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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.
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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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The mobile web is expanding at a faster rate than ever. While smartphones today are fully capable of handling the web, from a technical perspective - thanks to the powerful browsers in iPhones, Android devices and so on, the web was not built for small screens and touch input. But it is slowly adjusting, Blogger, for... |
18 December 2010
05:37 GMT |
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Welcome to the CrApple Store, a blog claiming to show the “real” truth behind Apple’s Retail organization, has risen from the dead, after its author announced its shutting down just two weeks ago."Welcome to the CrApple Store" is a blog described by its author as “a place for fed up employees ... |
14 December 2010
09:48 GMT |
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Blogger is still the largest blogging platform out there and, though it's lost some of its luster, it still provides a solid experience. The Blogger team is now introducing a new option for those relying on RSS/Atom feeds to keep their readers up to date. Until now, you could either distribute a snippet of your ... |
11 December 2010
05:19 GMT |
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In the midst of a “war” between pirates and the entertainment industry, Google has sided with legitimate content providers and promises to remove websites hosting copyright infringing material from search results faster, as well as ban certain piracy-related terms from autocomplete.In a new post on its pu... |
3 December 2010
05:46 GMT |
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Pop star Rihanna occasionally searches stuff about herself on the Internet, just out of curiosity, to see what people are saying about her. That doesn’t mean, though, that she values bloggers in any way, since she believes they need to get a life. In a recent radio interview (excerpts via here), the pop star ta... |
18 November 2010
03:14 GMT |
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In what could turn out to be a devastating move for his business, gossip blogger Perez Hilton has promised to stop bullying celebrities on his website – meaning, to ditch that which made him famous in the first place. Perez (real name Mario Lavanderia) was on Ellen DeGeneres the other night and, in light of the... |
14 October 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Blogger is now asking users for suggestions and ideas on how to make the service better, after the first such campaign proved quite successful. Google is not lacking in people with great visions for products, but that doesn't mean that it can't use some help from the users, the ones that are bound to know t... |
8 October 2010
09:42 GMT |
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Apple is believed to plan the hiring of TechCrunch editor Greg Kumparak, as one person who knows the blogger from videos on the web claims to have spotted him near Apple’s campus talking to three Apple reps in a manner that indicated that “Apple was trying to court him for a job.”Gawker reports that... |
6 October 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Blogger has just added a couple of new gadgets which have been in Draft so far. Both gadgets, Popular Posts and Blog's Stats, leverage the new stats feature introduced a few months ago which has recently been made available to everyone. "Last month we released two new stats gadgets to the Blogger in Draft testin... |
30 September 2010
06:25 GMT |
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One of the nice things about Blogger is the amount of freedom you get to customize your blog. You can upload, or write if you have the skillz, your own CSS to create a completely unique look for your blog. But if your coding skills leave to be desired or you don't have the patience to roll up your sleeves and ed... |
18 September 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Blogger has now launched the Stats feature, available in beta so far, for everyone. The feature should now show up in the Dashboard for every Blogger user."Just in time for our eleventh birthday, we are excited to introduce Stats for Blogger," Noah Fiedel and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers at Blogger, announced."F... |
31 August 2010
06:38 GMT |
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Fighting spam is a constant struggle for Blogger. As one of the biggest blog hosts in the world, it has to deal with huge amounts of spam messages every day. But, until now, bloggers have had to either enable comment moderation or use CAPTCHA. Thankfully, all comments on Blogger will now have to go through Google&rsq... |
11 August 2010
07:08 GMT |
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Blogger is getting ready for its 11th birthday, which makes the venerable blogging platform more like 100, in internet years. If you’re one of those conservatives that still blogs, you may actually be the kind of person to appreciate quaint ‘offline’ activities like parties. What Blogger is proposin... |
10 August 2010
06:26 GMT |
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Micro-blogging platform Posterous has released a new tool to help Blogger users to migrate their content to Posterous in a very simple manner. In fact, Blogger is now being added to a collection of web services Posterous is integrating in their platform.Every day since June 22nd 2010, Posterous has been releasing a n... |
6 July 2010
