July 11, 2007

Attention FeedBurner Fans
FeedBurner users - we just added a feature for you. Matt's post on the FeedBurner blog explains it more fully, but in short, you can now specify a URL to which Blogger will redirect your feed's traffic. This means you'll no longer have some subscribers getting your Blogger-hosted feed while others get your FeedBurner feed, and your subscriber count should (as a result) be more accurate.To enable this functionality, visit your blog's Settings Site Feed page, and enter your feed's address in the "Post Feed Redirect URL" field.Enjoy!Note: this feature isn't limited to FeedBurner alone - you can use any feed-mashing service (like Pipes) with it.
Labels: feedburner
posted by Eric at 4:28 PM links to this post

Polls: out of draft!
As of today, the Polls feature has graduated from Blogger in Draft, and is now an official Page Element on www.blogger.com! Polls lets you add a poll to your blog's sidebar, which your visitors can vote on and see results. This video shows how to create a poll:

For more information about the Polls feature, see these posts on the Draft blog.
Labels: polls
posted by Eric at 4:09 PM links to this post
July 09, 2007

Twitter badge for Blogger
Our friends at Twitter just released a nifty new web badge, which you can use to easily display your Twitter updates in your blog's sidebar:http://twitter.com/badges/blogger(if you're unfamiliar with Twitter, its FAQ states that, "Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends. Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless!")
Labels: twitter
posted by Eric at 3:59 PM links to this post
June 27, 2007

Blogger in draft: updates
Blogger in draft has some new features, if you're keen to tinker with (and give us feedback on!) some in-development stuff. Notably:
Polls, which you can add to your blog sidebars
Enclosures, which turn your blog feeds into pod/video-castsPete even posted some fun screencasts to show how they work: Polling, Enclosures and videocasting. Let us know what you think!
posted by Eric at 10:50 AM links to this post

Blogger: now in even more languages
You may have noticed a new dropdown menu in your Blogger Dashboard:In it are 17 new languages, in addition to the 19 that were there previously - tell your friends around the world! Here's the list of new ones:
български
hrvatski
Català
česky
Ελληνικά
Hindi
magyar
Indonesia
latviešu
lietuvių
polski
Português (Portugal)
Română
slovenčina
slovenščina
Українська
Tiêng Viêt
posted by Eric at 10:35 AM links to this post
June 13, 2007

Introducing Blogger... in draft
Today we released something for Blogger that we've long wanted to do - an experimental version of the site where the early adopters among you can try out new features before they're ready for full release. We're calling it Blogger in draft because the features are almost ready for publishing, but not quite.The first feature available on Draft is Video Upload, accessible via a new button in the Post Editor. Check it out!
Labels: draft
posted by Eric at 4:40 PM links to this post
June 12, 2007

Two updates to Blogger clients
By coincidence, a pair of stellar blogging clients have seen major updates in the past several days. If you like using Blogger but have browser-o’-phobia, one of these might be right for you:The Windows Live Writer team has released Beta 2 of their software, which adds labels support along with the proverbial host of other features. Developer and friend of Blogger Joe Cheng covers the highlights and lowlights on his blog, and you can grab the beta for Windows Vista and XP over at the download page.In the Macintosh corner, Red Sweater Software’s MarsEdit has been updated to version 1.2, adding Blogger photo upload support via Picasa Web Albums. Developer Daniel Jalkut (also a friend of Blogger) describes the update on Red Sweater’s blog. You can download a 30 day trial (Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher) from the MarsEdit page.For bonus additional Blogger goodness (for Mac users), grab the newly updated, newly working again Blogger Dashboard widget from Google’s widget page. F12 + typing = blog post.Working on a Blogger client of your own? Make sure you’re hanging out in the Blogger Dev group to chat and keep in touch.
posted by Pete at 9:02 PM links to this post
June 01, 2007

Blogger @ Pixelodeon
Attention Videobloggers!A few of us from the Blogger team will be attending the first-ever Pixelodeon Fest next weekend, at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.If you'll be going, we'd love to chat with you! Here's a description of the festival from their site:
"Pixelodeon is an annual independent video festival recognizing innovation, inspiration, and community in global online video. This is our inaugural year! Over 300 videos, four keynote speakers, two dozen curators, and several hundred people interested in independent media will get together in one weekend to celebrate the diversity and talent of online video content. If you want to see what’s happening online and meet the people who are making it happen, this is the place to be."Update: Here's a great current.tv spot about Pixelodeon.
Labels: conference, pixelodeon, videoblogging
posted by Eric at 4:29 PM links to this post
May 22, 2007

Learn how to add an image to your blog's header
Our friend Ryanne has been asking us for an easy way to add an image to her blog’s header for a few months now. When we added the feature a few weeks back, she was excited enough to create a screencast to teach everyone how to do it:Also, a plug: Blogger is sponsoring Pixelodeon, a vlogging conference Ryanne is co-organizing, happening June 9th and 10th in Los Angeles, CA. A few of us from Blogger will be attending - go there!
posted by Pete at 8:15 PM links to this post
May 21, 2007

Test Blogger and We’ll Love You and Pay You
You can help us out and make money just by using Blogger! From time to time at Blogger we run usability studies to make sure that we’re on the right track with all the new features we’re working on.If playing with Blogger for an hour or so and making up to $100 sounds like something you’d like to do, please sign up here. Have more questions? Read the FAQ. You don’t even have to live near Mountain View, CA to participate