Neowin News Feed for: Blogger

Facebook now lets you export posts and notes to other platforms

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:02:01 +0000

Facebook has announced an expansion of its data portability tool, now allowing users to export text posts and notes to platforms like Blogger. Photos and videos could already be exported. Read more...

Google loses blogspot.in domain breaking hundreds of thousands of links

Abhishek Baxi — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:36:01 +0000

Google seems to have lost ownership of its blogspot.in domain. The domain is part of Google-owned Blogger service and seems to have been picked up by a domain service provider. Read more...

7 Days: A week of Google porn, Net Neutrality, Lollipop updates, Xbox burgers and a Wankband

Vlad Dudau — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 10:26:01 +0000

From EU investigations into Google's practices, to Net Neutrality in the US to Xbox burgers in Hong Kong, it's been a busy and exciting week for tech. And Mobile World Congress is just starting! Read more...

Google won't block pornography on Blogger after all

Usama Jawad — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:41:57 +0000

Google won't block sexually explicit content on Blogger after all, following backlash from veteran bloggers who would otherwise have had their accounts banned by the end of next month. Read more...

Google to ban sexually explicit content and nudity on Blogger

Jerry Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:10:36 +0000

In a new policy, Google will ban images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger, but will still allow artistic, educational, documentary and scientific nudity. Read more...

Blogger kills Opera support; power play from Google/Chrome? [Update]

John Callaham — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:10:49 +0000

Google has posted up a message stating that the Opera web browser is no longer supported for Google's Blogger service and recommends using Google's Chrome browser instead. Read more...

Google's Blogger launches major new update

John Callaham — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:50:46 +0000

Google has launched a major new update for its Blogger web site development platform with a new user interface for editing blog sites and more. Read more...

Google has no plans to kill Blogger brand name

John Callaham — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:53:53 +0000

A few days ago rumors hit the Internet that as part of a change in branding for most of Google's divisions, the long running blogging company Blogger would soon dump that branding and change it... Read more...

Rumor: Google to rename Blogger and Picasa due to Google+ Launch

John Callaham — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:39:27 +0000

As Google continues to test out its newly launched Google+ social networking service, a new report today claims that Google will soon rename two of its long running divisions as a way to help out... Read more...

Blogger still down; 30 hours of posts lost [Update: back up!]

Michael Collado — Fri, 13 May 2011 08:05:47 +0000

Google's blogging and online publishing service, Blogger, has been suffering from something that is all too familiar to one of its main rivals, Tumblr: the service has been down since around half past noon PDT... Read more...

Blogger vulnerability allows an attacker to gain admin rights

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:42:36 +0000

A blog post and video surfaced today showing how an attacker could quickly and easily gain administrative privileges to your Blogger account. The video does show off some complex techniques, but could easily be duplicated... Read more...

Nokia calls in Russian police to recover missing phone

Brandon Boyce — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:09:32 +0000

In an move reminiscent of Apple's recent fiasco with the iPhone 4, Nokia sent the police after a blogger to recover an unreleased smartphone. Eldar Murtazin published a harsh review of the Nokia N8 back... Read more...

Blogger adds Stats; what does it mean for Google Analytics?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:52:50 +0000

Blogger, the popular free blogging platform, just launched a new feature called Blogger Stats, according to TechCrunch. It gives a pseudo-real time overview of page visits, article popularity, and traffic source statistics, and it's available... Read more...

America to crack down on blogger payola

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:20:30 +0000

US regulators are to crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose money or gifts received from companies when reviewing their products. In the new policy from the Federal Trade Commission, offending bloggers could eventually... Read more...

China blocks Twitter and others

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:41:55 +0000

China has once again blocked a popular social networking web site, this time Twitter is on the latest block. China has been known in the recent past to block web sites like YouTube and... Read more...

Blogger demands Microsoft to release Windows 7 now

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:44:04 +0000

Windows 7 Beta has been getting good reviews since its release and many users who use the beta say this is going to be one of the finest releases so far from Microsoft after the... Read more...

CES 2009 Day 1 - Blogger Highlights

Brad Wardell — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:46:23 +0000

The Neowin team scoured the floor of CES yesterday. Me and the Stardock gang tried to visit the parts of CES that don't generally get as much attention. One doesn't need to attend... Read more...

World's oldest blogger signs off for the last time, aged 108

Steven Parker — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:04:27 +0000

An Australian woman renowned as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108. Her last post described her ailing health but also how she still sang a happy song every day. Olive... Read more...

Google introduces Blogger in Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:27:17 +0000

Google has rolled out three new languages for its blogging service: Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew – bringing the total number of languages the service is offered in to 40. Blogger now supports composing text and... Read more...

Blogger claims 10-year wait for Microsoft tech support call

Steven Parker — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:46:05 +0000

The semi-anonymous blogger whose account earlier this week about getting a tech support callback from Microsoft Corp. a decade later generated heavy interest and conspiracy theories among techies posted a follow-up late Wednesday, in which... Read more...

