August 31st, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
You may have seen stories in the news recently about malware on Blogger, such has this one from the BBC or this one from Committee to Protect Bloggers. Blogger was not compromised. Instead, the blog posts are from bloggers whose machines were compromis…
August 28th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Just wanted to bring your attention to a small yet nifty (and long-requested!) feature we recently added to Blogger’s AdSense integration: inline adsYou can now show AdSense ads inside your block of blog posts, up to 3 times on your main blog page. Thi…
August 24th, 2007 | by Tina | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we are releasing video uploading to Blogger! This feature allows you to upload videos and create a video podcast with the same ease that we currently provide with photo uploading.When you go to the Blogger post editor, you’ll see a new button () …
August 23rd, 2007 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today marks Blogger’s eighth birthday! A time for reflection, a time to catch our breath from yesterday morning, and a time to break out the baby picture.Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the past four-fifths of a decade, and thanks especi…
August 7th, 2007 | by Tyrone | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Say you live in Albuquerque, count the Smashing Pumpkins among your favorite bands, and like sushi. Starting today, we’re making it easy for you to find other bloggers who share your interests.Now you can go to any Blogger profile page (start with yo…
July 11th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
FeedBurner users – we just added a feature for you. Matt’s post on the FeedBurner blog explains it more fully, but in short, you can now specify a URL to which Blogger will redirect your feed’s traffic. This means you’ll no longer have some subscribers…
July 11th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
As of today, the Polls feature has graduated from Blogger in Draft, and is now an official Page Element on www.blogger.com! Polls lets you add a poll to your blog’s sidebar, which your visitors can vote on and see results. This video shows how to creat…
July 9th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Our friends at Twitter just released a nifty new web badge, which you can use to easily display your Twitter updates in your blog’s sidebar:http://twitter.com/badges/blogger(if you’re unfamiliar with Twitter, its FAQ states that, “Twitter is a communit…
June 27th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Blogger in draft has some new features, if you’re keen to tinker with (and give us feedback on!) some in-development stuff. Notably:Polls, which you can add to your blog sidebarsEnclosures, which turn your blog feeds into pod/video-castsPete even poste…
June 27th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
You may have noticed a new dropdown menu in your Blogger Dashboard:In it are 17 new languages, in addition to the 19 that were there previously – tell your friends around the world! Here’s the list of new ones:българскиhrvatskiCatalàčeskyΕ
June 13th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we released something for Blogger that we’ve long wanted to do – an experimental version of the site where the early adopters among you can try out new features before they’re ready for full release. We’re calling it Blogger in draft because the …
June 13th, 2007 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
By coincidence, a pair of stellar blogging clients have seen major updates in the past several days. If you like using Blogger but have browser-o’-phobia, one of these might be right for you:The Windows Live Writer team has released Beta 2 of their s…
June 1st, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Attention Videobloggers!A few of us from the Blogger team will be attending the first-ever Pixelodeon Fest next weekend, at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.If you’ll be going, we’d love to chat with you! Here’s a description of the festival …
May 22nd, 2007 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Our friend Ryanne has been asking us for an easy way to add an image to her blog’s header for a few months now. When we added the feature a few weeks back, she was excited enough to create a screencast to teach everyone how to do it:Also, a plug: Blo…
May 21st, 2007 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
You can help us out and make money just by using Blogger! From time to time at Blogger we run usability studies to make sure that we’re on the right track with all the new features we’re working on.If playing with Blogger for an hour or so and maki…