We’re making it easy to use your existing Gmail contacts in Blogger. We’ve added a “Choose from contacts” link below some of your blog’s settings fields, such as Comment > Comment Notification Email and Email > BlogSend Address. Click the link to bring up a window with your Gmail contacts list.Currently we don’t have the picker built in to the Permissions settings, but we’re working on it.
Finding your contacts ok? Any problems? Let us know in the comments.
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Looks fairly interesting. I think this would be a better feature for group blogs, although solo blog authors may yawn at this feature.
What I would REALLY love to see is email subscriptions to comments without using a blogger login (so you can use it with OpenID or Anonymous posts).
Just my two cents. ;-)
I do not want to sound pessimistic, but I fail to see the point -- it just doesn't seem useful at all.
It's neat but it doesn't add much to the actual blog functionality, does it? The reaction system is still buggy, by the way. I'm able to vote multiple times. Why not use radio buttons instead of check marks?
Are there any plans to add categories to blogger? It's nice to label/tag entries but labels limit my ambitions. Wordpress has tags AND categories. Even livejournal has categories, they call it memories but it's the same thing. Limiting us to labels means that once your post falls off the front page it's a crapshoot for visitors to find it again intuitively.
Look, categories AND tags all on the same page!
With categories you can actually divide your content into proper sections. First time visitors can easily find what they're looking for instead of having a big stupid unintuitive tag cloud staring back at them.
Look, I'm willing to spend money on this to get implemented. Just put a tip jar on the side of the blog. I'm not kidding.
And if you do finally at the very least consider the prospect of categories, DON'T FORGET TO ALLOW THE NESTING! OF CATEGORIES
Cool
hmmm interested, but its not optimal, i sure more like if the comments form changging more cool. more easy reply a comment from our guest :D
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Cool, i like blogger draft, but this feature wasn't much needed....
It makes it easy to incorporate contacts from gmail,,looks nice
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@ Alain-Christian: Categories and labels are pretty much the same thing.
And before you attempt to break out a blog dictionary explaining the difference, realize that I can assign multiple categories to the same post, just like labels.
In the end its just semantics.
And yes, I have a WordPress blog, but I am sticking with blogger as they allow you to upload video directly to your blog (without limit), plus I can edit 100% of the page without paying a dime. :-)
good very nice
@ darnellclayton.com
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong.
The fact that you think they're the same tells me you're either ignorant or never used them effectively. When I call somebody ignorant it's not to insult them, it's to point out a lack of knowledge. Here is the example from my livejournal: Click here.
See that? It's a list of all the episode summaries I've posted ARRANGED BY SPECIFIC SHOW. If you click on a show you'll find episode summaries NESTED below the show you clicked on.
I CANNOT DO THAT WITH TAGS/LABELS.
Tags cannot be neatly nested like that. Furthermore, go to my main livejournal page and look at the mess of tags. If I was still active on that blog that mess would have been cleaned out by now BUT IT DOES ILLUSTRATE MY POINT. If I was like you and thought tags and categories were interchangeable every show would have a tag for it and a user would have to page-down twice before they saw any actual content.
I agree with you on one thing, the wordpress "free" hosting service is a joke. It's insulting what they ask people to pay out for. They have balls.
it is very interesting!
Looks interesting, i will definately give it a try !!!!
not very attractive! i would rather like to have comment under posts option improved!
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That's nice..
I like it. =D
I appreciate the 'sand box' approach in anything, same as research/development in a laboratory.
Whatever is good can always be improved upon. That said 'increasing traffic' to my site remains my greatest concern... how can you help us more eaily to have Digg, Facebook,etc. at the bottom of our blogs, without our having to write those in directly? I always appreciate great upgrades and will definintely check draft.blogger when I do my next blog.
WELL... it's way much better than normal blogger... except the fact that greasemonkey cannot be used... :P
Nice One
please allow veriuse email account in comments sned.
It works well, thanks a lot...
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Nice!!
TANTO ROLLO, Y NO SOIS CAPACES DE PONER UN TRADUCTOR PARA PODER LEER LO QUE DECIS.
NO CREO QUE OS CUESTE TANTO
I believe in innovation in whatever form it comes. By that I mean, anything good can be better and better best. So I am pleased to help in shaping whatever you are trying to do.. given as you improve/upgrade... I do also, along with rest at Blogger.
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i love it..
any news/schedule for Google Friend Connect being integrated into Blogger in some way?
g-mail? Why? I don't have g-mail, don't want it, not going to get it. --e-mail I already have: perfectly FINE and NO advertising. Way NOT going to allow Google to encroach any further.
I'm already steamed at Google policies, e.g., bias against people who don't want privacy invaded --refusing to accept Post Office Box address for AdSense account, so I couldn't care any less what YOU do/want to know about. (--YES, when I was re-required to enter stupid PIN, but couldn't: I requested it be sent --THREE times, YES --I verified I wrote the correct address for mailing it to me. Didn't do ANY good, you failed to send --because of your bigotry. Say Google: have you even heard the word "homeless"? --Millions are now, you keeping all their money also? Nice trick. --You people LOVING this economy?)
With LOTS of free e-mail providers, there ISN'T a GOOD reason --from user's side, to get a "g-mail account." --There's ONLY "good" reasons from Google's side, a corporation that looks more and more like the proverbial
"company store."
Now: Google Map tagging? What's next? --FORCING Bloggers to get g-mail --or blogspot won't function?
Watch out Google, your manipulation is starting to make you look ugly, very ugly.
@ Poppy
If you don't like Google then why are you here? I'm a big fan of Google products myself and I don't see the big deal with them having my information. PayPal and eBay are more evil than Google can ever aspire to be.
thanks so
thanks
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