Google continues to integrate its social networking site Google+ with the other services that it offers. Today, Google announced the Google+ integration for Blogger, enabling users to share their thoughts with their friends on Google+ in few easy steps.

Google recently started redirecting Blogspot.com blogs to Blogspot.in and other country specific domains. The reason being that Google wants to give more freedom of expression to users while also being able to adhere to removal requests from different governments.

Google is redirecting blogspot blogs to country specific domains. Blogspot.com blogs is redirecting to blogspot.in. Learn about the Blogger redirection and SEO implications for blogspot blogs.

A list of popular Google products and alternatives to each one. Also, a list of Google products which do not have a good replacement today.

Google is dropping the Blogger and Picasa brands from its service, but keeping the functionality. This is part of the move to a post-plus Google.

After 20 hours of suspended services and outage, Blogger.com is finally back online. Folks at Blogger have toiled real hard to get Blogger live in action. According to the Blogger team, the cause of this because of some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior.

My journey with related posts widgets has been very diverse. I first started out with an excellent native WordPress related posts plugin called YARRP. However, I had to get rid of it because of the massive database overhead it had and had to go with LinkWithin, which I quickly ditched for Outbrain.

The good news for Blogger users is that Google has decided to revamp Blogger’s UI and add new features e.g content discovery and an advanced Post editor amongst others. The upcoming changes at Blogger.com is not visible as of now, Google is showing a sneak peak of it’s new user interface at SFXW and plans to roll out these features in the coming months.

A Royal Pingdom uptime test for Blooger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous and TypePad found that Blogger has 100% uptime whereas Tumblr had 47.5 hours downtime in past two months.

LinkWithin Alternative and YARPP Alternative, Outbrain provides a realted posts widget and recommendation widget for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Drupal and more.

WordPress has a feature to add pages to blogs, the pages are basically static HTML content which does not need to change very often and serves certain purpose for the site. For example, we have an About page, a Contact us and an Advertise Page. WordPress has always had this feature, however, today the Blogger platform has introduced Pages for Blogspot blogs too.