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Blogger is making a move very similar to Twitter, allowing for the removal of content on a country-by country basis, to be able to conform to law requirements in certain places but still offer as much content as possible to as many people as possible.
The move comes too fast after Twitter's for it to have serve... |
1 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Google is building Google+ into everything it owns, for better or for worse. With Blogger, it is already pretty far along. It has added the option of merging a Blogger profile with a Google+ one and introduced support for things like the +1 button.Now it's making a change that should come in handy for those that... |
25 January 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Blogger has finally gotten some love in 2011 and the venerable blogging service has gotten a well-deserved update. There are new dynamic themes, a completely new dashboard and plenty of new features. But Google is not done, there's still plenty to do to bring Blogger up to spec.
One new feature just introduced ... |
12 January 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Google is building Google+ into more of its products. The venerable Blogger is getting a social infusion with a new Google+ integration feature, users that have linked their blogs to their Google+ profiles will have the option of sharing anything they post to Google+ as well.
"Back in October we made it possible for... |
13 December 2011
04:11 GMT |
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The main reason why people choose a blogging platform rather than setting up their own WordPress install, hosting, domain name and so on, is precisely because they don't want to or don't know how to set up their own WordPress, hosting, domain name. But even if you choose a hosted platform such as Blogger, W... |
18 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Ignoring a lesson that Blogger learned the hard way, WordPress.com is now introducing a new lightbox viewer for photo galleries. WordPress calls it a carousel, but it's the same feature, a way of browsing through a set of photos through a full screen viewer.WordPress.com's carousel feature is pretty run of ... |
9 November 2011
08:01 GMT |
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A while back, Blogger started thinking about people visiting blogs on their phones and introduced mobile templates about a year ago. It made them available to all last summer and has added a few more abilities aimed at these readers in the meantime.Now it's making another big step by enabling bloggers to customi... |
9 November 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Google is very keen on mobile, it's been working on building mobile alternatives for all of its products and is already seeing quite a lot money coming from mobile ads. No surprise then that it wants everyone to keep up and build mobile sites that its Android phones can use and its advertising can reach.Google i... |
1 November 2011
10:01 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Blogger debuted the very slick and modern Dynamic Views templates. Built on HTML5, CSS3 and AJAX, they do a lot to improve the look and feel of the oldest blogging platform.But, like with any new technology, there were limitations and some bugs. The big issues were fixed early, now Blogger is working... |
26 October 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Google has made it official, it's now offering Blogger users the option of switching over to a Google+ profile to replace their existing Blogger profiles. This is just for the Draft version of the site, which is sort of a Beta version, and users can switch back at any time.The plan going forward is to offer more... |
25 October 2011
06:10 GMT |
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When Google says that Google+ is Google and the other way around, it means it. There are plans to integrate everything under the Google umbrella with the social site. Some products are more obvious than others, Blogger is in the first camp.As Google's first, best known and still biggest social web product, Blogg... |
24 October 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Blogger has been undergoing quite a transformation this year. It debuted a brand new dashboard a couple of months back, the biggest evolution to date. It started out slow, enabling users to check out the new look and get accustomed to it, without forcing it on anyone.It's now moving to get more people upgraded t... |
18 October 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Recently, Blogger has rolled out the flashy Dynamic Views templates. Built on top of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, they're the latest word in blog design. But they're also slow and sometimes buggy. And some of the features, while looking great, offer very poor usability, like the 'pop-up' posts in t... |
15 October 2011
02:00 GMT |
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Contrary to what it may seem like in many cases, Google does listen to its users. As long as there are enough of them. A few weeks ago, Google rolled out a Lightbox feature across the many millions of Blogger blogs, with no prior notification and no way of turning it off.
Apart from the fact that many people simp... |
13 October 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Blogger debuted the new Dynamic Views last week, a great-looking new set of templates for Blogger blogs that are built on top of modern web technologies, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. But, as with any big launch, especially for something as technical as this, some issues have only now surfaced.
So Blogger has now up... |
7 October 2011
07:20 GMT |
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Blogger Robert Scoble, a former Microsoft employee who runs his own tech blog and has some connections in Silicon Valley, claims he’s heard Steve Jobs will not be attending today’s festivities in Cupertino. The reason? He’s not feeling very well.Steve Jobs, as avid Softpedia readers should well know... |
4 October 2011
08:06 GMT |
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After debuting the very modern and nice looking new dashboard to everyone, Blogger is not done with the big announcements. It is now making available seven dynamic templates built with AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, the latest web technologies.
