by Vardhman Jain, Software Engineer, Mountain ViewLatency is a word you hear a lot at Google. We are always looking for ways to make our products faster, because we have consistently found that faster page loads mean more satisfied users. This post is …
Earlier today, word spread about some popular music blogs that were recently removed from Blogger. While we make it a policy to not publicly discuss individual users or their accounts, we wanted to clarify a few things about how and when Blogger enforc…
Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of ou…
Like many of you, we watched in horror as news emerged from Haiti about yesterday’s disastrous earthquake. For those of you who publish your blog with Blogger, we built a couple of widgets that make it easy to invite your readers to contribute money to…
Earlier this year we simplified the process for monetizing your blog by adding a “Monetize” tab in the Blogger app. We started with AdSense, which allows you to add contextual advertising to your pages; more recently we added AdSense for Feeds to h…
Have opinions about Blogger? If so, we’d like to meet you. We are looking for participants willing to document their blogging practices over a few weeks and answer some interview questions. This will help us better understand your needs and keep improv…
Guest Post by Caroline Vanderlip, SharedBook CEOTo continue Blogger’s 10th anniversary celebration, I’m delighted to announce that Blog2Print has now partnered with Blogger. Blog2Print lets you publish some or all of your posts and photos as a profe…
Guest Post by Will Price, CEO of WidgetboxIn honor of Blogger’s 10 birthday, all of us at Widgetbox are excited to announce a partnership with Blogger that allows you to quickly and easily turn your blog into a widget. Whether you want to add your b…
by Ross Peter Nelson, Software Engineer, Google CalendarDo you have an event you’d like to invite your readers to? Thanks to Blogger Gadgets, this is now a piece of cake. Click the Customize link in the toolbar, and go to the …
Guest Postby Joe Marchese, SocialVibe CEOIn honor of Blogger’s 10th anniversary, we are excited to announce that you can now use your blogs to create positive, measurable social change. By adding the SocialVibe gadget to your blog, you’ll be turning br…
Earlier this year, a number of our users complained about their experience on the receiving end of a DMCA complaint. Much commentary at the time focused on claims that we were removing blog posts at the behest of music labels, that we were not notifyin…
by Brian Shih, Google Reader TeamIf you use Google Reader to keep track of all the interesting Blogger blogs you’re following, you might have run across something you really wanted to share on your blog. With Reader’s new Send To feature, we’…
Periodically, we profile a Blogger partner that can add functionality to your blog. This week we’d like to spotlight Lijit, a company building “search powered web applications for publishers” (that’s you!). Lijit has made adding its “wijit” as easy as …
Image by chucks via FlickrWe’re always looking for tools to make blogging easier, and a number of us on the Blogger team have become big fans of Zemanta. Zemanta is a browser plug-in for Firefox and IE, and is available as a bookmarklet for Chrome and …
Many of you have asked about Blogger templates. You’ve posted in the help forums, you’ve tweeted, one of our engineers actually got stopped in a coffee shop to talk about Blogger’s classic templates. And by “classic” we mean “old”. We found that many o…