Blogger (service)

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**Blogger** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
URL	http://www.blogger.com<tr><th>Commercial?</th><td>Yes</td></tr>
Type of site	Blog host<tr><th>Registration</th><td>Optional, Free</td></tr>
Owner	Google Inc.
Created by	Pyra Labs

This article is about the blogging service. For a person who maintains a blog, see Blogger.

Blogger is a weblog publishing system owned by Google since 2003. Blogger enables blogs to be hosted on its own servers (http://www.blogger.com/ with the blog created as a subdomain of blogspot.com, i.e. foo.blogspot.com) or on the server of the blogger's choosing, transferred via FTP or SFTP.

1 History
2 Other features
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs in August 1999. 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 that Pyra charged for to be free. About a year later, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google.

Google purchased Picasa in 2004; 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 including CSS-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by e-mail. Image:BlogThis! Window.png

On 17 July 2006, Blogger ran into controversy, when it was blocked by several Internet service providers in India.^{[citation needed]}

On 14 August 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta. New updates to Blogger include labels/tags, drag-and-drop template editing, permissions to who can read your blog, and integration with Google Accounts.

[edit] Other features

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 a free add-in for Microsoft Word. This add-in allows users to save a Microsoft Word Document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline.
Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a simple way of generating revenue from running a blog.