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 …
April 14th, 2009 | by Henry | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Our newest graduate from the Blogger in Draft testing ground improves the experience of blogging on the go. In this release, we’ve updated the Dashboard to simplify setting up email and mobile posting for your blogs.Enabling mobile posting is a great w…
April 14th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
You may have noticed that about a week ago a new tab showed up in Blogger for your blog. The tab is called Monetize, and in case it isn’t clear what that means: it’s now easier than ever to make money with your blog! (There’s also a “Monetize” link fro…
March 6th, 2009 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The fact that there are tens of thousands of results for “blogger’s block” suggests that more than a few of you have struggled to think of what to say on your blog at one time or another. If that sounds like you, you might want to take a look at Plinky…
February 27th, 2009 | by John Pongsajapan | published in Google Blogger Buzz
A few months ago, we introduced a feature called Following, which lets readers publicly subscribe to your blog. Since then it’s been incredibly successful: nearly three million communities in 39 languages have followers, and every second of every day,…
February 12th, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Over the years we’ve heard lots of great ideas for promoting your blog, and have been compiling them here as a handy reference. From simply adding links to enabling cool newer features such as Following, we’re always happy to update the page when we st…
January 9th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
With several Twitter fans on the Blogger team (not to mention a number of Blogger alumni work at Twitter), it seemed only natural that we set up shop on Twitter ourselves. We will be posting status updates, major feature announcements, and pointers to …
December 10th, 2008 | by JJ from the Data Liberation Front | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today’s release features a brand new graduate from the Blogger in Draft testing ground: Import and Export for Blogger blogs.The import/export feature opens up a whole new range of portability for your blogs, as well as allows for a few new options i…
December 5th, 2008 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Sometimes we stumble across gadgets that are just too cool to keep to ourselves. And such is the case with the slick iLike gadget, which should be a real treat for all of you Blogger audiophiles out there.iLike brings music to your blog by letting you…
November 6th, 2008 | by taj | published in Google Blogger Buzz
One of our goals at Blogger is to make it easy for authors to get feedback on their content; we believe that authors are driven in part by the reactions and criticisms offered by their readers, and that these interactions enhance the quality of blog co…
November 6th, 2008 | by John | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Here at Blogger we’re always working to make the site and your blogs faster and more reliable. We want you to think of us as a big truck: able to handle anything you can dump on us.Tuesday’s election was a good chance to see just how big a truck Bl…
October 27th, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
October 22nd, 2008 | by taj | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we’re bringing the embedded comment form out of Blogger in draft and making it easily available to everyone. This feature puts the comment form at the bottom of each post page, below the comments, instead of on the separate, Blogger-styled page…