseries information page, which includes a video introduction to the new features, descriptions of the newly-announced Nokia Nseries phones, and a link to download a settings file if you already have an Nseries phone.

Some more resources:

• Sign up for Vox — it’s free
• Information about Vox on Nokia Nseries phones
• The press release from Six Apart and Nokia

And stay tuned the rest of this week — as the Consumer Electronics Show rolls on, we’ll have more info from our Six Apart team in Las Vegas.