Kotaku Pays Blogger for Pictures, Thanks to Neowin & Digg

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:34:12 +0000

After Neowin posted a story about Kotaku taking pictures from Prince17's blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories, and the story made it to Digg's front page, the gaming news... Read more...

Kotaku Steals Pictures from a Blogger

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:11:56 +0000

One of our forum members has discovered that Kotaku, a popular gamers’ news site, is taking pictures from his blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories. Not only did Kotaku... Read more...

Another CNet Blogger Says No to Vista (SP1)

Steven Parker — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:47:31 +0000

Those guys over at CNet really have it in for Vista, this time it's Robert Vamosi suggesting that users that are waiting for SP1 to make the switch will be disappointed. In all fairness it... Read more...

Microsoft blogger accidentally leaks Office Mobile upgrade

Steven Parker — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:55:13 +0000

A Microsoft employee on Thursday accidentally blogged about an upgrade to Office Mobile that shouldn't be available for another couple of weeks. The upgrade, when it becomes available, should solve an incompatibility issue that left... Read more...

Google's Blogger fixes bug, adds video uploading

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:11:58 +0000

Google's Blogger team solved a technical problem Wednesday with the blog publishing and hosting service that affected an undetermined number of Blogger publishers with editing and posting operations on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, Blogger... Read more...

Google's Blogger Hit by Outage

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:16:12 +0000

Search-engine giant Google's Blogger blog publishing and Blogspot blog hosting services went offline earlier today. Among the organizations affected by this apparently widespread outage was Google itself, which hosts its official company blogs on Blogspot.... Read more...

Toronto blogger embarasses NASA climate experts

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:07:11 +0000

Stephen McIntyre, amateur meteorologist from Toronto, has embarrassed NASA scientists by catching an error in recent climate-change data: climatologists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Science (GISS) in New York now concede that 1934, not... Read more...

Egypt Blogger jailed for 'Insult'

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:26:10 +0000

An Egyptian court has sentenced blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. The trial, which took place in Soliman's native city of Alexandria, is the first time a... Read more...

Bugs in Blogger Prompt Complaints

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:04:17 +0000

Google Inc.'s Blogger service has been generating a steady stream of complaints from users this year, including hours-long outages, feature malfunctions and data loss. The problems are particularly frustrating to users who migrated to the... Read more...

Google Drops Beta Tag from Blogger

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:07:29 +0000

Google Blogger has officially left its beta tag behind. Google bought Pyra Labs in 2003 and introduce the beta version of "Blogger" last August. The Blogger web site now introduces "the new Blogger" on its... Read more...

Blogger "Goats" Microsoft RSS team blog

Steven Parker — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:45:18 +0000

Oh dear! What's the world coming too? Blogger Niall Kennedy was not happy that Microsoft RSS team blog hotlinked a picture without permission. The blogger replaced the picture with a male human being speading his... Read more...

US Court Expands Blogger Immunity

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:08:05 +0000

The California Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - such as bloggers - who use the Internet to distribute information from another source may not be held to account if the material is considered defamatory.... Read more...

Google's Blogger unblocked (again) in China

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:52:25 +0000

Google's free Web log service, Blogger, is once again accessible from Beijing without the use of a proxy server, indicating that apparent government efforts to block the site have been lifted. Access to Blogger... Read more...

"Voice of Microsoft" Blogger to Resign

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:46:10 +0000

Robert Scoble, the man who has been described as a human voice to the Microsoft corp. is to resign from his position in favour of the equally-geeky roll of technology podcaster at PodTech.net. His blog... Read more...

Court Rules in Favor of Anonymous Blogger

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:56:14 +0000

The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a decision by a lower court which required an ISP to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who targeted a local elected official. The decision was... Read more...

IE7 Has Tabs Says MS Blogger

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:39:38 +0000

Yes, IE7 has tabs. In general, I think tabs are a great idea. I liked them a lot in Office dialogs and in Excel in the early 90's. (I used to work on Office, and... Read more...

Blogger Fired, Sparks Online Fiasco

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:51:45 +0000

A variety of news outlets are reporting the departure of Mark Jen from Google. Jen, previously a member of the Adsense team, left Google earlier this month; a Spokesperson for the company confirmed the... Read more...

Microsoft Blogger : How can I trust Firefox?

Tom Warren — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:54:16 +0000

Microsoft employee Peter Torr has started a flame war in his own blog today. Torr claims that the distribution and code signing of Firefox isn't up to scratch. Torr provides screenshots of the latest XPSP2... Read more...

Google Updates Blogger website, Features

Mon, 10 May 2004 14:50:53 +0000

Thanks OrangeSoul for the heads up. Google plans to introduce on Monday a redesigned Web site for its personal publishing tool, Blogger. The new features are aimed at making it easier for average... Read more...