• marissa mayer

    How Google killed Blogger's social network

    The new "followers" feature on Google's Blogger, which turns the blogging service into a quasi-social network, may strike some as too little, too late — a me-too move following WordPress and Movable Type's adddition of social elements. But it didn't have to happen. Blogger had a full-fledged social network in the works years ago, called Profiles — and it was quashed by Marissa Mayer in favor of Orkut. Why? Mayer's own social network. More »

    9:40 AM on Fri Aug 29 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    2,326 views, 8 comments

    Most discussed Figaro: Well said Owen. I have a Blogger-based blog and have been blogging for about 3 years and don't remember last more »

  • cyberwar

    Claim: Russian hackers behind spam crime ring took over Georgia's national websites

    Before the Russian army pushed past the borders of breakaway republic South Ossetia and invaded Georgia's interior, Russian hackers took over Georgian government websites last Friday, taking control over a central government site as well as the homepages for the ministries of foreign affairs and defense. Researcher Jart Armin told Britain's Daily Telegraph he blames the attacks an organization called the Russian Business Network, which the Telegraph describes as a "a network of criminal hackers with close links to the Russian mafia and government." More »

    9:20 AM on Mon Aug 11 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    594 views, 1 comment

    Latest by categorically: Hey Russia... 1979 called an it wants its antiquated tanks and airplanes back. Jesus Boris, precision weapons means that they fall where more »

  • security

    Google's Blogger flooded by spammers

    Over the last few months, wily spammers may have figured out how to crack the security feature known as "captchas." With an army of compromised Windows PCs known as botnets, they've been using their new power to flood Google's Blogger with spam. Why Blogger? More »

    11:20 AM on Fri Apr 25 2008
    By Jackson West
    1,032 views, 4 comments

    Latest by DaveMcClure500Hats: wait... Google's Blogger is being used by spammers?!? NO, SRSLY?!?!?! Shocked, i am shocked. yo jackson, might want to wind your more »

  • dick costolo

    Former FeedBurner CEO on life after Google buy


    Dick Costolo used to be CEO of FeedBurner, a Chicago startup which publishes RSS feeds for websites. But then FeedBurner got acquired by Google. Now Costolo's got a "significant title" at Google, though, as he explains in this you video, "you can't tell by the words in it." Even before FeedBurner, Costolo used to work the standup mic. Here's the best Woody Allen impression you've ever seen. Laugh it up, fellow Googlers, but remember, there's truth in jest. How does Costolo really feel about Google? He posted the video to his blog using Tumblr and Vimeo, not the Google-owned Blogger and YouTube.

    9:18 AM on Tue Dec 11 2007
    By Nicholas Carlson
    1,597 views, 4 comments

    Latest by sggrf: With only sub-$10M in revenues he should be glad they gave him a job at all. more »

  • web apps

    What to use instead of Evite (and five other popular but terrible websites)

    Oh god, Evite. It starts with an email about a party with no information about that party, and then it gets worse. But in many cases there's no reason you have to use the most popular site. Here's what to use instead of Evite, YouTube, Blogger, Twitter, Digg, and MapQuest. More »

    Feature

    12:01 AM on Thu Oct 18 2007
    By Nick Douglas
    15,953 views, 10 comments

    Latest by gregrr: I've had some good luck using www.enclude.com instead of evite - has what I want like full event details in more »

  • hackers

    Google blogs hacked by malicious miscreants

    Google's blogging tool, Blogger, is suffering from a severe case of hackeritis. Hundreds of blogs were updated with short posts containing links to virus-laden downloads that either mine hard drives for personal data or turn the PC into a zombie to help propagate the attacks. Google is mum on the attack, and security experts haven't determined whether the hackers discovered a security flaw in Blogger or simply set up false blogs. It's apparently impossible to make the distinction, which should tell you something about the quality of most of the posts on Blogger.

    1:37 PM on Thu Aug 30 2007
    By Mary Jane Irwin
    656 views, 1 comment

    Latest by meanguy: Google Documents took a hit too -- they've rolled out some wonky temporary fix that has Google Documents jumping into more »

  • linkdump

    Loose Wires: One out of beta, dozens to go...

    • So, the new version of Blogger is finally out of beta! Yippee! But what about the dozens of other products, still stuck either in beta — even mainstays like Gmail — or in Google Labs? Just a few weeks ago, Valleywag readers said Joga Bonito will be the next to go. [BloggerBuzz]
    • Michael Arrington is disappointed in the Wall Street Journal's "attack on blogs." Says the WSJ: "The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps." Ouch! [Crunchnotes]
    • The most popular topics on Reddit? Politics and Internet & PC, apparently. [StatisticsFreak]
    • Web 2.0 comes to the Catholic Church! Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley to start podcasting. [SFGate]
    • The American Mac and PC were clearly better casted. [Apple via Zach Klein]

    10:07 AM on Thu Dec 21 2006
    By skidder
    98 views, 5 comments

    Latest by Andrew Ferguson: I originally started this comment intending to post the same article to you that Conrad Quilty-Harper has. I'd like to more »

  • google

    Googlers' Orkut profiles: The better parts

    Google Blogoscoped went and did it — the search blog revealed info from the Orkut profiles of major Googlers to the unwashed, uninvited masses. More »

    7:33 PM on Tue Jun 13 2006
    By Nick Douglas
    3,719 views, 5 comments

  • meg hourihan

    Geeking out: The Kottke-Hourihan wedding

    Wasn't that New York blogger wedding so grand? Oh dear, you weren't invited? No worries, neither was I. But we can peek at the wedding of Blogger founder Meg Hourihan's wedding to designer Jason Kottke. The highlights of Meg's Flickr set: More »

    9:19 AM on Thu Mar 30 2006
    By ndouglas
    514 views, 2 comments

    Latest by Nick Douglas: In attendance: - You, Six Apart - Meg Hourihan, Pyra of yore - Jason Kottke, ex-San Franciscan with Meg - Stewart Butterfield and Caterina more »