Today we released something for Blogger that we’ve long wanted to do – an experimental version of the site where the early adopters among you can try out new features before they’re ready for full release. We’re calling it Blogger in draft because the …
Attention Videobloggers!A few of us from the Blogger team will be attending the first-ever Pixelodeon Fest next weekend, at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.If you’ll be going, we’d love to chat with you! Here’s a description of the festival …
Now that Blogger’s on fresh, solid ground, our engineering team is cranking full-steam ahead on lots of exciting new features! But we’ve got a classic problem that comes with growth – there’s too much to do, and too few people to do it all.Therefore, w…
Anyone interested in hacking on Blogger’s API should check out the freshly-updated Blogger Data API Developer Guide. It has sections covering development in several of the available client libraries, including Java, .NET and Python. For questions and d…
Today’s Notable Blog is our One Thousandth – hurrah! For the curious, this Buzz post delightfully tells of Blogs of Note’s history; in Ev’s words it’s: “a simple, ongoing, irregularly updated list of blogs [we]‘ve happened to come across and found inte…
Thanks to our friends from the Ajax Search API team, we now have two more fun and useful widgets you can add to your new Blogger blog: Newsreel and Video Bar:The Newsreel searches Google News for your chosen keywords and displays an ever-updating list …
Ever wanted to see all the photos you’ve uploaded to your blog in one place? Head over to Picasa Web Albums and now you can! We’ve been working closely with the Picasa team on this project – all the photos you’ve uploaded since December will appear in …
Post by T.V. Raman, Google Research ScientistFrom The Everything Can Be Done In Emacs Dept…Blogger exposes a clean API based on Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and Google Data APIs (GData). This Emacs module leverages this functionality to enable one …
Attention blog searchers: if you use Google Blog Search from within Blogger, you’ll notice some slight changes to its look and feel – it was just updated today to be more consistent with the Google styling, and it tested much better in the usability la…
The folks at Cordless/WMG recently launched three awesome Blogger-powered blogs for their bands Dangerous Muse, Throw the Fight and Die Mannequin. Aside from their fantastic designs, they’ve done a number of neat-o template integrations with other Goog…
A fellow Googler just let us know that her friend Aaron is currently blogging his Peace Corps experience from Togo, West Africa. In his own words:”Take a peak at the trials and tribulations of a techie in Togo at aaroninafrica.blogspot.com. It’s the st…
If you happen to be a foodie, and enjoy reading foodie books, you’ve probably got a copy of On Food and Cooking somewhere on a nearby bookshelf. It’s written by a wonderful man named Harold McGee, who just happens to hang out here at Google every now a…
From the Google Blog:You might have noticed from the Google homepage that today is World AIDS Day. We want to remember all those who have suffered from HIV/AIDS in the 25 years since it was first identified, and we want to support everyone working to e…
This morning’s push marks a huge milestone for the version of Blogger in Beta – it’s finally feature complete! Aside from its interface being available in French, Italian, German or Spanish (with more languages on the way), you can now publish blogs vi…
There’s a saying in the software industry — it’s always good to eat your own dog food. Wikipedia has a great article about this:”… the company has not merely considered the value of the product for consumers (that is, whether the dog will eat the do…