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KnightKnetwork — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:50:21 -0000

Hi Louis,

Thought you might be interested in the interview with Svetlana that I posted today. Thanks for the detailed post it helped me direct some of the questions:

http://knightknetwork.com/2...

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svetlana — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:39:00 -0000

Louis,

Thank you so much for such a detailed and absolutely awesome review! That's just amazing how you grabbed everything about Profy and explained it in such a clear form. I really appreciate your attention to Profy.

One small think I wanted to mention about Profy status was actually this is not a particularly closed beta. We have invitations to be requested as a kind of safety precaution for ourselves - the invites are approved automatically unless the servers experience too heavy a load. And if they do, we just extend the waiting time a little. But we are letting everyone in so it's almost open (we just don't want the current users to experience problems while new users flow in). And those people you send invites to will be let in absolutely immediately. Unfortunately there's no functionality to add some more invitations to an individual account but everyone requesting the invite with the keywords Louis Gray in the description will be let in manually ASAP even if the waiting list is long.

Again, thanks a lot for such an incredibly positive review and it was a real pleasure meeting you today.

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fourlittlebees — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:45:00 -0000

Louis, thanks for the great write-up. You have some excellent feedback in there and I'll make sure that the team sees it. (I'm still on East Coast time, so am the first one up every day!)

For anyone wanting a beta invite, you can visit the site at Profy.com and click the beta image link. I believe it should automatically send you an invite when you enter your information. If you have trouble with that, shoot me an email at c.aleo-carreira@profy.com or contact Svetlana at s.gladkova@profy.com and we'll hop on it as quickly as possible. I'm glad so many people find it interesting!

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Charlie Anzman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:48:00 -0000

Really interesting piece. What I don't get at all, unless it's a calculated 'give' by Google, is why they don't add Wordpress like features?? The WYSIWYG interface that you and I both use is fine but they could own the blogosphere in a heartbeat? Their own employees (Matt Cutts, etc.) use Wordpress. There's gotta be politics playing of some sort here (or anti-trust??). I find it disappointing on the outside looking in.

PS: Send me some Schwag from Web 2.0 :)

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Franklin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:06:00 -0000

I would like to try. fpettit [at] gmail. Thanks.

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socialprofilr.com — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:49:00 -0000

Hi Louis,

could I get one of those accounts for profy?

thanks

Azzam
contact@socioclick.com

Got Social Network Profiles? Expose yourself
www.socialprofilr.com

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Gabriel N. — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:34:00 -0000

Hey Louis,

Thanks for the write-up about Profy. I've played around with many different RSS readers and have finally settled with BlogLines.

I started with desktop RSS readers which worked out well but I wanted my feeds to be accessible online. So then I started using Google Reader, but found it sluggish and slow. It also chewed up my RSS feeds and a whole whack of them were lost.

I like the concept of having a fully integrated tool set that lets you read, blog, comment, interact with other people, all within one space.

It'll be interesting to see how they pull it off. If they open things up and allow feeds/content from say Twitter and other services that would be interesting.

I think for me, the bottom line is being able to set things up according to my reading/surfing/browsing/communication habits. Customization will be key.

It'll definitely be worth checking out to see how they are pulling it together.

Thanks.
gcn(at)yahoo.com

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Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:00 -0000

Hi Louis, Can I get a beta account of Profy? chang1.kim@gmail.com