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A few months ago we mentioned that Blogger was turning 10 years old later this year. That day is almost upon us — just six days away in fact — and we’ve been hard at work trying to think about what we could give you to celebrate. Wait, what? What we could give you? That’s…

When you publish a public blog post, you want to share it with the world—immediately! Blogger helps by feeding your posts to subscribers all over the web. Unfortunately, while we really want things to be as speedy as possible, sometimes it can take a while for the bits to travel through the intertubes. We’re happy…

Tweeting your new blog posts is a great way to engage your readers, and something that many on the team have taken advantage of for our own blogs. An easy way to do this is through Twitterfeed, which automatically updates Twitter with each new blog post. Here’s how to set it up: Head on over…

(cross posted from Blogger In Draft) Calling all Developers! We’ve just launched several extensions to the Gadget API that will enable developers to build more relevant and engaging gadgets for Blogger. As you may already know, every Blogger blog is a gadget container. What’s more, every blog is an OpenSocial gadget container powered by Friend…

Periodically, we profile a Blogger partner that can add functionality to your blog. This week we’d like to spotlight Lijit, a company building “search powered web applications for publishers” (that’s you!). Lijit has made adding its “wijit” as easy as could be—just fill in your blog’s URL and complete the sign-up wizard, you’ll be good…

(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.) Google’s about to have its second tenth birthday. In late August, Blogger will officially turn 10 years old. As our birthday draws near, we thought it would be interesting to share some fun facts about Blogger: Every minute of every day, 270,000 words are written on Blogger Millions of…

Image by chucks via Flickr We’re always looking for tools to make blogging easier, and a number of us on the Blogger team have become big fans of Zemanta. Zemanta is a browser plug-in for Firefox and IE, and is available as a bookmarklet for Chrome and Safari. (More details here, you can download your…

Many of you have asked about Blogger templates. You’ve posted in the help forums, you’ve tweeted, one of our engineers actually got stopped in a coffee shop to talk about Blogger’s classic templates. And by “classic” we mean “old”. We found that many of you weren’t aware of a wealth of third party sites offering…

Today we’re bringing the Search Box gadget out of Blogger in Draft and making it available to everyone. With this gadget, your readers will be able to search not just your posts, but web pages linked from your blog, your blog list, and link lists. To add the gadget, go to your blog’s Layout page,…

Two weeks ago we asked for your feedback about what you’d like to see on Blogger, and you’ve responded overwhelmingly! Since we opened the Product Ideas forum, we’ve received over 60,000 votes from 2500 users on 1500 different suggestions. We’re very interested in the ideas we’ve seen so far, and hope that you keep them…