blo.gs news

1240272000

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Blo.gs has been transferred from Yahoo to Automattic. We look forward to beefing up and refreshing the service. More news to follow.

1118763733

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:42:13 +0000

blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo!. Be sure to read Jim Winstead's post about the news and if you are a cloud listener note that we've changed the cloud port and we now need to know your IP address. Also, yahoo! is keeping the blo.gs privacy policy.

1118083915

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:51:55 +0000

as we gear up to move the service to its new home, wed like to get in touch with the people making use of the cloud interface so if thats you, please drop us a line with your contact information here

1116082517

Sat, 14 May 2005 14:55:17 +0000

i am in the final stages of completing a sale of blo.gs to a new owner, and expect to hand over the site, along with the user data, sometime on or after june 13, 2005. so as spelled out in the blo.gs privacy policy, this is your opportunity to have your account deleted before this transfer happens. you can delete your account by going to http://blo.gs/quit.php, or by sending an email to delete@blo.gs. i'm sorry i can't yet say who it is that will be acquiring blo.gs, but i can pass on the assurance that there will be no change in the privacy policy when they acquire the service and registered users will be given the opportunity to consent to any future change. they plan to continue providing the same features that exist now, and will be working on making blo.gs even better. the new owners will be in touch shortly after they've taken over the service next month.

1114420369

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:12:49 +0000

our source of updates from blogger appears to have gone offline, so new updates of blogger-published weblogs (particularly those on blogspot.com) are unlikely to be noticed until this is fixed.

1111314611

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:30:11 +0000

you can now easily delete your account, which will completely remove the information about your account and your favorites from our system.

1109683327

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:22:07 +0000

blo.gs is for sale, although plans are sketchy at this point. there’s no ebay auction or anything fancy like that. as the privacy policy says, registered users of the site will have the opportunity to opt out of the transfer to new ownership. we’ll have more details when (if) that event transpires.

1105990213

Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:30:13 +0000

thanks to the team at pubsub.com, we are now receiving updates about when even more weblogs have been updated, included many livejournal users. we’re now processing somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 updates per second.

1101569231

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:27:11 +0000

(warning: this is not something most blo.gs users need to worry about.) at the end of this year, we will stop publishing the list of most recently updated blogs via changes.xml files and the previous HTTP-based cloud service. in their place, we have introduced a new service that combines the best qualities of those two services, and provides a streaming list of updated blogs.

1098898131

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:28:51 +0000

you can now buy text ads that appear on blo.gs through adbrite. feel free to contact us to negotiate different rates. the ads appear on all non-popup pages. (note: advertising is still available, but we may run amazon affiliate links and google adsense ads during periods when no ads have been directly purchased.)

1093006115

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:48:35 +0000

during the recent server travails, support for xfn 1.1 was added. this is a fairly minor update to how you can tag weblogs as belonging to friends, family members, and other related people. you can change the settings on the info page for any weblog in your favorites list.

1092527476

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:51:16 +0000

as you may have noticed, blo.gs was down for maintenance most of today. things should now be humming along, and hopefully enough measures have been put in place to deal with the recent spike in robot-related load. we’ll be keeping a close eye on things, and some additional downtime tomorrow would not be entirely unexpected.

1092327926

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:25:26 +0000

sorry for the current service disruptions. we appear to be under attack by killer robots. we’re working to put them in their place.

1087311964

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:06:04 +0000

just a reminder, since it appears that several thousand blogs will have to find new homes soon: if your blog has moved, just let us know the old and new locations and we can merge the entries so that people who have marked your blog as a favorite at its old location will find it at the new location.

1085594623

Wed, 26 May 2004 18:03:43 +0000

the option to get the list of new blogs in email updates has been removed completely, due to the frequent problems with the large emails this caused.