Try out new Blogger features like video upload

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Try out new Blogger features like video upload

by Brad Linder Jun 14th 2007

Google has announced two major updates to its Blogger platform today:

You can upload videos to embed in blog posts from within the Blogger dashboard.
There'll be a lot more updates coming soon.

Basically, Google's set up something called Blogger in Draft. If you sign up, your Blogger dashboard basically looks identical to the regular interface, but you'll get a few new features before they're release to the public.

First up is video uploads. Click the little video icon next to the image icon when you're editing a post, and you'll be able to upload a video that will be embedded right in your blog entry. Under the hood, the video's being uploaded to Google Video and an embed code is being written to your blog post. Similarly when you upload an image, it's hosted on Picasa Web Albums. But you can upload all the photos and videos you want without ever dealing with Google Video or Picasa.

If video uploads aren't enough to tempt you to sign up for Blogger in Draft, you can subscribe to the new Blogger in Draft blog to keep an eye on future updates.
[via Google Blogoscoped]

Tags: blogger, video upload, VideoUpload

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jenny said 8:38AM on 6-15-2007

This is a cool feature. Google is really working hard to promote youtube. I also noticed video results in regular search queries.

Jenny
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