Thanks Twitter (no matter how much time it is down it still helps me track many interesting things people say about Profy) I have just stumbled at a great post by Hank Williams titled Disqus And Profy – First Step To Totally Portable Blogging. And this pretty humorous post made me realize one thing: with the existing blogging tools bloggers often feel like they are in jail.

Why? It’s simple: because the existing platforms do not allow bloggers actually handle their content like their own. And Hank actually mentions Profy as one of the two things that will help the bloggers get out of the jail.

So I wanted to write the post here to actually confirm that yes, we are really planning to help you do all the things related to your blogging activities in one place, no matter what tools they currently use. The first step in this direction from us is crossposting to other blogging platforms that I recently described in detail on this blog. But in addition to enabling you publish from here to as many blogs as you want to, we are definitely going to enable you to import all the content from your existing blogs to Profy (and eventually export should you want to move anywhere else, obviously).

Unfortunately, we are unable to roll out everything we want so much to do right now so it will take some time to implement. But the good part about Profy is that it is so new that it depends on our bloggers where exactly we will take the platform. We are building the platform for you so remember, we listen when you ask for something – like in this particular case. We used to guess that some people may need such functionality, but now we are sure – and we will make it real.

UPDATE: The post has just been published on Silicon Alley Insider so feel free to join the discussion there as well.