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We initially reviewed blogging platform Profy on their closed alpha launch in January. This week at the Web 2.0 Expo, Profy has moved into beta (though still private??). Louis Gray has an extensive review of the updates.

Profy sits in the middle between using Blogger and creating your own blog. There’s a powerful RSS reader, startpage and a variety of blogging tools to make the blogging process more advanced than what Blogger can offer. Since it was built by bloggers for bloggers, it should help to cure some of the pain points of using other blogging tools. The tough part will be on the marketing and user adoption side. Converting has very high switching costs, perhaps Profy needs to go after the new user market first and gain adoption there.

I asked founder Svetlana Gladkova about her experience at Web 2.0 Expo. She said, "Web 2.0 Expo is an awesome place to publicly announce a product and people constantly stop by our booth and ask what Profy is about and when we explain to them, they all get really excited and that’s what makes us absolutely happy. I can hardly write down all the suggestions for the platform people have made – they all have something in mind that could make their blogging even more flexible a process than we currently make it. Now the only thing we have to do is decide which of these suggestions to focus on – and then code them."

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