Vox is permanently closed?

They're permanently closed. A month or two ago. They decided earlier in the year that it wasn't worth their while keeping it open, gave all the subscribers/users/members a few months' notice, and that was it.

Nor am I. I didn't consider Vox to have been part of "Web 2.0", though ... :confused:

I agree. I am not too sure what the whole web2.0 stuff means either, which is why I have not really "gotten in to it". But I decided to get my feet wet for 2011, so I am warming up! :-)

I still think its way too time consuming, but I invested in the WP syndicator plugin which is supposed to help build backlinks to these sites with the push of a button. I am busy experimenting with that now. That is why I "only now" discovered that Vox is closed. Vox is one of the 15 sites in the plugin we re supposed to sign up for.

Do they not understand the backlinks I have on Vox are vital to my interwebz domination?

They need to get that site back up n' running... pronto!

I thought I had "messed" up somewhere in the sign-up process and ended up getting that "vox is closed" message. It's kinda odd that a site like that would "close". I wonder what the story is there. It seems lots of IM-ers used that site, so it was popular enough.

"Backlink Decay".... I like that!

I can see now why it makes sense to have an ongoing plan/strategy for backlinking, its never a "done" deal. If you are building links continually, from a variety of sources, there is no need to "panic" when some links "decay". Good tip!

Vox was a web 2.0 site and it's a shame they have closed. I used them as one of my blog sites for backlinking to my main sites. I just hope that too many others don't follow in their footsteps.

Sadly, it would seem so. That said, I did love vox. Perhaps now that bandwidth is no longer so expensive, some one will try to revive em. It was quite a platform for me. Oh well, link rot lives on.

I was just makin' a funny.

Now, interscope records closing down their spam farms... that was a killer for me. My days are empty now that I can no longer spam lady gaga and snoop dog blogs.

As I visit local businesses, I get this question quite often. Here is how I define this term...

In the beginning of the world wide web, sites were generally single pages with information and pictures on them. While there may have been a few links to other sites or from other sites, the main focus was on a single set of pages on one domain. Yahoo was the dominant search engine because it focused on website content. This was essentially Web 1.0.

Soon, people realized the full power of the web to inter-connect their sites and it became more and more important to have a full range of inter-linked pages which would link back to the main web page. Google became the leading search engine because they focused on this linking structure as a way of determining the importance of a web page and so did the viewing public. If they could find links and comments about your website on other websites, then there is a certain "trust factor" that is established. This I defined as Web 2.0 and as such Vox was very much a Web 2.0 site.

So what is Web 3.0? This is essentially an internet where the webpage and a standard internet connection (that is reached thru a computer) may become more and more irrelevant. Web pages are still important, but people trust other sites like Facebook and they are interacting via cell phones that are connected to the internet.

I certainly know that there is more to all of this than what I have explained above, but this is my attempt at simplifying these terms to help my clients understand what they need to be doing with their website marketing. It may help others to understand these terms.

I would love to hear how others describe these terms and the ways in which the internet has changed of the past few years.

Just my 2 cents
PhilG