The latest tips and news from the Blogger team
GrandCentral: receive calls and post voicemail with your blog
February 22, 2008
With
GrandCentral
, a free service from Google, you can receive phone calls and post voicemails right on your blog. Though GrandCentral is currently in a private beta test, bloggers can skip the wait and get a free account immediately.
Sign up now
WebCall Button
When you add GrandCentral’s
WebCall button
to your blog, your readers can easily call your phone or leave voicemails without ever seeing your telephone number.
You can screen calls, either accepting them or sending them to voicemail, and you can even block unwanted callers altogether. Learn how to
add a WebCall button to your blog
, and try it out for yourself below:
Voicemail Inbox
Your voicemail is all kept in a visual online inbox that is easy to manage. Store as many as you like for as long as you like, or
post them to your blog
so anyone can hear them. Here’s what it looks like to put a voicemail on your blog:
Sign Up Now
Ready to get started? Follow these links:
Sign up for GrandCentral
for free
Add a WebCall button
to your sidebar
Post your voicemails
to your blog
So long, and thanks for all the Help!
February 20, 2008
I'm saddened to have to do this
yet again
, but today we're saying our collective goodbyes to
Graham Waldon
, one of the longest-serving members of the Blogger team at Google. I was fortunate enough to have interviewed Graham before he
joined
us back in 2003, and after a few minutes of chatting I immediately knew he was our guy.
Over the years Graham’s provided amazingly patient and exemplary service to Blogger’s users, and set an impossibly high bar with his work — from constantly improving Blogger’s
Help
site, to personally answering countless help emails, to digging up fantastic
Blogs of Note
, to training new members of the Support team. He’s even moonlighted a bit, helping the
Reader
team with their support efforts!
Best of luck, Graham — it looks like you’ll be keeping
plenty busy
during the coming months, but be sure to swing by for lunch every now and then. ;)
- Eric and the rest of the Blogger team
Blogger now in Filipino
February 19, 2008
This is a quick post to announce that, in addition to Blogger’s
recent improvements and fixes
, we are now available in Filipino.
There is already a very strong blogging community in the Philippines, and we’re very happy to support that and be a part of it. Want a taste? Start with
our friend Aileen
and keep clicking!
Updates and Bug Fixes for February 12th
February 12, 2008
Today’s release brings a number of updates to Blogger:
Clearer identity options on the comment form, which now highlights some of the more popular OpenID providers more obviously.
Transliteration is now available in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu as well as Hindi
Posts with more than 200 comments have them split across multiple pages.
Layouts blogs now have a “Layouts” tab instead of “Template.”
We also made fixes to address bugs and other problems, including:
Better Persian translations and other BiDi layout fixes
A fix to the long-standing
incorrect label counts bug
Safari 3 support
for the Layouts template editor pages
Faster loading times for the post editor
Improved international support in the post editor’s date and time fields
Compatibility fixes for Picasa’s BlogThis! button
Nevertheless, there are two new issues that you should know about:
Comment pagination is
not yet available for Classic templates
The “Shrink to Fit” option in the Header and Picture page elements
only affects new photo uploads
(Curious about other problems? Browse and vote at the
Known Issues
blog.)
Update, 8:30PM:
Added new transliteration languages to features list
Update, 12:30PM:
Fixed embarrassing typo in this post’s title. (Thx,
Kamilia!
)
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