Blogger Play : You can watch the blogs go by

Posted by Jerry Ong |

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Sep 16

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Blogger Play is a new & neat little toy Google cooked up to show you photos and blog posts as you’ve never seen them before. In other word, its a photo slide show of everyone’s photo posted on Blogger!

The Story Behind Blogger Play

Shortly after Blogger launched photo uploading two years ago, one of Google engineers whipped up a web page that would show the pictures that were being uploaded in real time. The result was fun, often beautiful, but above all, compelling.

Over the years they’ve kept this photo scroller as part of the Blogger offices, on a monitor or projector, as an interesting (distracting?) slideshow, and a reminder of the diversity and vivaciousness of Blogger blogs. The fame of the scroller spread within Google, until one day they were asked, “so, when are you launching this?”

“Um…,” they replied. But they knew a good idea when we heard one. Blogger got their UI people to come up with buttons and fadey effects and we got our engineers to make the whole thing fast and robust. A bit of work later, and now Blogger can share it with all of you:

http://play.blogger.com/

How Blogger Play work?

Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it. Visit Blogger Play FAQ with more information.