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Have you tried out Blogger in draft, Blogger’s experimental features site, recently? Blogger in draft is a version of Blogger with features we’re trying out before we “publish” them to everybody on the main site. (See our original announcement:…

Update: This was an April Fools Day post. Today we’d like to offer you a sneak peek at an exciting new product we’ve been working on: Google Weblogs.Since Google bought Pyra Labs in 2002, we’ve been dreaming, planning, and implementing the next…

For all you visual learners who want to add features to your blog, but don’t have the patience to browse our help articles, we’ve created the new Blogger Help YouTube Channel. There you can find videos that show you step by step how to use Blogger feat…

Going to be in Austin for this year’s South by Southwest festival? That makes several of us!Blogger is once again rocking it out at Club de Ville [map] with delicious snacks, an open bar, Blogger Play, and our SXSW staple: climate-inappropriate schwa…

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…

I’m saddened to have to do this yet again, but today we’re saying our collective goodbyes to Graham Waldon, one of the longest-serving members of the Blogger team at Google. I was fortunate enough to have interviewed Graham before he joined us back in …

This is a quick post to announce that, in addition to Blogger’s recent improvements and fixes, we are now available in Filipino.There is already a very strong blogging community in the Philippines, and we’re very happy to support that and be a part…

Today’s release brings a number of updates to Blogger:Clearer identity options on the comment form, which now highlights some of the more popular OpenID providers more obviously.Transliteration is now available in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telug…

We are excited to announce that Blogger is now available in three more languages: Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian!Blogger in Hebrew, Arabic, and PersianSupporting these languages is a huge milestone for us because — unlike the other 37 languages Blogger …

2007 has been Blogger’s most amazing year yet! As you’ll remember, we began it just after we had taken the new version of Blogger out of beta. Here’s a quick run-down of many of the fun things we did since then:Domain association and purchasingHindi tr…

Two fixes just went live, before we sign off for a brief holiday break:Unregistered commenters can once again provide an auto-linked URL [Help Group Thread]Images in the Header page element will no longer be cropped vertically [Help Group thread]We apo…

After just two short weeks of testing on Blogger in draft, OpenID commenting is now available for all Blogger blogs. This means that your friends and readers can leave authenticated comments on your blog using their blog URLs from OpenID-enabled servic…

As you videobloggers already know, you can upload your videos directly to Blogger. But for the rest of the video watchers out there, did you know you can just as easily post YouTube videos to your blog?All you need to do is set up your YouTube account …

Take a look at our latest tool for your blog: the Slideshow page element. This feature lets you add a slick little slideshow of your photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Photobucket, or any site that supports Media RSS.The photos will show up in your…

Sasha Cagen’s To-Do List blog (which you may recognize as a blog of note) has just been released as a book! Both blog and book are collections of, well, to-do lists, mailed or emailed in by people. Think PostSecret meets Getting Things Done.Watch the…