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…
October 22nd, 2008 | by taj | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today, we’re releasing our Blogger Post Gadget for iGoogle. Now you can edit and publish posts directly from your custom iGoogle homepage, making it even easier to share your thoughts with the world.To get started, just click that “+ Google” but…
September 11th, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
A few posts ago we let you know about Blogger Following. The feature lets readers publicly subscribe to your blog (so you know who’s reading) and adds a Reading List to your Blogger Dashboard so readers can stay updated with the blogs they follow.Now i…
September 2nd, 2008 | by Mendel | published in Google Blogger Buzz
For more than a year, you have been able to view all the photos you’ve uploaded to your blog in Picasa Web Albums. It’s been good — having a dedicated photo management interface comes in handy when you want to do things like embed Blogger photos else…
August 27th, 2008 | by Sean | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Would you like to know who enjoys reading your blog? Or stay updated with your favorite blogs right from your Blogger dashboard? You can do those things and more with Blogger’s new Following feature. By following your blog, your readers tell you and…
August 27th, 2008 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The big news for this release is following, but we’ve snuck a few other fixes in since last time:As reported on Blogger Buster (and elsewhere), the 3rd party Add Widget API was broken. It has been fixed.The new button style appears clickable in all b…
August 14th, 2008 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’ve added a few new features and things in today’s release:There’s a new look for the Blogger Dashboard, which we think you’ll find more attractive and functional. If you have a ton of blogs (as we do) try out the “hide” and “show all
August 11th, 2008 | by Prashant | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Fresh out of Blogger’s own testing ground, Google Gadgets have now been enabled for all layouts blogs. This new interface allows for the integration of iGoogle Gadgets directly into your sidebar, with an array of customization options for easy tweaking…
August 4th, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Babies are all the buzz at Blogger. Within the last few months we’ve had three new additions to the Blogger Team: Ryan, Aditya, and Haley. Although it’ll probably be a few years before they start sounding off themselves, we get to post some cute pics o…
August 2nd, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
You knew that already, and now we do too. We have now restored all accounts that were mistakenly marked as spam yesterday. (See: Spam Fridays)We want to offer our sincerest apologies to affected bloggers and their readers. We’ve tracked down the prob…
August 1st, 2008 | by brett | published in Google Blogger Buzz
While we wish that every post on this blog could be about cool features or other Blogger news, sometimes we have to step in and admit a mistake.We’ve noticed that a number of users have had their blogs mistakenly marked as spam, and wanted to sound off…
July 23rd, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
A few months ago, we announced a new web authoring tool called Knol. Well, today we’ve announced its public launch, and we wanted to tell you a little bit more about it and how you might use it to complement your blog. Blogs are great for quickly and …
July 18th, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger:Blogger is now available in Malay! Blogger has a large base of users in Malaysia and we are excited to now bring them Blogger in their native language.Comment moderation can n…
June 5th, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your…
June 5th, 2008 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today’s release brings a handful of tweaks and fixes, as well as the new Blog List page element. Here’s some of what we fixed:If you delete a post or make a typo in a post URL, the resulting 404 page now says “page not found” instead of the inc…