Blogger Launches New Blog List Feature

Blogger launched a new page element for Blogger templates yesterday. You can now add a Blog List to your site. Something to note about these new Blog Lists is that they are search engine friendly. The links will pass PageRank to the links in your Blog List and will help attribute their reputation, as PageRank [...]

Yahoo! Uses WordPress, Google Uses Blogger

Something I have noticed more and more lately is what software powers corporate blogs. Sure, I understand that eBay is using WordPress, that CNN is using WordPress, even that the MozillaZine Weblogs are powered by Movable Type. That’s cool, I understand all that. But something I don’t understand is why Yahoo! is using WordPress. Yahoo! [...]

GrandCentral Announces First Google Product Migration

Blogger is announcing the first integration of recently acquired GrandCentral. With this integration, Blogger will let bloggers place a “call me” button on their page. The next question will be, how many bloggers will want their visitors to be able to call them up? I, for one, would be perfectly fine with it. The only [...]

Graham Waldon Joins Team Xoogler

Eric says it the best, that “we’re saying our collective goodbyes to Graham Waldon, one of the longest-serving members of the Blogger team at Google.” It certainly looks like he’ll be keeping busy though. Here are a few of the things he writes that he will be doing in the coming months, posted back in [...]

Javascript Hackers Invited to Hackathon at Google

Yesterday, Google announced the 2008 Hackathon to be held at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. As far as I can tell, it’s not a contest, but just a time to get together. “The event is open to anyone in the community that wants to learn about some Google API’s, do some coding, or ask [...]

You Blog, Google Listens

“Two fixes just went live, before we sign off for a brief holiday break:

Unregistered commenters can once again provide an auto-linked URL [Help Group Thread]
Images in the Header page element will no longer be cropped vertically [Help Group thread]

We apologize for having broken these features for you. Your blogs and Help Group posts showed us the true extent to which you used and cared about these features, so please let us know if they’re still being problematic.”
It seems that at least one of the Google teams listens to the public and what we want.

Guest Posting for Google

This one comes directly from the official Google Maps API blog. Joe Monahan writes a guest post as an Orbitz.com employee. But since when has Google allowed guest posters to write, let alone link back to their company site? There is a nice little disclaimer at the end of his article though, “Disclaimer: These views are mine and not the views of OWW or (subsidiary). I am not a spokesperson for OWW or (subsidiary) and neither OWW nor (subsidiary) endorse any material, content and/or links or assume any liability for any of my actions.” Maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else think it’s a little weird that someone is guest posting on an official Google blog?

Blogger Now Accepts OpenID Commenting

Blogger recently did some testing and published the new feature to allow OpenID users to login and comment. This is great for a whole host of reasons. The first being that OpenID is finally getting more recognition. It’s a great concept — but I do have to admit that it still needs more improvements to become universal. The feature announcement gives a great detailed layout of how to use the new functionality and how you can easily integrate it into your Blogger site.

HOWTO: Migrating from Blogger to WordPress

I couldn’t write it any better, especially since I don’t use Blogger myself, but here is an awesome HOWTO guide on migrating from Blogger to Wordpress. http://www.mamablogga.com/the-ultim…ger-to-wordpress/

Google Without Freedom of Speech

After having been criticized for hosting a gay and lesbians bashing website, Google was prompted to take some sort of action. As a preliminary action Google put up a banner warning visitors that it could be bad for those faint of heart. “We will act to remove blogs which are in clear breach of our terms and conditions,” Rachel Whetstone, director of corporate communications for Google Europe, told PinkNews.co.uk So what was it? Was it a “breach” of terms and conditions or a breach of the first amendment? A little hard to say at this point, but I’m sure more news will follow this action by Google. It’s not something to take lightly because if it happened to this site, who’s to stop them from doing it to your blog?