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How Google Blogger was Invented? A True Story

  • On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs.
  • At first Blogger was entirely free and there was no income model. When Pyra Lab’s money was about to end, the employees worked without pay for weeks, even months.  This caused a lot of employees to leave the company. Evan Williams, who is the co founder of Blogger, ran the company exclusively by himself after the loss of income.  He then was lucky to fasten an investment by Trellix. Soon after, advertising started supporting Blogger, and Blogger professionally emerged.
  • In 2004, after the Google’s acquisition of Picasa, Google integrates its photo sharing utility allowing the users to post photos to their blog.
  • In May 2004, a major redesign was introduced, the features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email was added.
  • In August 2006, Beta version of Blogger was launched, codenamed "Invader".
  • In May 2007, blogger moved to Google’s dedicated servers.
  • In January 2009, Blogger allowed BlogSpot users (without own domain) to sign up with Google Adsense.

Google Blogger

Drastic Redesigns

In December 2006, drastic changes took place. Blogger was taken out of its beta version and totally moved over Google operated servers. This made Blogger claimed that the service was more reliable due to the quality of the servers provided by Google. There were new features introduced due to the Google’s dedicated servers.  These features included, a drag and drop template-editing interface, label organization, and new web feed options.  In addition the blogs were updated enthusiastically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.

Integration of Tools

  • A free add-in for Microsoft Word named, “Blogger for Word”. It enables the user to save a Word document on their Blogger’s blog so that they can also edit their post on and offline. But in early 2007, Google showed uncertainty about its compatibility with newer version of Blogger; however MS Word 2007 adds native support for many blogging systems including Blogger.

  • Google toolbar has a feature called “BlogThis”, which allows the user of Bloggers to post links directly to their blogs.

Blog This by Google
  • Google's AdSense is supported by Blogger for generating revenue from running a blog.

  • Blogger offers multiple author support, making it possible to establish group blogs.

 

Today Blogger is amongst the world's top ten websites and there are [a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2008/03/blogger-tips-and-tricks.html" target="_blank"]tonnes of tutorials written on it daily[/a]. This was just a brief history of the great Google blogger in a nutshell to give you some history knowledge of this great service that many of us are addicted to. I just hope you liked it. If you know something new with regard to how Blogger actually came into being then feel free to share it. We love sharings. :)

 umair-khanUmair Ahmed Khan


About the Guest Author:

Umair is an Undergraduate Student, pursuing his B.E Degree in Computer and Information System Engineering. He has a desire to develop IPhone and Android applications in future. You can contact him always at his [a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/umairkhan.cis"]Facebook[/a]

Source: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/05/how-google-blogger-was-invented-true.html

1 comments :

Anonymous said...

Hi Umair Ahmed Khan :) I'm inspired to see your performance and hope from you that you will be done much better in your Google blogging work. Thank you so much!
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