Edit labels in Beta Blogger

Blogger in Beta added a new feature: labels management that allow adding or removing labels to all posts even the old ones; Blogger users who had switched to the beta version can now organise their old posts into categories.
Labels Management for Blogger in Beta in Blogger Buzz

Adsense integrated into Beta Blogger

AdSense ads is now integrated in the new Beta blogger template; Bloggers can now customize ads directly from "Add a Page Element" in new layouts-enabled template.

links:

Make Money with your Beta Blog

Blogtimize - Optimize the ads on your blog

Post photos from Picasa to Blogger

A new feature for Beta Blogger: Posting photos directly from Google’s Picasa photo organizer to the new version of Blogger in Beta.
Post to the Blogger beta from Picasa

Ping Google Blog Search

Google Blog Search launch today a Pinging Service; a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform Google of content changes.
Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in Google Blog Search can now ping Google directly: Google blog Search Ping Service
It also possible to use Google API to make this ping automatic:
About Google Blog Search Pinging Service API

AJAX Search API for Beta Blogger

Blogger template hacking-via-javascript:
Notable stuff:
- the sidebar's "Google Search" field searches multiple indexes (Web and BlogSearch), as well as individual sites (in this case the AJAX Search API blog, the Google blog and www.blogger.com) - you can customize all of these things
- the sidebar's "Video Search" field displays (and plays!) results inline
- links in the main blog section can dynamically link directly into the sidebar's embedded Map and Video boxes (try clicking the 'Sakana' and 'Jimi Hendrix' links)

AJAX Search API Hackery in blogger official blog
further details about the tweaks and integrations:
AJAX Search in TypePad and Blogger

happy photoblogging!

that what's end a bloggerblog post that announce they're fixing some image uploading problems, they’ve just released an additional change on the Blogger beta site to show thumbnails of photos after the upload
In my opinion the best way is to use firefox, it's possible with it to copy/past photos directly on the post without any upload
By the way, while reading the notes of the new bloggerblog "Known Issues for Blogger in Beta";
it seems that beta blogger have a lot of problems with Internet Explorer so they say: "The best workaround is to simply use Firefox".

New blog for Blogger in Beta

The Blogger blog announce today a new blog as response for users' interrogations about the beta blogger:
"We’re addressing these questions with today’s launch of Known Issues for Blogger in Beta, a new blog that will contain fresh information about the status of issues and bugs that affect you."
The post explain also the various other communication channels that exist between the users and the Blogger Team:
Support form
Blogger Status
Blogger Buzz the blog
Blogger Help Group

Edit template in Beta Blogger available

Editing template is now possible in the beta version blogger but the new template is different,
the blogger blog annonces that the new template language is completely different from the old one; and that more documentation about this will be available later.

New Blogger in Beta

Google has started today testing an enhanced version of its blog publishing service Blogger in Beta;

For now, Google is limiting the number of Blogger's members who can switch over to the new beta version of the service. Those who want to try the new features out right away can create a new account at http://beta.blogger.com/. It's also possible now to use google accounts login to have accces to the service.

Here is some of new interesting features and functions of the new release:
-Categorize posts with labels
-Control access to blogs: add authors so multiple people can post to blog, choose who can view blog just by adding their email address.

-Make layout changes : Blogger's Layout feature: edit and customize your Blogger template, edit and customize the colors, fonts, header and sidebar of your blog .

-More feed options

-New Dashboard

-Bunch of new blogger templates

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