Changes Coming For Blogger - Are You Ready?

Blogger, a very popular blog platform, will be changing the way that they allow blog files to be uploaded...for certain users.

Is Your Organization Ready For This Change?

Here is what the team at Blogger has to say:

"FTP [publishing] remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of this, critical infrastructure that our FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which would require that we completely rewrite the code that handles our FTP processing.

Three years ago we launched custom domains to give users the simplicity of Blogger, the scalability of Google hosting, and the flexibility of hosting your blog at your own URL. In evaluating the investment needed to continue supporting FTP, we have decided that we could not justify diverting further engineering resources away from building new features for all users.

For that reason, we are announcing that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible.

While we recognize that this decision will frustrate some users, we look forward to showing you the many great things on the way."

The business blogging team at BizHive has a solution for the changes that were recently announced by Blogger. If you find your company, or an organization that you know and care about, struggling with what to do next as a user of Blogger; reach out and contact us today.