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Profy Launches Blogger Platform – We’ve Got Invites
Web 2.0 blog Profy is announcing the Alpha launch of their blogging platform today. From what I can tell, it’s more like a blogging platform + a blogger dashboard/mini-startpage.
The startpage comes from a feedreader, network and inbox tools. From my basic testing, the blogging tool is more robust than I expected. It is cleaner than say Wordpress and the dashboard is easier to manage as each part of the blog (comments, posts, messages and feeds) show up and you can take action on any item directly.
I’d suggest it could compete with tools including Squarespace rather than Wordpress or MoveableType.
From our conversation, "Profy’s vision is to provide single, comprehensive seamless access and friendly navigation for the many stages of the blogging process – news reading, sharing selected news stories with a group of readers, writing posts and publishing them, discussing posts with readers, and communicating with readers on other topics. In short, it wants to provide — in one place — all the creative tools a blogger could want. Notable among the capabilities are an integrated dashboard with full-featured reader making it easy for bloggers to follow important events, an advanced WYSIWYG editor that turns the publishing process into a snap, and social networking tools that allow authors to engage in discussions with readers."
I don’t know how they handle spam or domain names (you use a xyz.profy.com now) as of yet but it does look like it might be worth a try for a basic blogger.
If you’d like an invite, visit http://alpha.profy.com/getinvite and in the ‘Description’ field type ‘CenterNetworks’. They have provided 100 invites for CN readers.
Here’s a screenshot of the blogging entry screen:
but everyone tells a new parent that their kid is cute even if he or she isn’t :)
the only ones you need to worry about liking your product are your customers. but i do understand what you mean.
We do believe in our product because if you don’t there’s no sense in developing anything and generating buzz about it. But naturally we were worried about what others will think of it. You know, when you love your child you are sure he or she is the best and most talented child in the world. But other parents may well think otherwise ;)
But our customers are actually bloggers themselves so the initial reaction from bloggers was extremely important to us. And this is why we are so happy about the initial feedback and reviews from the blogosphere.
Svetlana - you gotta believe in your product :) – don’t worry about the blogosphere so much – your users are in the mainstream. And you are welcome – thanks for saying my review was professional – I really try hard each day!
Allen, I wanted to thank you for this excellent coverage of the Profy alpha. Before I saw your review, I expected to have more negative impression on the blogosphere but after it I was very relieved.
Besides, I wanted to say that at the moment you are 100% right about one thing – Profy platform will suit the basic bloggers as it is today. But in the future as we add more and more advanced features, I hope we will be able to get more experienced bloggers in as well.
Again, thanks a lot for your time testing the platform and for the professionally-written review.
I can confirm that this post was published several hours earlier than the one on Techcrunch – I watched it closely, of course as I wanted to know which blogs would cover our alpha release.
Uhm – you do realize my story was live 4 hours before the TC story was? So perhaps if anything, they copied mine but I doubt it.
Man, how come you dupe the TechCrunch headlines with your own story, and then backpost on TC with ‘your version’.
You write well, but maybe you should be a bit more original on the topic or something.
For once I liked your coverage better than TechCrunch.
ok – should i be happy or sad by that comment? :)
Yeah this one was first, I half expected the TC article to reference this one as it was done afterwards.
How is this more closely a Squarespace competitor than other publishing platforms — or am I misreading that? I’d actually argue the opposite — as we tend to branch away from just blogging towards other sorts of content above and beyond those other platforms.