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New Features in the Next Blogger Release
By Brian | August 17, 2006 | Share on Facebook
Google has released a new beta version of Blogger (which powers this blog). I’ll probably wait until it goes live to use it, but there are some mildly interesting new features. The virtual tour is here, and my comments on the features are here:
- Drag & drop editing of the template. Cute, but I prefer to write it myself (or use MSFrontPage for the very obvious stuff).
- Support for multiple authors. This is very interesting to me, as I can envision blogs that I’d be happy to share in, but wouldn’t have time to maintain on my own.
- Private blogs – allowing only certain readers to read the blog. Maybe cool for some. For me, meh…
- New stock templates. Ho hum. I never used their templates – choosing instead to make the blog look like a part of the overall site.
- More feed options: Separate feed for comments (I was just telling Jeff Porten that he was the only blogger I know that had a separate RSS feed for his comments. Now I know why. Blogger will also allow for separate feeds for each post’s comments, but that strikes me as overkill…
- Updated dashboard. Will have to see this one to judge it. I’m pretty happy with what’s there now, but knowing Google, the new interface will be very cool…
- Instant publishing. This is really cool, although I’m not sure what they mean (there must be some concept of publishing if they’re putting content on a server & reformatting the blog page…) Maybe they just mean you don’t have to click the button anymore? If so, it may be a cool usability feature, but not a big deal at all.
That’s all they’re saying right now. Anyone else here anything about the product?
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