Google Launches Google+ Commenting System For Blogger, Coming To The Rest Of...
Google today announced that bloggers on its Blogger publishing platform can now enable a new Google+-powered commenting system for their sites. This means Blogger users can now use Google+ as a...
View ArticleTwitter Co-Founder Evan Williams' Blogging Platform Medium Opens Signups To All
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has a new blogging platform called Medium, which has been a closed-signup affair since its introduction. Today, the platform sent out an email with the news that anyone...
View ArticleGoogle Bans Sexually Explicit Content From Blogger (Update: There Will Be No...
Google is banning adult content from websites hosted on Blogger from next month, after the company updated regulations governing the use of media on its blogging service. Read More
View ArticleGoogle Brings HTTPS Support To Blogspot
Over the last few years, Google brought support for encrypted HTTPS connections to almost all of its products, including search, Gmail and Google Drive. It’s now even using HTTPS support as a ranking...
View ArticleGoogle enables HTTPS for all Blogspot sites
Google today made HTTPS connections the default for all of the sites on its Blogspot domain. Google first enabled HTTPS for Blogspot last September, but at the time, it was an opt-in feature. Starting...
View ArticleTesla’s weird week
It’s been a weird few days for Tesla. In a span of just 72 hours, the Model S was accused of having major suspension issues, the NHTSA supposedly got involved, Tesla explained there is nothing wrong...
View ArticleAs Blogger Nears Its Tenth Birthday, It Still Dominates. But For How Long?
Never underestimate the power of first-mover advantage, especially when being one of the first movers gets you bought by Google . Back in August, 1999, Pyra Labs launched Blogger. LiveJournal had...
View ArticleBefore There Was Twitter, There Was Blogger. And It's Turning 10.
What were you doing in 1999? Maybe you were following the Kosovo War. Maybe you were starting to use Napster. Maybe you were entering your senior year of high school (I was). Or maybe you started...
View ArticleBlogger Buzz Blog Is Trying To Communicate With Us
Google’s Blogger Buzz blog may not the best of places to get hit by spam. And we’re not talking comment spam, we’re talking post spam, as you can tell from the screenshot above. Unless it wasn’t...
View ArticleDutch Music Rights Association Plans To Charge $32 Per Embedded YouTube Video
Buma/Stemra, a Dutch collective rights society that represents the interests of copyright holders (some 19,000 composers, authors and publishers), is the topic of the day in the Dutch blogosphere and...
View ArticleVideo: The Early Days Of Pyra Labs / Blogger (Featuring @Ev Williams)
We got a tip about a video from the same people who made us – and subsequently, you – aware of Biz Stone‘s 2006 video-recorded attempt to explain ‘Twttr’ when the service that became Twitter was still...
View ArticleGoogle Pays $75 In Gift Checks To Test New Blogger Features On Windows PCs
At least 18 years old? Own a Windows PC? Have 60 minutes to spare? Google wants you to test usability of its Blogger service on your own computer, and is prepared to give you $75 in American Express...
View ArticleGoogle Adds Real-Time Stats To Blogger – To Google Analytics Next?
Blogger, Google’s blog publishing platform, has just been given a useful new feature many a Blogger user will appreciate: near real-time statistics (via Louis Gray). Dubbed Blogger Stats, the feature...
View ArticleReport: Blogger Most Reliable Blogging Platform As Tumblr Tumbles On
Uptime monitoring service Pingdom has tested five major blogging services for their reliability. Unsurprisingly given its recent woes, micro-blogging startup Tumblr received a disastrous score, while...
View Article(Founder Stories) Why David Karp Started Tumblr: Blogs Don't Work For Most...
In the never-ending debate between blogging and micro-blogging, Tumblr usually gets lumped in with Twitter and Facebook on the micro-blogging side. But Tumblr is actually somewhere in between the...
View ArticleHalf A Billion Blog Posts Later, Google To Give Blogger A Revamp
Google’s blogging service Blogger has been used for over half a billion blog posts (with over half a trillion words in total) to date, writes product manager Chang Kim on the Blogger Buzz blog. Those...
View ArticleGoogle+ Builds Stronger Ties To Blogger, Now Lets You Mention Other Users In...
If you’re using Blogger for your daily personal or business writings, you might be happy to know that it has gotten a bit more of the Google+ social treatment. You can now mention anyone on Google+...
View ArticleWordPress.com Has Imported 15M Posts In The Last 30 Days, Remains A Top Safe...
Here’s a familiar scenario: You’ve become bored with the current blogging platform you’re on or it decides to shut down like Posterous did after Twitter acquired it. What do you do with all of your...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Google+ Commenting System For Blogger, Coming To The Rest Of...
Google today announced that bloggers on its Blogger publishing platform can now enable a new Google+-powered commenting system for their sites. This means Blogger users can now use Google+ as a...
View ArticleTwitter Co-Founder Evan Williams’ Blogging Platform Medium Opens Signups To All
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has a new blogging platform called Medium, which has been a closed-signup affair since its introduction. Today, the platform sent out an email with the news that anyone...
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