Here is what eHub editor Matthew Murphy (and I am proud he is one of our early users as well) had to say about some of the Profy features:

I have a feature question. I read your most recent blog post and found some content that I wanted to capture and comment on in my own Profy blog. I hit the Blog It! button at the bottom of the post and it took your post and posted it to my own Profy blog. There was no reference or credit given to your blog, it simply looks like I created the post on my own blog. I'm wondering about ownership issues here. If I Blog It! someone's Profy post, shouldn't it be apparent somewhere that I am quoting that person's post?

Also, is there a way to capture something from the web or from the Profy community directly into a blog post? A 'blog this' bookmarklet of some kind? If I see something on the web, whats the best way to get it into my Profy blog post?

As for the ‘Blog it’ feature, your comment proves that we have a usability problem here as you are the second user reporting on it.

Location of the Blog It! button in your feed reader

The thing is when you use ‘Blog It!’ function on someone else’s post, it actually pastes the text to your own post and adds a link to this post below the text (Source):

Source link as it appears when you use 'Blog It!'

But I believe the link is not enough since wo users have already reported that they can’t see any accreditation so I believe we should both make the ‘Source’ link more visible (bold maybe?) and possibly use Indent to show the quotation. Maybe it would also be a good idea to add the name of the blog (or title of the blog post you use) instead of the Source link. I hope such measures will improve the situation and people will see the accreditation better after that. But if you (and by you I mean any Profy user reading this post, of course) have other ideas, I will appreciate you sharing them in the comments below so that we knew what the community opinion is.

As for sharing something you find on the web, we do not have any bookmarklet for this – so it is only possible to share anything you find in the feeds you are subscribed to with the ‘Blog it’ feature again.

But the idea of a special bookmarklet is awesome and I think it will be a great addition to the blogging tools we have now. This way you will be able to share anything you find on the web in your Profy blog. We will start coding browser tools very soon so that users could easily subscribe to feeds right from their browsers. And building a special bookmarklet to share absolutely any page on your Profy blog is a great idea we will definitely use. Thank you!