Today is a
very big day for the entire Profy team as we are launching Profy beta at the Web 2.0 Expo
in San Francisco.
So first of all I would like to thank all our alpha users for their valuable
feedback and for helping us bring Profy to the next level. We know perfectly
well that we are not building Profy for ourselves – it is your blogging
platform and your opinion and your wishes matter the most here so we are still
looking forward to hearing from you to know where we should take Profy in its
further development.
You might
want to know what changes we have introduced today? So first of all we have
focused on improving and stabilizing the current functionality. We have fixed
all the bugs our alpha users helped us find and improved the platform’s
performance in general so it works faster and more reliably now.
And,
obviously, there are some new features added as well:
Crossposting:
You can now
use your Profy blog to manage your blogs even if they are not based on Profy –
we have made it possible for you to crosspost your Profy posts to your blogs on
Blogger and Livejournal. Sure enough, more platforms coming soon so stay tuned
as we are working hard to make Profy your real one-stop platform for blogging.
Tagging
people:
Even in
alpha you could use tags to identify posts in your own blog and in your feed
reader. Now we take tagging on Profy to the new level – you can tag your
friends on Profy to organize them and to make it easier for yourself to find
people when you want to contact them privately, for example.
Modifications
to the top panel on your blogs:
We have
modified a lot the top panel you see when you view your own blog or blogs by
other users. Now it is possible to report spam blogs or blogs with otherwise
inappropriate content. You can also login easier to your own dashboard using
this top panel and new users can create their own blogs when they like what they
find on your blog, for example.
Subscription
to blogs written by your friends:
We have
changed the process of subscribing to blogs created by your Profy friends – you
will now be able to choose if you actually want to read your friend’s blog.
Invitations:
While we
have significantly reduced waiting time for invitations approvals (in fact, we
have enabled them to be approved automatically unless the servers experience
the load they can’t cope with), we decided that we were not perfectly ready for
open registration yet (we simply did not want our current users to experience
downtime while the new bloggers arrive). But all the current and new users
receive 5 invitations to invite their friends to Profy by email so if you want
to share your Profy experience with your friends, feel free to do so now – your
friends will be let in immediately and they won’t have to wait for their
invites to be approved.
So again,
thank you for being with us from the very beginning, we will be looking forward
to hearing your feedback. Happy blogging
Comment posted by Svetlana Gladkova
at 5/6/2008 10:17:21 PM
Hi Michael,
First of all, thank you for being a Profy user, I appreciate your interest.
I will try to publish a post with the detailed instructions on posting
from Profy to Blogger and Livejournal in the next few days (I’m still
trying to sort out all the things after the conference).
In the meanwhile the hints briefly: when you link the account on Profy
with your Blogger blog, don’t forget to choose ‘Enable crossposting’
for this blog (you will need to authorize Profy to send posts to your
Blogger.com blog first using the link in “Click here to authorize your account”). When the accounts are linked in this manner, when you publish any post to your Profy blog, it is sent to your Blogger blog as well.
If it does not work, do please let me know and I’ll try to figure out a reason since it could well be a bug somewhere. Thank you!
Comment posted by Michael Pekker
at 5/6/2008 8:49:31 PM
Dear Svetlana,
I am a new Profy user. Can you please give some hints how can I post from Profy to Blogger. I have connected my sites already, but could not find on the post interface a button or related link.
Thanks.
