I’m saddened to have to do this yet again, but today we’re saying our collective goodbyes to Graham Waldon, one of the longest-serving members of the Blogger team at Google. I was fortunate enough to have interviewed Graham before he joined us back in …
2007 has been Blogger’s most amazing year yet! As you’ll remember, we began it just after we had taken the new version of Blogger out of beta. Here’s a quick run-down of many of the fun things we did since then:Domain association and purchasingHindi tr…
Two fixes just went live, before we sign off for a brief holiday break:Unregistered commenters can once again provide an auto-linked URL [Help Group Thread]Images in the Header page element will no longer be cropped vertically [Help Group thread]We apo…
After just two short weeks of testing on Blogger in draft, OpenID commenting is now available for all Blogger blogs. This means that your friends and readers can leave authenticated comments on your blog using their blog URLs from OpenID-enabled servic…
AdSense recently introduced a feature called video units, that lets you include relevant YouTube video on your blog, and make money from ads on it. Here’s what they have to say about it:”We’re excited about the launch of video units — a new way to e…
Last night we pushed a small-but-crazy-useful new feature for all Blogger blogs: subscribing to comments via email. This makes it a lot easier to stay in the conversational loop after you’ve commented on a post somewhere. For example, you could follo…
From the Google Blog, a post you should all check out:When it comes to philanthropy, everyone’s got something different to give – some people have money, others have time, and bloggers have devoted readers. The creative folks at DonorsChoose have a…
Hey Firefox users! The folks at FoxyTunes just added Blogger support to their Firefox plugin, which you can use to do a number of things, such as:Control your favorite music-playing app from your browserSee what you’re currently listening toAppend yo…
You may have seen stories in the news recently about malware on Blogger, such has this one from the BBC or this one from Committee to Protect Bloggers. Blogger was not compromised. Instead, the blog posts are from bloggers whose machines were compromis…
Just wanted to bring your attention to a small yet nifty (and long-requested!) feature we recently added to Blogger’s AdSense integration: inline adsYou can now show AdSense ads inside your block of blog posts, up to 3 times on your main blog page. Thi…
FeedBurner users – we just added a feature for you. Matt’s post on the FeedBurner blog explains it more fully, but in short, you can now specify a URL to which Blogger will redirect your feed’s traffic. This means you’ll no longer have some subscribers…
As of today, the Polls feature has graduated from Blogger in Draft, and is now an official Page Element on www.blogger.com! Polls lets you add a poll to your blog’s sidebar, which your visitors can vote on and see results. This video shows how to creat…
Our friends at Twitter just released a nifty new web badge, which you can use to easily display your Twitter updates in your blog’s sidebar:http://twitter.com/badges/blogger(if you’re unfamiliar with Twitter, its FAQ states that, “Twitter is a communit…
Blogger in draft has some new features, if you’re keen to tinker with (and give us feedback on!) some in-development stuff. Notably:Polls, which you can add to your blog sidebarsEnclosures, which turn your blog feeds into pod/video-castsPete even poste…
You may have noticed a new dropdown menu in your Blogger Dashboard:In it are 17 new languages, in addition to the 19 that were there previously – tell your friends around the world! Here’s the list of new ones:българскиhrvatskiCatalàčeskyΕ