What’s up with Blogger? No innovation. Too many splogs. Google botched this acquisition. Google buying Blogger was the best thing to ever happen to Six Apart.
Either innovate or take this old friend out back and put it out of its misery.
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February 16, 2006 at 2:19 am
I think Google just wants Blogger for Adsense real estate. Thus their “sign up for Blogger and earn money” ads.
February 16, 2006 at 4:23 am
Kevin,
Now – that’s just now fair. They’ve added a link to the Google store from the home page which lets you buy t-shirts.
I feel sorry for MeasureMap – just when I was getting to like them – my free BlogBeat account has expired as well…
February 16, 2006 at 6:03 pm
I’m with you Kevin … Blogger has barely changed in two years … probably longer. No categories … terrible templating.
I wrote about this on a couple of my blogs:
http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/16/1766872.html
http://trishussey.wordpress.com/2006/02/16/ditch-blogger-for-wordpresscom/
Tris
February 16, 2006 at 7:32 pm
It shows Google’s primary weakness as a company– managing user experience that’s NOT from the top down.
Search, Contextual ads, Gmail. That’s their hit parade, because it’s top down (our geniuses will make it work for you) rather then bottom up.
If Google has anything to worry about right now besides the massive softening of the ppc ad model, it’s losing its edge when it comes to user-generated content and applications.
February 18, 2006 at 3:03 pm
While Blogger hasn’t changed much in the last couple years, I’m not sure that’s such a bad thing. I’d guess that 95% of the blogs out there (i.e., created by all the people who aren’t in the “blogosphere” business) are created by people who do fine with Blogger’s features.
I’m sort-of in the blogosphere business, and I have blogs powered by blojsom, WordPress, and Blogger–but I tend to recommend Blogger to people who don’t need their blogs to be elaborately customized or intranet hosted.
I wouldn’t underestimate the power of “free and works pretty good” as a major selling point.