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Blogger Play: Watch the blogs go by
September 14, 2007
Today we’re pleased to launch
Blogger Play
, a neat little toy we’ve cooked up to show you photos and blog posts as you’ve never seen them before.
Image credit:
kiwisweden
Shortly after Blogger launched photo uploading two years ago, one of our engineers whipped up a web page that would show us
the pictures that were being uploaded in real time
. The result was fun, often beautiful, but above all, compelling.
We couldn’t stop watching
.
Over the years we’ve kept this photo scroller as part of the Blogger offices, on a monitor or projector, as an interesting (distracting?) slideshow, and a reminder of the diversity and vivaciousness of Blogger blogs. The fame of the scroller spread within Google, until one day we were asked, “so,
when
are you launching this?”
“Um...,” we replied. But we knew a good idea when we heard one. We got our UI people to come up with buttons and fadey effects and we got our engineers to make the whole thing fast and robust. A bit of work later, and now we can share it with all of you:
http://play.blogger.com/
Blogger Play
will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs.
You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it. We also wrote a
Blogger Play FAQ
with more information.
A caveat: we use many techniques, including Google’s
SafeSearch
technology, to keep the images clean. Nevertheless,
on rare occasions an image that you may find vulgar or obscene will slip through our algorithmic filters
. Google does not pre-screen the images that appear in Blogger Play, nor is it responsible for their content. To report a terms of service violation, you may fill out
this contact form
.
FoxyTunes adds Blogger support
September 13, 2007
Hey
Firefox
users! The folks at
FoxyTunes
just added Blogger support to their
Firefox plugin
, which you can use to do a
number of things
, such as:
Control your favorite music-playing app from your browser
See what you’re currently listening to
Append your current song to the bottom of new blog posts
Check it out
!
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