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Apr 03 2007
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If you’re a frequent reader of FinanceTwitter, you might noticed there wasn’t any new post being updated yesterday. Reason being I was having problem login into Google Inc.’s (Nasdaq: GOOG, stock) Blogger since then. The normal URL link which I used to login didn’t seems to work. It happened before when Google’s Blogger team tried to force bloggers to migrate to their Beta. As the name suggested, you won’t want to cry endlessly later on if you migrated to the “Beta” platform only to find out it was full of bugs and inconsistencies, would you? Furthermore, blogging’s importance has gained importance that it’s almost next to your own life and that piece of mobile of yours. But I found another link which allowed me to login as “old” or “classic” blogger. Google blogger has then “graduated” from the Beta and I guess this is the final assault to force the remaining bloggers to migrate
Above is how it looks like when an old blogger tried to login. You are not allowed to login no matter how many days you tried. You just have to migrate to the new paltform. Of course one of the reasons why I was so stubborn was due to the fact that there were simply too many nightmares experienced by other bloggers who migrated to the new platform. You can googled it to find out the numerous stories behind it.

Once I migrated minutes ago, I noticed some new features (or new problems?) – amongst them the Label where you can assign labels for your posts, such as stocks, investing, option trading etc. I need to check the “I accept the Terms of Service” (refer to diagram above) everytime I need to load an image though. Also I noticed something very interesting – there’s option whereby you can set the posting date and time (I haven’t tried it though). So if you know that you’ll be away on 1-week holiday to Maldives (check for potential tsunami strike please) and you do not wish to treat your loyal readers with a plate of spider-webs, then you can prepare some topics in advance and schedule it to be posted according to the date and time desired. It will makes your blog as if it’s updated on daily basis.

Another goodies is you can add Newsreel and Video Bar widgets with your new Blogger template. Also, you’ll noticed the URL for new Blogger platform starts with www2.blogger.com while the ld one remains with www.blogger.com (noticed the difference?). Cool, but I really hope Google has solved all the problems faced during the beta period and their support team is more proactive this time whenever publisher like us seek their assistance.

# TIP: If you’ve migrated to the new Google Blogger, you need to remember that you login with your Google Account which is equivalent to your GMail account. You need to type in full, for example, stocktube@gmail.com and not the previous stocktube as your login username.



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