The templates are a huge step forward from what has been available until now an... |
28 September 2011
04:31 GMT |
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The WordPress iOS application used by thousands of iPhone and iPad owners to manage their blog has received a major update this week, to include text-formatting abilities, a new full-screen editing mode, and more.“We’re excited to give you the next major version of WordPress for iOS. The focus of this rel... |
27 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Blogger introduced a Lightbox style feature for blog photos. While it may be a few years after Lightbox was trendy, it's an attempt to modernize the aging blogging service. However, Blogger first rolled out the feature and then made the announcement. Blogger has tens of millions of blogs, ... |
21 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Google has made it official and announced the Lightbox view for Blogger. The feature had been live, at least for some users, but possibly for all, for several days now.The official announcement doesn't really add anything we didn't know, except perhaps for the fact that, while enabled by default for all blo... |
19 September 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Blogger, which is in the midst of a grand redesign and revamp, has introduced a new slideshow feature for photos in posts. The feature is enabled by default for all images. Clicking on any image in a post will open up a larger version in a lightbox along with a thumbnail list of all photos in that post.
The slides... |
19 September 2011
07:40 GMT |
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RAGE Software have unleashed a new piece of Mac software called iWeb to WordPress. As its name implies, the program facilitates moving your iWeb blog to WordPress.Those of you owning a blog created with Apple’s iWeb creation tool may have heard that MobileMe is transitioning to iCloud.Apple gave customers 1 yea... |
12 September 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Blogger has been with Google for a long time now and it has remained one of the biggest websites on the planet. It didn't get a huge amount of attention for quite a while, but Google seems to be a lot more interested in its blogging platform lately.
It's gotten a fresh new dashboard, with plenty of impro... |
9 September 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Google has launched its official Blogger application for Apple customers wielding an iPhone or iPod touch. It’s available as a free download from the iTunes App Store and, as its name implies, it will facilitate blogging. On the go.Over at the Google Mobile blog, Chang Kim, Product Manager, is “excited to... |
9 September 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Google is rolling out the brand new Blogger to all users. It's been testing the redesigned and revamped site for several months now and Draft users have had access to it for a while. But now, all Blogger users will be switched over to the new site.
It's not available to everyone yet, it's a gradual ... |
1 September 2011
05:04 GMT |
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In an attempt to comply with a court order and block a single blog, some Argentinian ISPs have enacted a filter that actually makes over a million websites inaccessible to their customers.The whole situation started with Argentina's National Telecommunications Commission (CNC) issuing a directive to ISPs to bloc... |
20 August 2011
07:42 GMT |
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Google has announced that it is integrating Google Scribe an experimental text editor with word completion and suggestions, with Blogger, albeit the experimental version, Blogger in Draft.Google Scribe is an interesting tool, though it's more a solution looking for a problem than the other way around. As you typ... |
9 August 2011
11:39 GMT |
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While the huge revamp is still in the works, Blogger is tying up some loose ends, introducing a few small features and changes. The custom favicon support, which debuted a couple of months back for Blogger in Draft, the labs version of the site, is now available to all.
The mobile templates, which were also introd... |
2 August 2011
09:19 GMT |
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WordPress is not the only blogging platform that is dropping support for legacy browsers. Blogger has announced that it's following the company line and will only support the last two versions of a browser, from now on.
The change will be effective starting August 1st at which time, Firefox 3.5, Internet Expl... |
15 July 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Google has been teasing the Blogger redesign for a few months now. In fact, it was the first time that we got a glimpse at the huge visual transformation Google is going through, though, at the time, the company said nothing about other products.
