January 13th, 2010 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Like many of you, we watched in horror as news emerged from Haiti about yesterday’s disastrous earthquake. For those of you who publish your blog with Blogger, we built a couple of widgets that make it easy to invite your readers to contribute money to…
December 16th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Earlier this year we simplified the process for monetizing your blog by adding a “Monetize” tab in the Blogger app. We started with AdSense, which allows you to add contextual advertising to your pages; more recently we added AdSense for Feeds to h…
December 9th, 2009 | by Chang Kim | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Chang Kim, Product Manager, BloggerMore and more of you are using Google Chrome (more than 30 million active users now!), and we want to let you know that a Blogger extension is included in the Chrome Extensions gallery. The BlogThis! Chrome extensi…
November 10th, 2009 | by Helen Kang | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Helen Kang, Software Engineer, BloggerSome of you must have wondered what the Next Blog link on the NavBar does, and clicked on the link once or twice. Next Blog used to take you to a random blog, written by a random blogger. Your fellow blogger cou…
November 6th, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Last week we asked you for a few words to describe both the Blogger of the present and the Blogger you’d like to see in the future. You responded overwhelmingly, and now as promised we’d like to share the unedited results with you:Blogger Today(click f…
November 5th, 2009 | by Eddie | published in Google Blogger Buzz
By Eddie Kessler, Blogger Engineering ManagerAfter a recent service interruption, we started talking about how we could improve our communications about these (hopefully infrequent) issues. Going forward, in the case of significant service interruption…
October 30th, 2009 | by Talin | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Talin, Software Engineer, BloggerAs a blog author, you’ve probably spent more than a little time getting exactly the right “look” for your blog. A blog is an outlet for creative expression, and how your blog looks says as much about you as what is w…
October 23rd, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
As we close the chapter on the first ten years over here on Blogger, the team couldn’t be more excited about the possibilities that lie ahead over the next ten. And while we’ve got some great things planned already, we know that the ideas and passion o…
October 13th, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Guest post by Robin Beck, Blog Action DayThis is Robin Beck here from Blog Action Day central, and I want to thank Rick and the Blogger team for helping support Blog Action Day 2009. For those of you who don’t know, Blog Action Day is an annual event…
October 9th, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
While October is to many a month of candy and costumes, it also happens to be National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S. In that spirit, we thought we’d take a minute to look at a few different things you can do to make sure both your content …
October 1st, 2009 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Last week, Google Sidewiki launched to the world as an entirely new way to share information across the web. This new Google Toolbar feature allows you to contribute your own insight to any webpage, as well as read information shared by others rig…
September 25th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Have opinions about Blogger? If so, we’d like to meet you. We are looking for participants willing to document their blogging practices over a few weeks and answer some interview questions. This will help us better understand your needs and keep improv…
September 17th, 2009 | by Lu Chen | published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Lu Chen, Blogger Summer Intern (Philadelphia, PA)Last October we launched a comments feature that let you embed comments and the commenting form below your blog posts. Today we have extended embedded comments to display profile images next to the co…
September 15th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Guest Post by Caroline Vanderlip, SharedBook CEOTo continue Blogger’s 10th anniversary celebration, I’m delighted to announce that Blog2Print has now partnered with Blogger. Blog2Print lets you publish some or all of your posts and photos as a profe…
September 14th, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Guest Post by Will Price, CEO of WidgetboxIn honor of Blogger’s 10 birthday, all of us at Widgetbox are excited to announce a partnership with Blogger that allows you to quickly and easily turn your blog into a widget. Whether you want to add your b…