Blogger.com

Blogger is a weblog publishing system owned by Google since 2003. Blogger enables blogs to be hosted on its own servers (http://www.blogspot.com/) or on the server of the blogger's choosing, transferred via FTP or SFTP.

History

Blogger was launched in August 1999 as one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools; it is credited for helping popularize the form.

Blogger was started by Pyra Labs. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features that Pyra charged for to be free. About a year later, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google.

Google purchased Picasa in 2004; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello, into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.

On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features including CSS-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by e-mail.

On 17th July, 2006, Blogger ran into controversy, when it was blocked by several ISP's in India.

Other features

The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
"Blogger for Word" is a free add-in for Microsoft Word. This add-in allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline.
Direct posting to a Blogger site from Microsoft Word 2007.

External links

Blogger website
Official blogger status
2005 Interviews with Pyra Lab cofounders:
- Meg Hourihan interview (in MP3 format), summarized here, from IT Conversations
- Evan Williams interview (in MP3 format), summarized here, from Venture Voice
Summary of 2004 redesign, from the Blogger website
Sample, random blog

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History

Other features

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