New Features Experienceable via Blogger in Draft Blogger released a variety of new things to its audience. There is a new Blogger in Draft, which makes new features experienceable prior to any official launch on Blogger.com, a new blog, Blogger in Draft, which announces new features and makes them discussable and of course there is a first feature in Draft introducing Video Upload.

After a click onto the new Video Upload icon an AJAX based screen appears and displays an interface to upload a video to Google Video in one of the accepted formats AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media, 100 MB maximum size.

The procedure reduces the amount of friction to post a video to Blogger and transforms the accepted formats into Flash allowing users to easily embed videos into their own blog using Adobe System's ubiquitous Flash Player and demonstrates that simplicity is another time a competitive advantage, people require already mp3 upload...

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  Looking Forward to Read from Goethe and Schiller Online On their journey towards digitization the Bavarian State Library and participating publishers cooperate with Google now to digitize copyright-(free) books and make them available through Google book search.

Besides famous German literature the library also comprehends books in Italian, French, Spanish, Latin and English language. I'm really excited about never before seen rarities.

The digitization will enrich Google's search index, offer a rich online experience for interested book lovers and represent a step forward in an open web-world respecting copyrighted books.

Of course there is also a commercial and non-commercial aspect resulting in sharing advertising revenue through a partner program established between Google and participating publishers. Publishers decide which books to exclude. In case of a copyrighted book just title author and a 'snippet' will be shown.

Interested buyers can click through and buy the book at the participating publisher. I remember something similar at another place another time...
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  Seamless Migration to Blogger.Beta I managed to seamlessly migrate to the new Blogger Beta version without any issues, the only thing to do was to update the archive url. Tagging and the integration of Blogger into Google Accounts make Blogger as an easy to use publishing tool a lot more coveted for me now, it's even possible now to publish directly to Blogger from Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

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Web navigation systems have conceptually shifted from traditional forms of classification using fixed taxonomies to distributed classification schemes using flexible taxonomies (folksonomies), electronic publishing has become more and more individual and shows that the Internet is shifting to a medium that is genuinely more and more peer-to-peer structured with a decentralized authority.

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