In fact, it looks like the global redesign wave caught the Blogger ... |
8 July 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Google+ is really a concentrated effort. The company is fully behind the project and it will encompass all of Google's products, where feasible. That's the plan at least and Google seems to be very determined about it if reports that it plans to retire the Picasa and Blogger brands, in favor of the generic-... |
6 July 2011
04:05 GMT |
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Blogger has announced that the mobile templates it introduced late last year to Blogger in Draft are finally available to everyone. There are also 27 templates to choose from now, to make your blog a lot more readable on a mobile device. Even if you're not using a template, you can still enable support for smart... |
9 June 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Blogger has started testing an interesting new feature, a small one but one that should probably have been enabled long, long time ago. Users can now upload their own favicons for their blogs, so we'll finally stop seeing the ubiquitous orange Blogger favicon on half the blogs we visit in a day.The new feature i... |
9 June 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Along with introducing the +1 button for websites, Google also rolled it out for more of its own properties. The +1 button is now available on YouTube and you can embed it on Blogger. If you like an app from the Android Market, you can tell the world as well."We're excited to roll out the Google +1 button on You... |
2 June 2011
09:41 GMT |
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A lawsuit involving Twitter is causing a lot of fuss in the UK and elsewhere, since Twitter revealed account details and private data of a Twitter account holder to the authorities. The main concerns is that this puts a dampen on free speech online, however, Twitter acted in full compliance of the law and, like in th... |
30 May 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Turkish internet users have had enough. The government regularly blocks websites it doesn't like, backed up by rather draconian laws and liberal interpretations, some as big as YouTube, and now it plans to introduce voluntary internet filters that would block certain websites and content. It also plans to ban so... |
16 May 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Blogger is up and running again after a couple of days of problems. What was scheduled to be a routine update turned sour and Blogger has had to revert to a backed-up version of the service. This also meant that all posts were reverted to the date of the backup. Since then, Blogger has been restoring content posted a... |
14 May 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Blogger is experiencing one of the worst outages in recent history. A routine maintenance update went haywire and the service is now down for everyone wanting to access their dashboard or post something. What's more, all posts and comments made since May 11 have been removed, Blogger says, temporarily. "We are v... |
13 May 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Blogger is working on a massive overhaul, but, in the meantime, has introduced a couple of new features and tweaks ahead of the big launches coming. All users are now able to add location data to their posts, if they so desire. There is also an updated media content upload interface, similar to the generic one Google... |
6 May 2011
11:01 GMT |
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The major Blogger redesign is already going live, albeit with a small number of people. Blogger will be rolling out the new dashboard to a few people who are already using Blogger in Draft. Usually, Draft is used to test new features and updates before they go live to everyone, essentially it's a beta version of... |
20 April 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Blogger was one of Google's first acquisitions yet the process of integrating it with Google's products isn't done yet. Eight years after buying it, Google is finally ending support for legacy accounts in favor of universal Google accounts.Granted, Blogger used its own accounts system until 2006 and on... |
16 April 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Blogger has kept its promise and has unveiled the first step of the announced revamp. Google hasn't paid that much attention to Blogger in recent years, but it's finally getting the some love. Blogger is previewing five new blog templates full of AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3 goodness to put the likes of WordPress, ... |
31 March 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Surprising no one, Twitter cofounder and former CEO Evan Williams has announced that his role at the company is greatly diminished these days and that he's already thinking about what's next. With Blogger and Twitter under his belt, he doesn't really need an introduction and anything he's working ... |
30 March 2011
05:58 GMT |
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RSS/Atom feeds may be dead or may be thriving, depending on who you listen to and the day of the week, but even if the protocol hasn't taken the world by storm, just as it's not about to go away any time soon, the need for a way to subscribe to web content and be notified of updates is still very much real.... |
17 March 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Blogger may be the biggest blogging platform in the world, but it's certainly not the trendiest. While plenty of people still use it and there has been a steady stream of updates and new features, it is in dire need of a revamp and, luckily, that's exactly what's coming, some time this year.
Blogger i... |
14 March 2011
13:24 GMT |
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Google is having problems in Turkey again, Blogger has been blocked entirely in the country by a local court. The issue, this time, is with copyrighted content, streams of football matches showing up on various Blogger blogs. The solution, a local media company believed, was to block millions of blogs and millions of... |
5 March 2011
06:56 GMT |
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A new mobile application is now available for download for the users of an Android-based handset, namely the Blogger Android App, which should allow enthusiasts to easily blog post while on the go.The new mobile software comes from Google themselves, and was designed to offer users the possibility to easily compose ... |
4 February 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Blogger is rolling out support for web fonts for all its users. Anyone will now have the possibility to add a little flair and move beyond Arial and Times New Roman with a big selection of optional fonts for their blogs. There are now 77 new fonts to pick from, though they're only available if you're using ... |
21 January 2011
07:50 GMT |
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According to a recent post by the author of CrAppleStore, a blog that focuses on exposing Apple for some of the negative aspects surrounding its retail stores, staffers are trained to demo Macs for just two minutes, “then move on.”The author of the blog, who claims to have been on Apple’s payroll as... |
10 January 2011
11:00 GMT |
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With Tumblr's rather spectacular meltdown from a couple of weeks ago, a test of the reliability of blog hosting platforms seems spot on. Pingdom did just such a test and the results, though not exactly surprising are interesting. The most reliable blogging platform is also the oldest, Blogger, while the least re... |
20 December 2010
11:26 GMT |
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