Blogger is a
blog-
publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by
Pyra Labs, which was bought by
Google in 2003.
Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a
subdomain of
blogspot.com. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.example.com).
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A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.[5]
Up until May 1, 2010, Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via
FTP.
All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers,
with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom
URLs.
[6]
Unlike
WordPress.com,
Blogger allows its users to use their own domain free of charge, while
WordPress.com charges around $13 to use a custom domain.
[7]
Blogger cannot be installed on a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom
URL to a blogspot domain.
[8]
History
On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by
Pyra Labs.
As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited
for helping popularize the format.
In February 2003, Pyra Labs was
acquired by
Google under undisclosed terms.
The acquisition allowed premium features (for
which Pyra had charged) to become free.
In October 2004, Pyra Labs'
co-founder,
Evan Williams, left Google. In 2004, Google purchased
Picasa; 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 such as
web standards-compliant
templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by
email.
On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in
beta,
codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to
Google servers and had some new features, including interface language
in French, Italian, German and Spanish.
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In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By
May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google-operated servers.
Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number
of unique visitors in 2007.
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On February 24, 2015, Blogger announced it will no longer allow its
users in late March to post sexually explicit content, unless the nudity
on offer "substantial public benefit," for example in "artistic,
educational, documentary, or scientific contexts."
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On February 28, 2015, accounting for severe backlash from long-term
bloggers, Blogger reversed its decision on banning sexual content, going
back to the previous policy that allowed explicit images and videos if
the blog was marked as "adult".
[12]
Redesign
As
part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's
Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the
service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers.
[13]
Along with the migration to
Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a
drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new
Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting
HTML files.
In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft,
[14] new features are tested before being released to all users. New features are discussed in the service's official blog.
[15]
In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part
of its tenth anniversary celebration.
The features included a new
interface for post editing, improved image handling,
Raw HTML Conversion, and other
Google Docs-based implementations, including:
- Adding location to posts via geotagging.
- Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
- Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
- Link editing in compose mode.
- Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and Mac OS.
- New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
- Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in compose mode.
- New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo"
and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a
strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website.
The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its
predecessor.
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Available languages
Blogger
is available in these languages: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan,
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati,
Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada,
Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian,
Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal),
Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil,
Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu Vietnamese. Nepali,
Farashi.Bemba,Tonga,Tumbuka and Cewa.
Country-specific blogger addresses
Starting
in February 2013, Blogger began integrating user blogs with multiple
country-specific URLs.
For example, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.com
would be automatically redirected to exampleuserblogname.blogspot.ca in
Canada, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.co.uk in the United Kingdom.
Blogger explained that by doing this they could manage the blog content
more locally so if there was any objectionable material that violated a
particular country's laws they could remove and block access to that
blog for that country through the assigned
ccTLD
while retaining access through other ccTLD addresses and the default
Blogspot.com URL.
However it should be noted that if a blog using a
country-specific URL was removed it is still technically possible to
access the blog through Google's No Country Redirect override by
entering the URL using the regular Blogspot.com address and adding /ncr
after the .com.
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Available designs
Blogger
allows its users to choose from various templates and then customize
them. Users may also choose to create their own templates using
CSS.
The new design template, known as "Dynamic View", was introduced on 31 August 2011
[18] with Dynamic Views being introduced on 27 September 2011.
[19] It is built with
AJAX,
HTML5, and
CSS3.
The time for loading is 40 percent shorter than traditional templates,
and allows user to present blog in seven different ways: classic,
flipcard, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, and timeslide.
Readers
still have the option to choose preferable views when the blog owner has
set a default view.
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Some of the widgets (e.g., Labels, Profile, Link List, Subscription
Links, Followers and Blog Archive etc.) are available for Dynamic Views;
other templates are chosen by the blogger.
In April 2013, Blogger updated its HTML template editor that has some
improvements to make it easy for the users to edit the blog's source
code. The editor was updated with syntax highlight, number line and
jump-to-widget button for ease of editing the code.
For over half a year dynamic views users were suffering from a
bug causing custom CSS and page navigation often not to load properly.
This happened because a
JavaScript routine rendered the page before it was loaded. A blogger user fixed the template and
published the fix.
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Integration
- 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 an add-in for Microsoft Word
which allows users to save a Microsoft Word document directly to a
Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of
January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible
with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been
made about supporting it with the new Blogger.[22] However, Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger.
- Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog.
- Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue.[23]
It was not publicly announced, but by September 2011 it appeared that
all integration options had been removed and that the partnership had
ended.[24]
- Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes directly to Blogger.
- Blogger can be optionally integrated with Google+.
- Google+ comments can be integrated with blogger comments.
- The Campaigns tab in Blogger dashboard links to Adwords making it easier to create ads .
- You may create and add HTML site map static page to your blogger
BlogSpot blogs using Blogger JSON Feed API which helps both website live
visitors as well as Search Engine bots.
Blogger on mobile devices
Blogger
has launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices.
Users
can post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger
through their mobile devices. Not only advanced mobile devices, such as
smartphones, are being considered, since users can also post blogs via
traditional cell phones by SMS and
MMS.
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Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS
The major two mobile
operating systems that Blogger focuses on are
Android and
iOS.
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Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere through the app and either
publish the blogs or save them as drafts. Quick navigation from posts
and drafts is accessible from a list.
Users can attach photos by taking a
picture with a Blogger app or selecting pictures from their photo
galleries. Sharing current locations on posts is also possible by
tabbing My Location bar and adding locations.
Users can also share
photos and links directly to Blogger.
Blogger also provides dynamic mobile views for the blogging
compatibility with mobile devices and smart phones.
They enhance the
readability accuracy on these smart devices, but editing a blog on the
blogger app remains an open issue for the users.
Source: Wikipedia.org: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)
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