Blogger Template Designer

Read about the Blogger Template Designer here"Blogger Template Designer Now Available To Everyone"

Highlights
How you look online is important, and everybody wants to look unique. With the Blogger Template Designer, you can create your own blog designs through:

• Beautiful new templates. We’ve designed 19 brand-new templates, with more on the way. You can quickly give your blog a great new style by selecting one of the new templates.[1]
• Separating design from layout. Designs are completely defined in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), meaning that any design can be applied to any blog layout, making templates more flexible and unique.
• Hundreds of free, professional background images. We've paired up withiStockphoto to offer you hundreds of gorgeous background images at no cost.
• A single control to change all your design's colors. With other platforms, users have to define every color in their blog separately, making changing the color theme of your blog a tedious task. The Blogger Template Designer lets you change all the colors in your blog at once, by changing the Main color theme.
• Pixel-perfect layout manipulation via smooth resizing. You can define your layout down to the pixel via sliders that update the blog's preview in real time.
• A real-time preview sits below the design control panel. Watch your blog update as you create your template design.
• Keeping it simple. Throughout the Template Designer we use hierarchy to hide complexity from you.
• Complete control. Under the advanced tab, you can override a design's CSS and enter your own CSS in the editor and see your blog's preview updated in real time.
• Cross-browser support. Blogger handles cross browser support for you, so you don’t have to. Want a design with rounded corners? We give it to you in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.

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"Reshare" in Google Buzz

SOURCE:-http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/reshare-in-google-buzz.html

The other day I posted this video to the version of Buzz we use inside of Google. A few people commented on it, 13 liked it, and 68 of my coworkers thought it was interesting enough that they wanted to share it with their own followers. Collectively, thousands of people watched it, many of whom were many degrees away from me.

For the last couple weeks we've been testing reshare — and today we’re excited to roll it out to everyone. If you don't see the "Reshare" link quite yet, hang tight. It should be on for everyone by the end of the day.

How reshare works

When you find an interesting buzz post you want to reshare, instead of copying and pasting it (and maybe attributing the original poster with an @reply along the way), you can now reshare posts with two clicks.

First, click “Reshare”:


Then type up anything you want to add and click “Post”:


Your post will include a link to the original post:


Note that this only works for public posts; private posts won't have the reshare link since the original poster intended to limit the audience of their post.

A little more background

Reshare has been one of our top user requests, so we hope we've made a number of you happy. We realize that just as many will likely wonder why we decided to implement it the way we did. So, here's a bit more background for those who are curious:

• First, back to those two clicks: one click vs. two click reshare was a hard choice (I know, it doesn't sound so hard, but we spent a lot of time on this!). Ultimately, we chose to go with two clicks because we want people to be able to reshare publicly or privately and also encourage resharers to add their own new content to the post.
• If you follow a bunch of people who all reshare the same thing, the last thing you want is for that same post to appear over and over again. When this happens, similar posts get collapsed, so you should only see each thing once.
• You'll notice that resharing creates a new post, effectively forking the conversation. To fork or not fork was a decision we debated for a while. Ultimately, we think forked conversations help create more varied, intimate discussions around a single item. We realize people may want a non-forking version too, so we're thinking about how to do that as well.
• When there is a chain of reshares, the names of all of the people who publicly reshare the post appear on the original item, even if they're not directly connected to the original author. If you share something that ends up getting passed around by lots of other people, it's pretty cool to see that.
• If you "like" a reshare, you don't automatically also "like" the original post. Imagine what would happen if I reshare a very positive movie review and write "What a joke! This movie was terrible!" Someone who likes my post probably doesn't want their "like" showing on the original post praising the film, too.

Overall, we’ve made a lot of progress since my original ASCII mockups...


...and after a lot of debate, we even settled on what to call it...


...but reshare is still very much a work in progress. We wanted to launch and iterate so be sure to let us know what you think in the forum or on Buzz.

Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail with an Onslaught of New Features

Microsoft has announced a huge slew of upgrades to Hotmail to make it more competitive with Gmail, and we have to admit the list is impressive.

With 343 million users, Hotmail is still the top e-mail service provider. Gmail is much smaller, with approximately 150 million users as of September 2009.

Gmail has been adding features relentlessly in the past couple of years, however, and the sleek integration with otherGoogle services has made it the fastest growing webmail. And just like many other Google services, it also happens to generate the most buzz in the media.

Among the new Hotmail features are Hotmail Highlights, which gives you a quick overview of what’s new in your inbox organized by source, such as e-mail contacts or social contacts from Facebook or Twitter. This reminds me of the way Windows 7 “simplifies” the control panel and many other Windows features. Still, this new view is definitely clean and simple, and I’m sure many users will get used to it quickly.

The Sweep function is touted as a simpler alternative to e-mail filtering, enabling you to quickly organize the e-mails that aren’t exactly spam, but that you don’t want at the top of your inbox. It’s not groundbreaking, but it’s simpler than Gmail’s filtering options.

The new Hotmail is also integrated with Office Web Apps, meaning that you can edit documents directly from your inbox. You can also store the documents and photos you send on Microsoft SkyDrive, which means you don’t have to worry about size constraints because your documents reside in the cloud.

Microsoft also took document integration a step further when it comes to consuming content. If you receive a video from Hulu or YouTube, you can view it right there in the inbox. If you receive attached photos, you can see them in the form of a nifty slideshow, provided you have Silverlight installed.

Finally, Microsoft mentions some other features it hasn’t discussed in detail, including: enhanced account protection, full-session SSL, multiple e-mail accounts, subfolders, contact management and ever-growing storage. All in all, you could say it’s a catchup effort, but we’ll give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and call it a complete overhaul. It’ll be hard to steal users away from Gmail — which still has dozens of minor features that Hotmail doesn’t (just check the Labs) — but Hotmail will most likely be a worthy competitor after the new version is launched this summer.

Source: mashable.com website.