Yesterday Blogger Beta has been announced in the Blogger Buzz. Blogger Beta brings new improvements over the classic blogger that we used to blog with. Among the new features are :
- Categories!
- Blogger account is now merged with your Google account
- Fine-grained author control
- Private blog
- New templates
- comment feed
- updated dashboard
- Instant publishing, no need to republish your blog
Perhaps the most long awaited feature is the Categories which makes it easier to organise your blog with it and trackbacks. But I guess considering the amount of spam that you might get I think trackback is not worth the feature for blogger.com.
Blogger Beta migration is only limited for a few accounts for now, and you can only migrate your blog to the new Blogger system??if you see the Upgrade icon in your blogger dashboard.
At the time of this writing, your blog can’t be migrated if you host it at a different host other than blogger.com and/or your blog has many contributors/authors.
You can register an account with Blogger Beta with your Google account to test drive the system first. Howeve, as admitted in Blogger website, Blogger Beta still has few unsquished bugs, so use it at your own risk.
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