13:06 GMT |
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As any self-respecting blogger will tell you, visitor stats are a big part of the thrill of publishing online. Even the most blasé bloggers can’t stop checking in on the stats at least once in a while, which would explain the prevalence of traffic tracking tools catering specifically to bloggers. And... |
2 July 2010
06:55 GMT |
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Sharing has become very important on the web and there’s hardly a website out there that doesn’t enable users to easily share a story or a piece of content. This goes double for blogs, which really thrive from readers sharing a post with their friends. As such, Blogger has finally introduced some new shar... |
25 June 2010
10:13 GMT |
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Blogger has recently released the new Template Designer to everyone. At the same time, it has also introduced a couple of new features that it is now highlighting. One very useful tool now available to the millions of Blogger users is the “accurate post preview,” which, very much like the name implies, en... |
23 June 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Google introduced at the end of last week a new tool called GoogleCL. It runs from the command-line (yes, the Linux terminal), and allows users to post, create, list or delete photos from an existing Picasa account, videos from a YouTube account, edit, list or upload documents from your Google Docs account, add, dele... |
22 June 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Blogger is now releasing the Template Designer feature it had been testing for a few months to everyone. The feature enables bloggers to choose from some of the predefined templates and customize them in any way they see fit. The tool is designed for those who want more control over what their blog looks like, but wh... |
11 June 2010
11:03 GMT |
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If you have an hour to spare and a machine running Windows, Google has a proposition for you. The company is conducting a usability study for Blogger and, even though Google is keeping mum on what exactly the study is about, it’s prepared to make up for the ‘inconvenience’ with $75 in American Expre... |
4 June 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Google has finally made the announcement a lot of Google Apps users have been waiting for. The company plans to open up the service to include more Google products like Blogger or Picasa. These won’t be dedicated versions of the products for Google Apps, but the same services anyone can sign up with. The only m... |
7 May 2010
06:57 GMT |
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With the Internet becoming more affordable and more available all around the world, it is proving a disruptive force in countless ways. Unfortunately, some regimes, specifically the ones used to controlling public opinion and media, don't take too kindly to this type of disruption and try to do what they do best... |
20 April 2010
07:37 GMT |
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An avid twitterer and an even more avid attention-seeker (depending on who you ask), Tila Tequila has decided it’s high time for a career change. After trying her hand at reality television, glamour modeling and music, the star will now be focusing on becoming a celebrity blogger – and taking down the mos... |
16 April 2010
03:00 GMT |
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Google's obsession with speed is well documented and there isn't one Google service or product that doesn't put performance at the top of its priorities. This is also true for products Google has acquired along the years, like YouTube, which is getting a major revamp very soon, but it's also true ... |
31 March 2010
12:41 GMT |
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Blogging has been around for ages, by the web's standards, and there's not that much that the main blog hosting services or platforms can do to surprise or impress. Yet, for all their popularity and all their years of existence, the big platforms, Blogger, WordPress, still have their flaws. For Google'... |
12 March 2010
05:42 GMT |
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With millions of blogs under its supervision, verifying that everything that gets posted on Blogger, complies with policies or with the law can be a daunting task. Add to this the whole copyright, fair use, DMCA debacle and you've got a situation that inevitably leads to problems. After several music blogs were... |
11 February 2010
09:23 GMT |
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Blogger may be the biggest blog hosting platform out there, but it has been lacking some very much needed features. Blog Pages aren't crucial by any means, but WordPress, for example, has had the feature for years. The fact that such a simple yet powerful feature was missing from Blogger has frustrated quite a l... |
4 February 2010
05:37 GMT |
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Blogger is one of the most popular blog hosting platform in the world. It provides a simple way of enabling anyone to publish to the web, this is true of any blog platform, obviously, and this is what most people use it for. However, there are those who prefer to have more control over their blogs but still use the B... |
23 January 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Google is now a huge company with several dozen big products. Yet, it's struggling to maintain some of the things that people loved about it when it was a wee stratup. One aspect has been the way it chose to communicate with its customers and users, blogging, giving it a more human face while also showing that ... |
