Blogger and Google Reader are throwing a party at South by South West and you’re invited! We’ll be debuting a very special feature at the party, so come celebrate with the Blogger and Google Reader teams. Drinks, food, tunes, swag, and good times will …
By Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineer (Krakow, Poland) A while back, Google announced that they were shutting down Google Page Creator and offered users the option to upgrade to Google Sites. In the past, some custom template designers used Page Cre…
Contribute Gadgets to Blogger
(cross posted from Blogger In Draft) Calling all Developers! We’ve just launched several extensions to the Gadget API that will enable developers to build more relevant and engaging gadgets for Blogger.As you may already know, every Blogger blog is a g…
Going to be in Austin, Texas for South By Southwest? Blogger is! And we’re throwing a party with our friends from Google Reader. Come, drink, and talk blogs.Party is at Six Lounge (117 W 4th St @ Colorado) on Sunday, March 15th from 10pm – 1am. Bring y…
As some of you might know, AOL has recently decided to sunset its AOL Journals service. To help Journals users continue to share their thoughts online, Blogger has built a simple migration tool to move an AOL Journal to Blogger. We’d like to welcome ou…
Blogger Following for All
A few posts ago we let you know about Blogger Following. The feature lets readers publicly subscribe to your blog (so you know who’s reading) and adds a Reading List to your Blogger Dashboard so readers can stay updated with the blogs they follow.Now i…
Blogger Babies
Babies are all the buzz at Blogger. Within the last few months we’ve had three new additions to the Blogger Team: Ryan, Aditya, and Haley. Although it’ll probably be a few years before they start sounding off themselves, we get to post some cute pics o…
You knew that already, and now we do too. We have now restored all accounts that were mistakenly marked as spam yesterday. (See: Spam Fridays)We want to offer our sincerest apologies to affected bloggers and their readers. We’ve tracked down the prob…
A few months ago, we announced a new web authoring tool called Knol. Well, today we’ve announced its public launch, and we wanted to tell you a little bit more about it and how you might use it to complement your blog. Blogs are great for quickly and …
Updates and Fixes for July 18th
Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger:Blogger is now available in Malay! Blogger has a large base of users in Malaysia and we are excited to now bring them Blogger in their native language.Comment moderation can n…
Show off your favorite blogs with a Blog List
Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your…
With GrandCentral, a free service from Google, you can receive phone calls and post voicemails right on your blog. Though GrandCentral is currently in a private beta test, bloggers can skip the wait and get a free account immediately. Sign up nowWebCal…