September 2nd, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’re very happy to announce today that Blogger now has a home on the iPhone. The team behind BlogPress (a popular app already available in the iPhone App Store) decided to build a free version of BlogPress just for Blogger users to celebrate Blogger’s…
August 28th, 2009 | by Talin | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Talin, Software Engineer, Blogger (Mountain View, CA) It’s fitting that our newest birthday present was announced first on Twitter. Starting yesterday, the Blogger Navbar includes a new button: “Share.”When your readers are on your blog’s home page,…
August 26th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
August 25th, 2009 | by Wiktor Gworek | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineer, Blogger (Krakow, Poland)In April, we announced that we wanted to hear from you about your wish list for features in Blogger. Many of you said that the label gadget should be more flexible. Today we are rolling out t…
August 20th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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’…
August 18th, 2009 | by John | published in Google Blogger Buzz
When you publish a public blog post, you want to share it with the world—immediately! Blogger helps by feeding your posts to subscribers all over the web. Unfortunately, while we really want things to be as speedy as possible, sometimes it can take a…
August 3rd, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Tweeting your new blog posts is a great way to engage your readers, and something that many on the team have taken advantage of for our own blogs. An easy way to do this is through Twitterfeed, which automatically updates Twitter with each new blog po…
July 8th, 2009 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
(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…
July 6th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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 …
June 10th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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 …
June 4th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
June 1st, 2009 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we’re bringing the Search Box gadget out of Blogger in Draft and making it available to everyone. With this gadget, your readers will be able to search not just your posts, but web pages linked from your blog, your blog list, and link lists.To …
May 5th, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Two weeks ago we asked for your feedback about what you’d like to see on Blogger, and you’ve responded overwhelmingly! Since we opened the Product Ideas forum, we’ve received over 60,000 votes from 2500 users on 1500 different suggestions. We’re very i…
May 5th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Bloggers who rely on our FTP service to publish their blog to their own domain had a rough week last week. In fact, it’s been a bumpy month or two. Let’s start with the most important comment on this state of affairs: this sucks, and we’re sorry.(Note:…
May 4th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Chris Lambert, Software Engineer, Google MobileIf you ask people why they blog, a lot of the answers you receive will probably center around the idea of starting conversations. I love talking with friends and family about the countries I’ve visited …