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Google Blogging Platform Gets More Social Friendly

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

Leak of Unreleased Guns n' Roses Tracks Leads to Arrest

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

Google Asked to Reveal Blogger Identity

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

Racist Blogger Arrested in Singapore

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

Google's Blogger Plans to Add New Feature

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

Hackers Cracked Google's Blogger CAPTCHA

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

Blogging from Social Networks Enhanced by Six Apart

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

Blogger Feats Galore

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

WordPress Taking after Gmail in Free Space

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

Dizzying Additions to Blogger

The blogging community is one of the most important for Google as they provide a lot of traffic going the Mountain View based company's way and a lot of ad exposure to the Internet users. By providing a "home" for the bloggers with creating… erm… Blogger, the Internet company has in fact extended its reputation ...

18 January 2008
04:00 GMT

Chinese Blogger Beaten to Death by Authorities

Wei Wenhua (魏文华 is the Chinese spelling of his name) happened on a confrontation in Hubei, a central Chinese province, between city inspectors and residents protesting against the dumping of waste near their homes. Being the "citizen journalist" that he was, Wei quickly took out his phone with th...

14 January 2008
17:56 GMT

Email - Google Search - Infected Website: Yet Another Dangerous Triangle!

Scammers are always looking to exploit vulnerabilities, take advantage of people's naivety or direct users to malicious websites, but today's report is about what seems to be smartest attack in the last few months. Alex Eckelberry, of security company Sunbelt, informed today that a new scam based on spam me...

11 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Hundreds of Stolen Credit Cards Published on a Google Hosted Page

Ever thought that a popular service hosted by a huge company, such as Google, can turn into one of the most dangerous websites on the web, for hundreds of people? Maybe not, but today, it has been proved that such a thing can happen in a matter of seconds and can have some serious consequences for all the ones involv...

10 January 2008
15:06 GMT

One-Month Holding in Prison Limit for Bloggers

The cases of bloggers being held for what they have written are too many to be looked over and, to be honest, are quite common in the countries where human rights are often breached. The latest case is that of Fouhad al-Fahran, held in the conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia for over a month. As per usual, a ...

7 January 2008
09:31 GMT

Online Sexually Explicit Content Not Accepted Anymore

Vietnam is that kind of country that struggles to regulate the content appearing on the residents' blogs, although we all know it's pretty difficult to do such a thing. But according to AFP, the Deputy Information and Communications Minister, Do Quy Doan, aims to reduce the amount of subversive and sexually...

28 December 2007
06:01 GMT

Blogger Websites Full of Fake Codec Trojans

The fake codec Trojans that affected so many websites are back. These days, they are being spread through Google Blogger's pages that host all sorts of content. Yesterday, Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt informed that an avalanche of fake codecs was discovered on numerous Blogger accounts, which looked similar to the...

27 December 2007
02:26 GMT

Google Listens to Its Users

In a continuous attempt to make its users happy, Google decided to step up its support response to those in dire need of assistance and began taking every service at a time to solve the most outstanding problems reported.Today, it is the Official Blogger Buzz from Blogger reporting that some of the features that had ...

21 December 2007
06:07 GMT

Image Search from Google with Some New Additions

Blogger is one of the biggest blogging sites there is, as you well know. And also as you well know, it was Google's toy that it gave us, the children on the internet, to play with. Be it witty approach to old subjects or discovering new ones, a snappy quarrel with your friends, maybe unknown readers or just sob...

10 December 2007
15:31 GMT

Bloggers from all over the World Unite…

Isn't it a nuisance that whenever you want to comment on any of your friend's Blogger account posts, you can't link back to your blog, because you're using some different OpenID-enabled service, such as LiveJournal or WordPress? It is, don't answer that, it was only a rhetorical question.It ...

3 December 2007
06:09 GMT

How to Track Your Blog Comments by Email

Nowadays, almost every Internet user has a blog to post his/her own articles and thoughts so every utility which addresses the blogging activities is pretty attractive. Today, the folks working at the Blogger team rolled out a new function for their service which allows the registered members to track a comment with ...

26 October 2007
15:06 GMT

Blogging Offline

Google Gears, the technology powered by the super giant which takes the web-based applications into offline mode, is now able to work with Blogger, the blogging service owned by the same company. Actually, it doesn't take the entire service in offline mode because it only creates Blog.gears, an offline Blogger c...