4 January 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Google and Amazon have just announced a joint program which should come in handy for bloggers wanting to earn some money from their posts. Earlier this year the Google-owned Blogger introduced a Monetize tab to enable its users to easily add AdSense ads to their blogs. Now, it's taking it one step further by pa... |
17 December 2009
09:29 GMT |
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AT&T recently confirmed that iPhone users would be able to start using MMS come September 25. Available via a software update (as stated by AT&T), MMS will be supported on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS units, excluding the first-generation iPhone. Following the written announcement, AT&T has now posted a video featuring "... |
7 September 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Yahoo has filed a complaint against Spanish blogger David Blanco Ramos for the bad faith registration of the Yahoo.tel domain name. The domain was registered during the launch of the .tel domain name, Yahoo being the first major company trying to acquire its domain back from third-party registrations.Other major comp... |
31 August 2009
04:32 GMT |
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The results from a previous lawsuit between Vogue cover-girl Liskula Cohen and Google have spawned new troubles for the Mountain View-based company. Rosemary Port, a fashion student in New York, has sued Google for breaching its privacy policy and disclosing personal information to a third party.The timeline of all t... |
24 August 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Blogs are getting really old, by Internet standards, but they've become such an integral part of Internet life that we hardly realize they're there. In fact, one of the best-known blogging platforms out there, Blogger, is turning 10 years old in a couple of months. And, just to make sure nothing will ruin t... |
19 June 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Google has announced that all the users of the Blogger platform will soon have greater opportunities to tighten the bonds with the other users of Google's blogging system. “Following,” a new feature that will be implemented in the next couple of weeks in all blogs, allows bloggers to interact more wi... |
29 August 2008
12:00 GMT |
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A blogger has been arrested by the FBI because he was hosting, on his personal webpage, nine songs from the Guns n' Roses yet to be released “Chinese Democracy” album. In fact, the tracks were uploaded in June and they were removed that same month, both because of several server failures, caused by t... |
28 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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An Indian company, tired of the unceasing attacks of an anonymous blogger, decided to file a lawsuit against him, as Blog Wired, citing a Wall Street Journal article, reports. But Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects encounters a problem. The company cannot find out the identity of the blogger who made a habi... |
16 August 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Posting entries on a blog is usually a pleasant activity and some people managed to do a real business out of it. However, publishing messages on a blog sometimes may bring you more trouble than you have ever expected according to recent reports concerning a blogger who may go to jail due to comments posted on his bl... |
22 May 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Blogger, the Mountain View-based company's blog service, might be one of the most used blog services around the world. As a Google user, you can use your Gmail account in order to register and login to the Blogger webpage. After login, you have to follow a three-step preliminary setup of your personal blog page,... |
15 May 2008
09:13 GMT |
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Following the recent reports that hackers managed to break into the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA and to create email accounts for spamming purposes, another web-service gets compromised with the same goal. Google's Blogger, the free blogging platform which lets users create blogs and post messages from a web-bas... |
25 April 2008
08:57 GMT |
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Blogs and social networks are two of the most popular technologies nowadays, having an impressive yet continuously growing number of users. People like blogging because they're usually free and because they are able to write their own articles without too much effort. On the other hand, social networks connect c... |
16 April 2008
16:46 GMT |
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Blogger is bringing the concept of steady evolution to the ground, much as Google is doing with almost all of the products it releases and features it implements. The good old days when there would be an official date for an update, or, in software, a patch that everybody would wait for, are dead and buried when it c... |
18 February 2008
03:00 GMT |
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The news that Matt Mullenweg announced yesterday made every WordPress blogger's day a better one. The upgrade is huge and it comes with absolutely no cost. The interesting part is that it might also come off as a Picasa competitor because of the bigger space available for uploading pictures. Of course, there... |
22 January 2008
03:58 GMT |
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