On this day in 1999, Pyra Labs launched Blogger which Ev announced on his own blog. As you can see, Blogger was quite the looker back then.From those humble roots, a bloggerish forest has grown. And a lot of what we continue to build today is informed…
Thanks very much to everyone who has submitted feedback thus far on the new Blogger in beta! I wanted to give an update on: migration, login problems and more features.1) MigrationThe biggest thing we’ve heard thus far is “When can I get it!” Believe m…
Today we’re launching a new version of Blogger in beta! You’ve been asking for ways to do more with your blog, and you can with this new release. With the beta you can:Categorize your posts with labelsControl who can read your blogChange the appearance…
A while back we mentioned that we’ve been working with Sony Ericsson to incorporate blogging into their new generation of cameraphones. Well, the k800 has started to hit the market and our friends in Sweden have a helpful graphic to explain how it all…
It has been widely reported that Internet users across India are being blocked from accessing a number of blog hosting sites, including Blog*Spot. We are disappointed and a bit puzzled by these reports. We are also working to understand the situation,…
Alex Epstein has a cool blog about screenwriting in which he gives advice, talks about what he’s working on and recently tackled the most important question of our time: Why did Serenity fail to succeed in the box office?Team Blogger has much love for …
Congrats to Blogger user F-train for winning the World Poker Blogger Tour 2006 Summer Tournament this past weekend in Vegas. I’ve been digging on poker blog scene for a while now and was stoked to see the number of folks rocking it on Blog*Spot. Some …
Chelsea Peretti is funny lady who likes pictures of cheese (judging by her blog, anyway). I also recommend her latest video, Roadtrip.
Great article in Wired News about how homeless folks can use blogging to reach out and express themselves online. I never thought about how important it would be to get homeless people email access, but it makes obvious sense when you realize that the…
There should be more fictional blogging. As a guide I suggest you check out Jean-Luc Picard’s blog:A vital part of engineering has broken down on the Enterprise.It’s the laundry machine.Maybe we should implement a stardate option for date headers …
We’re doing some user studies about how folks work with photos online. To participate you must:live in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica or the surrounding areapost photos online We are looking for all levels of users to take part in this study and will p…
The NYT has a good article about senior citizen bloggers that includes interviews with Blogger users Mort Reichek and Milt Rebmann.Quoth the Times:While the 65-plus age range is notoriously tech-shy, many say that the blog-hosting companies make it sim…
As others have noted, we’ve made good progress in the past six months in reducing the amount of spam on Blog*Spot. One of the tools we’re using is an automatic spam classifier. The risk in using a classifier is that we will mistakenly identify good co…
Channel 4 in UK has launched a site called 121 for fostering dialogue between paired sets of folks, one in the UK and one in another country. It’s like a public penpal session written in blog format. For example, their first blog is written by Steve -…
Last Friday, Inside Google posted about a Blog*Spot user who had allegedly received an email from Blogger that stated the MSN Search box on his blog constituted a violation of Blogger’s Terms of Service. I’d like to clarify a couple of points about th…