On the Blogger home page, I noticed there’s a statement that stated ‘We’re out of beta and ready to go’. Blogger has officially released a new version this month.

Prior to this blog, I’ve been blogging with Blogger.com for a long time before moved to my own domain. In fact, it is interesting to know that Blogger are now out of beta version and also improved its features. I remember when I blogging with Blogger.com, I encountered several difficulties in publishing my posts, especially that time I was using dial-up through telephone line, as you can well imagine. I know now Blogger has improved this publishing control with just one-click and many other features such as, label (I more prefer to call it tag), drag and drop of the elements, and etc.

However, one thing I dislike about this new Blogger, i.e. it’s difficult to export your blog to some other blogging softwares. I’m thinking maybe this is a new strategy for Blogger to nurture the users’ technological lock-in. In addition, it’s nearly three years now when Google bought Pyra Labs in early 2003 and thus, acquired Blogger. I tend to believe this is the first time Google has upgraded this Blogger software, my question is why does it take Google so long to upgrade Blogger? With Google now a domain name reseller, I wonder are they going to let the users buy a domain name and hence allow domain mapping at Blogger?