Wednesday, November 25, 2009
This is a new post to Blogger to test my picture paste utility. Here's a picture I've pasted, well OK I dragged it in
which seems to work fine.
which seems to work fine.This is left aligned picture. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
OK so blogger is not as good as Wordpress which can do wrap alignment. Blogger can only do simple left, center and right alinment.
Oh dear that pasted text from WordPress went very,very wrong.
OK so blogger is not as good as Wordpress which can do wrap alignment. Blogger can only do simple left, center and right alinment.
Oh dear that pasted text from WordPress went very,very wrong.
Monday, August 04, 2003
Isn't Google abusing their position of power, in the same way Microsoft has been accused, by adding the BlogThis button to the Google toolbar.
If I was another blogging software company I would be outraged by this, because it would be pretty obvious that I'm just about to be put out of business by Google. No one can compete against the might of Google. Their complete domination of one market is being used to give them an unfair advantage in another.
It's all very well to say 'well anyone can compete with us, we're not forcing users to use Google' but that's not the point. Yes, in the Search Engine market, people are free to compete and try and displace the established players (as Google did themselves), but here Google can leverage their well deserved number one market position to give away for free (ring any bells...Microsoft's tactics with IE) their blogging solution. How can any other legitimate blogging company compete with that?
Blogging companies on a level playing field, even giving their software away for free if they so wish, competing against each other, is one thing. That's fair game. Microsoft giving away a blogging solution for free (with free hosting) would be regarded as unacceptable by most people, and the authorities even, I would imagine. Isn't Google doing the same thing? (It dominates one market in the same way MS dominates others).
Worse, if you look at the first thing you see when you click the BlogThis button, it says this:
"New to Blogging?
Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to your own web site instantly. The BlogThis! button on the Google Toolbar makes it even easier -- One click and you can quickly share your thoughts with the world."
So it's not just Blogging companies that should feel threatened by Google, but any company that offers web site publishing. "Publish you own website instantly" is the line than very many web authoring and web hosting companies use. That's a far broader range of companies than just blogging software developers.
Perhaps the answer, or a partial answer, is that Google play a bit more fair and allow users to easily make the BlogThis button go to alternative Blogging solutions. At least that would be seen to be more fair, even if most users don't take the option. Also perhaps they need clarify that wording so as not to imply it's a general website publishing solution.
Google would then have some, partial, answer to all those (non search engine) companies that feel Google in about to take away their livelihood.
If I was another blogging software company I would be outraged by this, because it would be pretty obvious that I'm just about to be put out of business by Google. No one can compete against the might of Google. Their complete domination of one market is being used to give them an unfair advantage in another.
It's all very well to say 'well anyone can compete with us, we're not forcing users to use Google' but that's not the point. Yes, in the Search Engine market, people are free to compete and try and displace the established players (as Google did themselves), but here Google can leverage their well deserved number one market position to give away for free (ring any bells...Microsoft's tactics with IE) their blogging solution. How can any other legitimate blogging company compete with that?
Blogging companies on a level playing field, even giving their software away for free if they so wish, competing against each other, is one thing. That's fair game. Microsoft giving away a blogging solution for free (with free hosting) would be regarded as unacceptable by most people, and the authorities even, I would imagine. Isn't Google doing the same thing? (It dominates one market in the same way MS dominates others).
Worse, if you look at the first thing you see when you click the BlogThis button, it says this:
"New to Blogging?
Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to your own web site instantly. The BlogThis! button on the Google Toolbar makes it even easier -- One click and you can quickly share your thoughts with the world."
So it's not just Blogging companies that should feel threatened by Google, but any company that offers web site publishing. "Publish you own website instantly" is the line than very many web authoring and web hosting companies use. That's a far broader range of companies than just blogging software developers.
Perhaps the answer, or a partial answer, is that Google play a bit more fair and allow users to easily make the BlogThis button go to alternative Blogging solutions. At least that would be seen to be more fair, even if most users don't take the option. Also perhaps they need clarify that wording so as not to imply it's a general website publishing solution.
Google would then have some, partial, answer to all those (non search engine) companies that feel Google in about to take away their livelihood.