23 October 2007
03:49 GMT

YouTube Banned in China, Other Services Available Again

China is that kind of country which today praises your technology but tomorrow bans it because a piece of content appearing on it offended the country's authorities. It happened again today when it seems like YouTube became unavailable for the local consumers who get the famous "The server is taking too long to ...

18 October 2007
16:56 GMT

Introduction to Blogs

Nowadays everybody talks about blogs. Everybody wants to have a blog. But what is it? 'Blog' is the short form of weblog. A blog is an online journal or diary, where everybody makes public their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's cre...

17 September 2007
10:11 GMT

Today's Hot Feature: Play with Google

Google's blogging technology Blogger introduced 'Play', a special function which enables any Internet user to view the photos uploaded by other bloggers as a slideshow. The best thing is that 'Play' provides this amazing presentation in real time so you'll be able to view a picture just ...

17 September 2007
01:55 GMT

Google Gets More Firefox Support

Mozilla and Google are already two good friends but using the power of the browser extensions, the two companies aim to bring more consumers to their solutions. In case you forgot, the search giant designed a browser toolbar, 100 percent Firefox compatible, which comes with one click access for many of the Google ser...

14 September 2007
05:47 GMT

Google Safe, Even When Attacked by Trojans

It was recently reported that Google's blogging technology Blogger was attacked by a Trojan horse that compromised numerous blogs hosted by the Mountain View company but the search giant's representatives never confirmed it. The Blogger team posted a message on the official blog of the service in order to c...

3 September 2007
03:42 GMT

Google Crushed by Storm!

Not even Google's defenses can fight off such a virus. It pounded on Blogger and infected a lot of its sites! It's had 1000 faces and it continues to wreak havoc on the Internet. Storm has been plaguing us since the beginning of the year and it's one heck of a resilient threat. I don't think I�...

30 August 2007
02:55 GMT

Now You Can: Upload Clips on Your Blog

Google's blogging service Blogger was updated with a new feature that allows you to upload your personal clips straight on your blog without having to publish them on YouTube or any other video sharing platform and embed them into your articles. Using this feature, any blog owner is able to upload a certain clip...

27 August 2007
14:16 GMT

Happy Birthday Google!

Google's blogging solution celebrated the 8th anniversary yesterday as it was released on August 23, 1999. If you didn't know, Blogger was first launched by Pyra Labs in 1999 and was then acquired by the Mountain View company in 2003. The two firms didn't mention any financial term but one of the Pyra ...

24 August 2007
02:49 GMT

Google Downtime Kept Secret

The very popular blogging service Blogger was affected by a serious problem that caused the product to become unavailable for approximately one hour. The interesting fact is that the Mountain View company didn't announce the outage, so I guess everybody was surprised when the blogging technology became inaccessi...

23 August 2007
03:43 GMT

Now You Can Make Money with Your Blog. For Real!

The folks working at Blogger finally implemented a long awaited feature that brings inline advertisements placed between the blog posts. Until now, the Blogger technology allowed the blog owners to place ads only on the main page without offering the possibility to insert adverts between the posts. The new option wor...

22 August 2007
04:04 GMT

Beware! Google Gets Involved In The Facebook Stolen Code Distribution!

A few days ago, the leaked Facebook code which was published on the Internet, appeared on a huge number of websites. Although most of them were shut down, others remained up and gathered a lot of traffic and became popular. For example, there were numerous blogs hosted by Google's Blogger which published the sto...

16 August 2007
05:40 GMT

Looking For Sex? Here You Go!

Let's say you are a blog reader and you want to find additional blogs with same topics as your own. How can you search for them beside going to Google and typing the desired keyword? Well, the Mountain View company Google found the perfect solution and implemented a special feature into the famous blogging servi...

9 August 2007
03:17 GMT

Want a Google Search? Here's One!

It's been a while since the Mountain View company rolled out Google Custom Search, a special technology that allows the users to build their own search engine and place it on their website. Every once in a while, it updates the product in order to make it even more powerful and efficient for the consumers' ...

13 July 2007
03:19 GMT

Blogger's Father Leaves Google

Jason Shellen is one of the employees that joined the Mountain View company when Google acquired Blogger in February 2003. After a long period of time in which Jason worked for the blog service, he also contributed to the evolution of Google Reader and Picasa, two other solutions powered by Google that are now having...

12 July 2007
05:21 GMT

How to Create an Online Poll in Seconds

Some time ago, the Mountain View company Google introduced a new feature for Blogger in draft, the testing platform of the blog service that tries all the new functions meant to be implemented into the final product. The Poll feature enables users to create a poll for their blog in a matter of seconds using a simple ...

