From day to day basis, and the exponential growth of blogging platform on the internet, users were given several types of choices to start their blogging experience. To date, I’ll list out WordPress.com / WordPress.org, Blogger, Live Journal, Movable Type and TypePad are the famous platform that will be chosen by the new bloggers.
However, some of them have their own uniqueness and speciality, not to mention compatibility with other blogging application. Moreover, bloggers sometime need or want changes, so they usually start to host their own blogging site, our should I say their own domain name. Thus, to serve the right of the users, the services that they subscribe for the first place gave them the tools for downloading the archives.
But, beyond that, we forget that users might change to different platform, such as from Blogger –> WordPress, or vise versa. Thus, to ease this issue, Google announce their Blog Converter 1.0. This converter enable users to convert their data / downloaded archive to be compatible with any platform that they are about to use.
Link: Google Blog Converter 1.0 (Homepage)
Link: Blogger to WordPress (Google App Engine)
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I applaud Google’s addition of such services for Blogger – it tells us a lot about the homogenizing and converging of different blogging platforms as users migrate from one blogging platform to another. In the past, I only know that WordPress has the mechanism to help import files from other blogging platforms, while Blogger only allowed users to export their files instead of optimizing their entries for other blogging platforms.
It’s a great thing
wooots!
I personally think Google wants to ease their traffic. Over the course of 10 years in business, Google has 400,000 servers. Can you imagine if all server were placed under one roof? Exactly, hot and dangerous!
WordPress has their own importing tools. So does Joomla, Movable Type.. why create a blog converter tool?
As we all know, Google wants to be the EVERYTHING. They took over Youtube, FeedBurner and much more, just to ease their traffic, which going to boost their ads hits and also get a Hall Of Fame for themselves. Hehe. Maybe, that is their business plan. Sounds great to me.
Anyway, NH, you’re my 1000′s commenter. Congratulation.
Hahaha.
Perhaps they wanted to show the world that they can be as flexible as Blogger?
Or using reverse psychology, since it will give people an impression that they can switch to any other blogging platform at ease, it gives them more reason to use Blogger to ‘try it out’ first – and get stuck with Blogger if they’re too lazy to move xD
LOL…tamak gila google ni…
Hehehe. Itu lah hakikat business mereka.
i wonder who have the eagerness to switch from wordpress to blogspot? haha
Hmm. Betul tu. Ada yang sanggup, mungkin yang malas nak bayar dah, or saje nak gune CSS capability yg WP.com xde. Huhu. Tp, aku vote WP! Yeah!