OpenID commenting is now live for all Blogger users, not just Draft users. A few updates with this release:OpenID icons now appear on Post Pages in addition to comment.g; they have their own CSS class (openid-comment-icon) in case you'd like to customize their displayNicknames with "www" in their URLs are now correctly parsedComments from Blogger/Google accounts now have the Blogger faviconIf your blog allows anonymous comments, OpenID-signed comments are enabled by default. Otherwise, you can turn on OpenID signed comments by restricting your...
Friday, 14 December 2007
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Our new Subscription Links page element makes it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog's feeds. We've added one-click subscriptions to six popular feed readers: iGoogle, Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes, NewsGator, and My Yahoo!. Since you can now put your feed links in your sidebar instead of just at the bottom of your blog, more readers will see them and subscribe to your blog.In addition to blog posts, your readers can subscribe to...
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Blogger in Draft now lets you enable OpenID-based commenting, in your blogs' Settings | Comments tab:(OpenID comments work in both the Anyone and Registered Users modes)This means that users of OpenID-enabled services — such as LiveJournal and WordPress — can comment on your blog using their accounts from those sites, rather than with Blogger/Google accounts:For example, if you see an OpenID comment with the URL http://brad.livejournal.com/, you'll...
Friday, 26 October 2007
We’ve added some fun new functionality to Blogger in Draft: Google Gadgets for your blog. This feature lets you add pretty much any Google Gadget to your blog’s sidebar.The Gadget directory is the same one used on iGoogle, which means there are thousands of Gadgets available for you to try. (Note: since most Google Gadgets were designed for iGoogle, they won’t all make sense for display on a blog.)The Gadget directory is available directly in Blogger...
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
We just added a new feature to Blogger in Draft, the Search Box page element:It uses Google's Custom Search Engine to dynamically search over your blog's content, as well as anything you've linked to in your blog posts, and even your sidebar-based link lists and blogrolls. In other words, it's really nifty - you can find it in your blog's Template | Page Elements tab, in the "Add a Page Element" popup.Many thanks to the CSE and Ajax Search API teams...
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
If you’re looking around wondering where video upload or the polls page element are, make sure that you’re using Blogger in draft, not regular Blogger. You’ll know that you’re using Blogger in draft if you see the blueprint logo in the upper left of the page:Blogger in draft is available only on draft.blogger.com. You’ll need to type it in directly (or bookmark it!). If you go to www.blogger.com, you won’t see the features that are still in draft...
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Today we’re saving two more features to Blogger in draft: Polls and enclosure links.The polls page element lets you add a poll to your blog’s sidebar. You choose the question and the answers, and let your readers vote. Learn more about polls.Enclosure links let you turn your blog into a podcast. If you’ve uploaded your audio or video to the web, you can link to it as an enclosure so that your readers can subscribe and download it using iTunes or...
The Polls page element is one of the new features we’ve added to Blogger in draft today. With this new page element, you can add a poll to your blog’s sidebar that your readers can vote in. Add as many answer choices as you like, and even select a date that you’d like the poll to close on.Here’s a quick video of putting the polls widget into action:We’d greatly appreciate your feedback on this feature and the other features on Blogger in draft. Leave your thoughts in the comments!All new features on Blogger in draft are works in progress. We’ve...
The other feature launched to Blogger in draft today is support for enclosure links. If you haven’t heard of “enclosures” before, they’re the bits of info in Atom and RSS feeds that make podcasting possible. With the new enclosure links UI, you can turn your blog into a podcast quite easily.To turn on enclosure links, just go to Settings > Formatting and set the “Show Link fields” option to “Yes.” This will add the enclosure link fields to your post editor. From there, just paste in the URLs of your recorded media, and your blog will instantly...
Friday, 22 June 2007
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Thanks to all who commented about Blogger in draft’s video upload feature! It’s been almost a week now, so here are some responses:Bugs: Autoplay on IE6, spaces in filenamesWe fixed the autoplay problem with Internet Explorer, so now videos will only play when your visitors click on them. We also fixed the error that occurs when you upload a video with spaces in the filename.Unable to see the video upload iconMake sure that you’re logging in to http://draft.blogger.com/ and using either Firefox or Internet Explorer. Because video upload is tied...
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Today we're announcing an exciting new feature, video upload, and an exciting new place to use it: Blogger in draft. We’re excited.You can think of draft as Blogger’s laboratory: it has features that we’re playing around with, trying out, and aren’t ready to “publish” to the main site.Our first drafted feature is video upload. We’ve added a new button to the post editor () that pops up a dialog you can use to upload a video right into your blog post....
Frequenty Asked Questions for Video Upload on Blogger in draftWhy can’t I see the video upload icon?The icon will only be visible in browsers that support the Compose mode editor (Firefox and Internet Explorer) and only when you’re logged in to draft.blogger.com.Where are my videos hosted?Videos uploaded through Blogger are hosted on Google Video.Are my videos indexed or searchable?No, your videos are kept private and will not be included in Google Video search.How long does it take to upload and process a video?Uploading a video may take a while,...
Blogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before releasing them to everyone. Think of it as our sandbox, or laboratory, or just “Blogger + new things.” By taking your feedback and looking at what works and what doesn’t, we’ll be able to make features that much better when releasing them to everyone.How can I use Blogger in draft? How can I stop using Blogger in draft?To try out Blogger in draft, just go to http://draft.blogger.com/ and log in. If you want to stop using it and go back to “normal” Blogger, simply...
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