Jason Shellen - Scoble visits Google? Blogger for Microsoft Word

Posted By: scobleizer | Sep 7th, 2005 @ 11:05 PM | 21,565 Views | 17 Comments

Microsoft goes to Google? Yeah, Jason Shellen, of Google's Blogger team, invited us over to meet the Google Blogger team where they showed off a new feature that lets you edit your blogs from Microsoft Word: Blogger for Word. We snuck past the security guard and talked our way past the PR department. This video is one of the first that we've done at a Microsoft competitor, but it's pretty significant that you can now use Microsoft Word to create Blogger posts now.
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#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 12:35 AM
Cybermagellan
Cybermagellan
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WOW!!! Cold shoulder like anything....and I'm at 1:56 into the video.
#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 12:40 AM
scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Blogger for Word only does text. No images. No audio/video.

#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 12:56 AM
scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
Well, I've known Jason for a long time and that's his personality, in reality they treated me very well. I should have videoed when they showed me Google's Master Plan. That was a lot of fun. Oh, and the food in the cafeteria is great, should have showed that too.
#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 2:12 AM
UlsterFry
UlsterFry
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Why didn't you take Ballmer along with you? Wink
#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 3:09 AM
wacko
wacko
to be honest I am suprised this has not been done already. I mean it only seemed logical that word have someway to interact with a blog.
#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 3:33 AM
blindlizard
blindlizard
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scobleizer wrote:

Blogger for Word only does text. No images. No audio/video.

What a usless app then.  All you get out of it is spell checking (and basic formatting I guess).  It doesn't seem like it would have been much work to upload video/audio/images.  They should open source it, that might be cool, at least get around the myriad of short comings.

Am I the only one that finds google's applications to be lame?  They all seem thrown together with little thought (and absolutly no interaction).
#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 3:35 AM
blindlizard
blindlizard
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Wow, that guy seemed...a little put out.  Like he was above the "Microsoft guy" that had the privilege to come there.

The app seems lame, you can't post audio or video?  What about images, he never touched on those.  I might as well write my own...

#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 4:01 AM
Michael Butler
Michael Butler
That's pretty neat.

I wonder if the source-code is available, I'd like to convert the app to support .Text blogs too. Then I could use it over at my blog on WDevs.

Maybe I'll wait for the new Visual Studio 2005 for Office. It'll probably be a snap to write a similar toolbar using C# with that.

Nice to see a non-Microsoft company on Channel 9.
#Sep 8th, 2005 @ 6:55 AM
Dean_186
Dean_186
Future is Clear.... Microsoft
Scoble you went to google. :O Make sure steve ballmer dont see this lol.  But for a google office its not as nicey as a microsoft office. lol hope microsoft wins the google case
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