Blogger

Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows people to create private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs in 1999 which was a small media institution but as this was the time in the internet boom it later was bought by Google in 2003 for $50 million dollars.

The other companies that are owned by Google:

• YouTube
• newscorp
• my space
• msn
• fox news

5 facts about the institution:

• ·         Blogger also started integration of Amazon Associates as a service to generate revenue.
• ·         Blogger offers multiple author support, making it possible to establish group blogs.
• ·         Blogger offers a template editing feature, which allows users to customize the Blogger template.
• ·         Google Docs has direct publishing integration to Blogger.
• ·         Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes directly to blogger

 

Blogger was a small company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999; this was in the midst of the dot com boom which is when many internet companies were investing money into internet businesses. Blogger started off in a small way and became bigger slowly but first ran out of money but luckily survived until in 2002 when the company had thousands of users and then Google purchased the company.

http://www.blogger.com/about