Congratulations to Frank Warren, whose 4th PostSecret book, A Lifetime of Secrets, comes out today and is climbing up the Amazon bestseller charts (it’s #50 as of this writing)!Take a look at its trailer:PostSecret is by far one of the most interesti…
Today we’re pleased to launch Blogger Play, a neat little toy we’ve cooked up to show you photos and blog posts as you’ve never seen them before.Image credit: kiwiswedenShortly after Blogger launched photo uploading two years ago, one of our engi…
Today marks Blogger’s eighth birthday! A time for reflection, a time to catch our breath from yesterday morning, and a time to break out the baby picture.Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the past four-fifths of a decade, and thanks especi…
By coincidence, a pair of stellar blogging clients have seen major updates in the past several days. If you like using Blogger but have browser-o’-phobia, one of these might be right for you:The Windows Live Writer team has released Beta 2 of their s…
Our friend Ryanne has been asking us for an easy way to add an image to her blog’s header for a few months now. When we added the feature a few weeks back, she was excited enough to create a screencast to teach everyone how to do it:Also, a plug: Blo…
You can help us out and make money just by using Blogger! From time to time at Blogger we run usability studies to make sure that we’re on the right track with all the new features we’re working on.If playing with Blogger for an hour or so and maki…
Today we’re adding autosaving of draft posts to the Blogger post editor. Now you don’t have to feel so bad about browser crashes, random laptop restarts, or that hamster vs. gerbil war going on behind your desk that keeps knocking your power cord out o…
Today at Blogger HQ we accomplished one of our most significant milestones ever: we changed old Blogger’s monitoring from “page us when it goes down” to “page us if it comes back to life in a horrifying, zombie state.”Most of you probably hav…
Our friends Anupama and Nitin have posted on the Google blog about the Hindi transliteration feature that they added to Blogger:Enabling the transliteration option allows you to type out Hindi words using phonetically equivalent English script, and see…
Here at Blogger we believe that everyone all over the world should be able to express themselves online. When our attempt to translate into “love” (a supposedly universal language) failed, we decided to take the more effective route of translating …
The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival/conference/hipsterstravaganza starts this weekend! If you’re going, or just happen to be around Austin, TX for kicks or livelihood, make sure that you party with us on Sunday.Drinks are on Blogger (also dancing)…
The new version of Blogger in beta is dead!Long live the new version of Blogger!(P.S. The old version of Blogger is not dead, but it would like to retire for a little while… maybe go to Hawaii or play World of Warcraft all day? It begs you to let it …
Just before the weekend we added the final piece to the transition from old Blogger to the new Blogger in beta: members of team blogs can now switch to the new Blogger. This is the last step before we take the new Blogger out of beta.Team blogs move wh…
Eric Case, of Blogger and Google Developer Relations, chatted with noted videobloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson about videoblogging, the history and future of Blogger, and the “changing engines in midflight” that is moving to the new version of…
Today we’re saying goodbye to Steve Jenson, who is leaving Blogger and Google. SteveJ — seen here with his backing band — has worked on Blogger, first at Pyra and then at Google, for the past five years: coding it, fixing it, keeping it alive, an…