Renew Google Blogger-PCWorld

In Google the promotional video showcasing the improvements to Blogger in the course of 2011, the company asks: "have you looked at Blogger lately?" Chances are the answer is ' no '.

Blogger's new dashboard (click to enlarge) Although Blogger one of the top 10 most visited websites--leagues ahead of competitors, WordPress, Tumblr, and such--the Blogger interface is usually static on the platform the 11-year history. The major update came last year when Google unveiled the form template designer, Blogger, but since then the service has been quietly.

Meanwhile, competitive blogging platforms have matured with smooth interfaces and intuitive mobile apps. Tumblr has made remarkable progress in this direction--the Tumblr iOS app is streamlined in such a way as to provide for specific types of messages, such as photos, quotes, and links; and has a built-in content discovery system that Tumblr more of a social network than a blogging tool. It is precisely this kind of eye candy and ease-of-use that Google hopes to emulate with the upcoming updates.

Blogger's new editor new Blogger--which the company says the "whole 2011" will be updated--uses the Google Web Toolkit, a development toolkit for building and complex browser based applications to optimize. It also sports a modern publishing dashboard and a more customer-centric designer of the form template.

What is exciting for the social network is Google's new content discovery function. Depending on the blog you're currently reading, Blogger finds topic keywords and include them in a drop-down menu, allowing users to quickly between hop (or stumble upon,) If you will several websites posting similar material.

With 400 million active readers and approximately 5,000 novels worth of new words per day, blogger's update should reach many readers and writers.

What you are looking forward to most this update? I'm psyched for a decent, Google-built Blogger app. Web publishing on a smartphone is a pain.

 

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