Comments on: Social Blogging Platform Profy Launches in Alpha

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SocialTrend – Блогерская платформа Profy: вышла на финишную прямую — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:37:22 +0000

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[...] Social Blogging Platform Profy Launches in Alpha [...]

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:03:49 +0000

Well, we are listening to our initial users a lot and we sure will not add what people do not need. But some features people are accustomed to are missing from the current version - so we obviously will need to add lots of things. After all, Profy is not perfect - you yourself think the platform is promising

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:04:30 +0000

“the current functionality is about 20% of our roadmap so it is clear that we will add lots of things.” - first look is quite promising. but don’t add too much please.

By: Friedbeef

Friedbeef — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:08:15 +0000

Go go Svetlana!

By: randomwalker

randomwalker — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:29:14 +0000

Livejournal has been doing this for half a decade! Of course, livejournal has started to suck more and more recently, and their feedreader was never any good if you were heavily into rss. It’s interesting that livejournal was recently bought by a russian company.

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Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - Profy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:49:36 +0000

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By: Domain Length Requirement on Profy Alpha « The Pursuit of a Life

Domain Length Requirement on Profy Alpha « The Pursuit of a Life — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:20:44 +0000

[...] Profy Alpha Thought I’d give the new blogging platform Profy a try based on reviews by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch and Allen Stern at CenterNetworks. Using one of Allen’s invite codes, I got an invitation [...]

By: Dyde

Dyde — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:45:21 +0000

I like the name but how is this different than LiveJournal? Still, if it fails you can make money by selling the name.

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:34:20 +0000

First of all I wanted to thank all the people that wish us luck here. As a startup we certainly need luck but we are already lucky to get attention from the blogosphere.

I would also like to reply to some of the comments.

First of all: No, we do not want to be acquired by Google, thank you.

It is obvious that we have a long way to go from this alpha stage to the mass adoption stage. We have lots of features and ideas to implement. In fact, the current functionality is about 20% of our roadmap so it is clear that we will add lots of things. I would like to emphasize that Profy represents a platform actually with separate applications and we will definitely let the developers to create their own applications/plug-ins – without it no blogging platform could survive, that is what we are certain about.

Our aim is to eventually make this platform something that will create maximum possible value for any blogger. This is one of the reasons why we are launching at this early stage to enable all the early users have their say about what they want the final product to be. And definitely we will work with various existing solutions to integrate them into the platform so that people could continue to use what they are accustomed to use.

I would also like to thank all the Techcrunch readers that have requested invitations to Profy. I am approving them constantly (monitoring the state of our servers on ServePath not to crush them with your attention). You are all welcome and we will be looking forward to seeing you all on Profy.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:28:40 +0000

Well, at least their logo looks like Dan Cederholms stuff.

By: Pasquale

Pasquale — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:30:46 +0000

:S It looks very ugly, and web 2.0 glosswhorey..

By: ForJest

ForJest — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:40:36 +0000

Кокое всё красивое, кокое всё зилёнае!

By: Andrew Benton

Andrew Benton — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:11:16 +0000

This seems pretty interesting, I hope I get an invite so I can dive further into it.

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:04:13 +0000

Seems blogging is coming very close to social networking,

By: Alex Ion

Alex Ion — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:23:59 +0000

Looking good but who will exactly use them?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:47:57 +0000

Im an avid Techcrunch reader, and never commented before and this sounds cheesily familar…i know.

but….
If it just WAS original…..blogsource was offering the same ’social’ aspect (and admittedly no free creatable skins and completely walled in all data) before they sold it to lifejournal who killed it, friends did tongtong.com, local Beijing site with the same goal and a local focus and some innovative features a lot of AJAX and never quite reached release maturity (but was open anyways), it died 10 months ago (meaning its open, but abandoned “Resident Evil”-Style), im not sure but I think all the features existed in this bundle before in many incarnations, which would leave exactly one thing they do better than before:

PR?

Until they open up everything, its just an old story done again with very small fringe innovations….nothing to write on this great page about….was it the tickets?

By: Yakov

Yakov — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:38:10 +0000

Very good luck to another Russian start-up!

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:18:19 +0000

I think they must be hoping that the social aspect of their platform will get people signing up with them.

All in all I don’t think its a bad idea because at this stage somebody has to come with something different otherwise people will stick to established blogging platforms.

By: Amit Chowdhry

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:36:47 +0000

I don’t think this is a good move for Profy. To suddenly switch from a blog to a blogging platform shows that they’re willing to switch business models on a whim. I wonder if they’ll make Profy.com a Second World competitor next.

By: kelly wissink

kelly wissink — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:22:33 +0000

It’s great to see continued innovation in the blogging and social networking fields and how they will be integrated. It makes my job easier finding more niche markets.

Thanks,

Kelly

By: moreover

moreover — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:52:10 +0000

does anyone else besides me think it’s pretty funny that they’re calling a public release an “alpha”? perhaps someone in pr thought calling something “alpha” was more dominant than “beta.”

By: huangxiaojun

huangxiaojun — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:35:29 +0000

Google style……

By: collab'log

collab'log — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:34:23 +0000

I thought no one else was developing blog apps anymore. Good to find out otherwise. The more, the merrier. I mean, why should WordPress have all the fun?

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