12 July 2007
04:14 GMT

Beware: A Blogger Might Spend 12 Months in Prison!

An interesting case was reported in Hong Kong where Olwan Lam, a blogger who wrote about pornography, might a face a sentence of 12 months in prison. In addition, he may have to pay for approximately HK$400.000. Why, you'll ask. Well, it all started when the blogger, being disappointed by the country's auth...

12 July 2007
03:42 GMT

If You Have a Blog, You Should Really Read This!

It's all about your blog's feed and the FeedBurner integration. As you might know, FeedBurner is a nice and easy-to-use solution able to track your blog and provide you useful information about the visitors. Even if it's very powerful, numerous consumers avoided using the service because they found it ...

12 July 2007
03:18 GMT

Google's Blog Service Now in Romanian

Google's blog service Blogger is now available in multiple languages besides the 19 ones that were already included in the solution. Among the new languages added to Blogger we can mention Romanian, Hindi, Portuguese and Hungarian. Blogger was first launched in August 1999 and was acquired by the Mountain View c...

28 June 2007
05:17 GMT

How to Upload a Video on Your Blog

The popular Blogger is continuously receiving a lot of new updates, most of them enhancing the posting abilities offered to the users. For example, the parent company Google added today a new function to the blogging service that allows you to upload a clip stored on your computer. Until now, it was extremely easy to...

14 June 2007
03:06 GMT

Microsoft Enhances the Google Products

Google's blogging service is compatible with numerous offline applications that allow you to create and publish the articles when you go online. The most important of them, Windows Live Writer for Windows and MarsEdit for Macintosh, were recently updated and improved with the latest features bundled into the blo...

13 June 2007
02:49 GMT

Up to $100 for Every Google User!

If you want to earn some money with ease, then this is probably the simplest way to receive it, because Google wants to pay up to $100 for every user registered for a simple survey. The new study concerns Google's Blogger, the largest blog community on the Internet. According to the information provided by the s...

22 May 2007
14:21 GMT

Google's Blog Service Is Dead!

Google officially announced that the old version of Blogger - the largest blog community on the Internet - was abandoned, the company aiming to improve only the newer edition. Although the latest release of Blogger was first introduced on August, 14, 2006 as a beta an on December 19, 2006 as a final product, many use...

7 May 2007
04:07 GMT

Google Blocked In Ethiopia

Millions of blogs created with Google's Blogger are unavailable in Ethiopia, the users criticizing the local authorities for censorship. It seems that it all started when the Horn of Africa, a peninsula of East Africa, blocked several services in the country including the Google Blogger. As you might know, Blogg...

3 May 2007
06:05 GMT

"Ik houd van u" Blogger!

Blogger represents the main blog service on the Internet, allowing users to build their own blog in just a few minutes. Since the search giant started to promote the product, Blogger was improved several times receiving even a new version containing new features, new interface and improved functionality. Today, the p...

12 April 2007
02:56 GMT

Blogger Improved with Attractive Widgets

Some time ago, the search giant introduced multiple Ajax utilities to be added on the websites designed by Google's users and allow them to offer useful functions to the visitors. Two of them, the news and the video bar, are now compatible with Blogger, allowing webmasters to add the tools to the website and pre...

2 April 2007
03:07 GMT

Fake Blog Scam Hits Google's Blogger

Google's Blogger is surely the most popular blog service on the Internet because it is powered by the search giant and provides numerous powerful features. It seems like Blogger is no longer a safe place because it is now the target of several spam attempts launched by hackers from every corner of the world. The...

28 March 2007
10:47 GMT

Blogger Adds Hindi Feature

Blogger, the most popular blog service on the Internet, aims to become the most updated product of the search giant as the company reveals more and more improvements. Today, Blogger receives another update that will allow the service to convert Roman characters into Hindi. As you might know, Hindi is an Indo-European...

9 March 2007
05:27 GMT

Picasa Web Albums - Blogger Interoperability

Yesterday, Google announced major updates for Picasa Web Albums, increasing the file storage size to 1 GB among with other interesting improvements. Today, the company reveals one more update for Picasa, adding interoperability with Blogger, the most popular blog service on the Internet. The blog owners are now able ...

9 March 2007
02:41 GMT

Slight Changes for Google Search

Once in a while, Google tries to improve its search engine with new functions to make the technology even more powerful and attractive. As you surely know, Google owns more than a single search technology, allowing users to search for many types of information such as news, websites, videos, jobs and even blog posts....

2 March 2007
02:53 GMT




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