Blogger

The web publishing system Blogger was created by Pyra Labs in 1999. Blogger enables anyone, regardless of technical know-how, to quickly set up and maintain their own blog.PC Magazine: Decoding Blogs (February 13, 2007) Blogger was acquired by Google in 2003. Since founding Blogger, the entrepreneur behind it, Evan Williams has gone onto starting such sites as Odeo and the popular microblogging service Twitter, which has gained international traction since its inception in 2006.http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/ Despite the rise of other blogging services such as WordPress and Tumblr, Blogger has remained a popular blogging service under Google's umbrella of products and services, and many people have called those who blog a "blogger" which has made the name even more so popular. According to Alexa, the site Blogger still remains in the top 100 websites on the Internet.http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogger.com#trafficstats Many bloggers do it for fun, whereas others have created a business out of blogging.http://techbasedmarketing.com/business-blogging/making-a-business-out-of-blogging/239/ Business today rely on blogs to promote various products, announcements, and more through their blogs.http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_18/b3931001_mz001.htm

1. Free
2. Privacy controls
3. Pre-made templates
4. Fonts and colors to customize templates
5. Editing of blog's HTML
6. Save to draft
7. Quickly post photos
8. Post from a cell phone
9. Commenting supported
10. Tags (labels) supported
11. Trackbacks and pings
12. Link lists (aka blogrolls)
13. Supports Google AdSense
14. Blog address can be on blogspot.com or a purchased domain name

• WordPress

• MySpace

• LiveJournal

• Facebook

• Drupal

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