Jun 13
Jun 13
Blogger clearly benefits from a larger screen, yet Android tablet owners haven’t had a native editing space since the Blogger app launched on their platform. Thankfully, Google is rectifying that problem today: the Android release now occupies a tablet’s full screen space while users compose and review their posts. The refresh also offers WYSIWYG editing for current entries, regardless of the screen size. However much they’ll use the improved workspace, would-be Android auteurs just have to swing by Google Play for the update.
Via: Android Police
Source: Google Play
Apr 18
It looks like Google is wandering in to Facebook territory, the latter has a comments system that websites owners can add, now the internet search giant has brought over Google+ comments for Blogger based websites. It seems as if Google is just testing the waters, perhaps in the near future they might allow platforms other than Blogger or WordPress to integrate Google+ comments as well. This new comments feature can be activated from the Blogger Dashboard, its purely opt-in and won’t be enforced on all websites based on Blogger.
People commenting on the blog will have the option to comment publicly or privately for their various Google+ circles. While reading comments, users can choose to view all comments, just the top ones or only those comments made by people in their circles. Website owners will be able to engage more of their readers, if someone’s talking about their blog entries publicly on Google+ those comments and replies will also appear on the blog. Older comments on any blog will continue to be displayed in the new widget. Who’s going to try this on their website?
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Apr 18
We haven’t been hearing a whole lot about Blogger amid all the changes at Google in recent months, but the company hasn’t entirely forgotten about the pioneering blogging platform it acquired way back in 2003. It’s today introduced Google+ Comments for Blogger, a fairly self-explanatory new feature that will let you bring G+ comments to your Blogger-based site. Blogger users can enable that feature in their dashboard, which will let them see both comments left directly on their blog and those made about their blog on Google+. Notably, it will also let users chose to either comment publicly or privately to only those in their Google+ circles — and, conversely, choose to only view comments from their circles instead of the teeming masses.
Source: Official Google Blog
Mar 13
Google announced that it’s killing off Google Reader effective July 1, 2013. Reader was Google’s web-based program that let people subscribe to news feeds from their favorite sites. That’s a shame, because Reader was pretty great.
Feb 17
Google Takeout’s export functions have slowly extended their reach from profiles and personal contacts to heftier material, such as all our videos. However much we’ve been using that data portability, Google is eliminating what few gaps are left in its coverage: the company’s Data Liberation Front has expanded Takeout to preserve both Blogger content as well as Google+ Pages. Web denizens can cherry-pick just the blogs or Pages they want if a whole-enchilada backup is too much. Regardless of how large a safety net we need, the new options are ready and waiting at the source links.
Via: Android Central
Source: Data Liberation Front, Google Takeout
Feb 16
Google Takeout now offers more support for those of you with a Blogger account and/or a Google+ page. Now through the Google Takeout service, you can export information contained inside of your Blogger account as well as information in your Google+ Stream or Google+ Circles. The Takeout feature is provided by The Data Liberation Front, a Google engineering team in charge of making it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.
For those of you who don’t know, the Google Takeout service is an impressive service that lets you export data contained in your Google accounts. You can export data from Google+,Google+ pages, Blogger, Buzz, Contacts, Drive, Latitude, Pages, Picasa, Reader, Voice, and YouTube.
Google Takeout previously offered its services for your personal Google+ account, but now if you have a Google+ page set-up for your business, or websites, you can export the data from those as well. The new Blogger support allows you to export data from your entire Blogger account, or you can choose to export only a single page or blog. The data will be exported as an Atom XML file. Your Google+ pages will be exported as HTML files containing your posts and JSON files containing the circles on your page.
The Google Takeout service is like taking a trip down memory lane. Viewing files and data from the entirety of your Google accounts is very nostalgic. Looking back to your very first posts can be mind-blowing, seeing how far you’ve come and how far you’ve changed over time. I’d highly recommend you try it out.
[via Data Liberation]
Google Takeout now offers more support for Blogger and Google+ is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nov 16
Google’s Blogger app updated with iPad support, landscape composition mode, Google+ integration
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Google’s Blogger app has hit version 2.0, bringing a visual revamp and a handful of new features to its iOS and Android flavors, in addition to iPad support. Now, users can compose posts in landscape mode, share to Google+ and view scheduled post times. In addition to a grab bag of unspecified bug fixes, the update brings the app’s total number of supported languages up to 30. Eager to start tapping out posts? Hit the source links below for the appropriate download.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Google
Google’s Blogger app updated with iPad support, landscape composition mode, Google+ integration originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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