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Jason Dunn
05-10-2004, 10:32 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.hello.com/how_bloggerbot_works.php' target='_blank'>http://www.hello.com/how_bloggerbot_works.php</a><br /><br /></div>"Now you can use Hello to publish pictures to any Blogger blog. Meet BloggerBot. Just use Hello to send your pictures to BloggerBot. BloggerBot will automatically resize your JPG pictures, add your captions, and publish your pictures to the Web. You don't have to resize pictures by hand, transfer files, format HTML posts, or even find a place to host your images - Hello does all the work for you. And, it's totally free."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/hello_plus_blogger.jpg" /> <br /><br />I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but does it ever sound cool! Blogger just announced a whole whack of new features, and they have a cool new re-design, and now this? Excellent! I think it's time indeed for me to launch my personal Blog that I keep talking about doing. ;-) I have a lot of admiration for the folks at Picasa - they keep coming up with seriously cool stuff!

Perry Reed
05-10-2004, 11:19 PM
Nice! As anyone with a blog can tell you (and I run two myself) the most difficult thing about putting up content is images. It's a completely manual process outside of the blogging process itself. I'm glad to see someone finally addressing it and hope that others will create similar solutions that work with other blogging tools (like LiveJournal or MovableType).

Kevin & Beth Remhof
05-11-2004, 02:24 AM
Rock on! This is really cool. I just tried out Hello a few weeks ago and really liked it. I've used it to show my Mom pictures of the grandkids. Very fun. I'm currently using Gallery (http://gallery.sourceforge.net/) to upload photos to our blog. The Hello BloggerBot could be another nice way to handle photos.

One slight problem though. BloggerBot doesn't support FTP blogs yet. So, I'll have to wait a bit... Still, this looks really cool. I'm glad to see that Picasa is branching out.

Jason Dunn
05-11-2004, 03:31 PM
One slight problem though. BloggerBot doesn't support FTP blogs yet. So, I'll have to wait a bit... Still, this looks really cool. I'm glad to see that Picasa is branching out.

Gah! You mean it's just for BlogSpot blogs? :? Darn. I hope they address that soon...

Mr. MacinTiger
05-12-2004, 01:11 PM
The Picasa guys have produced some solid stuff, and Hello looks like no exception to that. I want to see some Blogs that have been produced by it!

Tangentally, on the Mac side of things iBlog and Blogstudio are two programs that are similar to Hello and integrate with iPhoto, iMovie, and iTunes to make it easy to post all kinds of multimedia content to your blog. iBlog is a little ahead of Blogstudio in development at this point, IMO, but the latter is catching up fast.

Kevin & Beth Remhof
05-13-2004, 03:38 AM
One slight problem though. BloggerBot doesn't support FTP blogs yet. So, I'll have to wait a bit... Still, this looks really cool. I'm glad to see that Picasa is branching out.

Gah! You mean it's just for BlogSpot blogs? :? Darn. I hope they address that soon...

Not anymore. The BloggerBot now works with BlogSpot and FTP blogs. The Picasa team has really been on top of this. I was just playing with this new Hello integration and it is sweet! Really easy to use and a lot of fun. All you have to do is pick a picture from Picasa (or File Explorer) and send it to Hello. Type in a caption and BloggerBot takes over.

updatexp.com
05-24-2004, 08:53 PM
The folks at Picasa just keep getting better at this stuff!

Marc Liron MVP