R.I.P. Blogger, lang lebe Blogger!

Seit gestern, 04. Mai 2007 gibt es den alten Blogger von Google (Pyra-Labs) nicht mehr! Auch der letzte, auf der alten Plattform verbliebene Blog, der Blogger Buzz ist nun auf die neue Umgebung migriert.

Das Team hat eine kurze Timeline mit den Highlights der letzten 8 Monate zusammengestellt:

14 August 2006: The new version of Blogger launches as a public beta
23 August 2006: Blogger’s 7th birthday
30 August 2006: Edit HTML added to beta’s Layouts
2 September 2006: Login box fiasco solved
5 September 2006: Beta Known Issues blog launched
21 September 2006: Mobile posting added
4 October 2006: Picasa support added
26 October 2006: Week of Old Blogger meltdowns
2 November 2006: Beta declared “feature complete” with FTP support
10 November 2006: All new accounts created on Blogger in beta
12 November 2006: New mobile accounts created on Blogger in beta
11 December 2006: Team blogs allowed to switch to Blogger in beta
19 December 2006: New Blogger taken out of beta
4 January 2007: BlogThis! added
24 January 2007: Percentage of users required to switch to new Blogger
15 February 2007: All users required to switch to new Blogger on login
21 February 2007: FTP publishing reliability improved
4 March 2007: Performance problems with especially busy blogs resolved
28 March 2007: Offline process to move blogs from old to new Blogger begins
16 April 2007: 1000th Blog of Note
24 April 2007: All blogs moved off old Blogger, save [this] one
26 April 2007: Blogger Buzz moves to new Blogger, turns off lights on its way out
27 April 2007: DNS change to point www.blogger.com to new Blogger
4 May 2007: Old Blogger physically dismantled

Jetzt bin ich gespannt, welche neuen Features uns das Team nun bringt, da die volle Aufmerksamkeit jetzt dem neuen System gewidmet werden kann.

via [Blogger Buzz]