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After seriously miffing off old school bloggers with their troublesome decision to withdraw all FTP support, Blogger are looking to sweeten the pill with their new Blogger Template Designer tool.

The  Template Designer has turned up in their ‘Blogger in Draft‘ experimental playground, and promises to “go beyond static templates and reinvent the whole process of designing your blog.”

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We’re mighty big fans of Google Reader at Wirefresh – it’s been our de facto RSS reader for years – but it can take a little while to find out and sort your feeds.

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Google has announced a new feature in search which it believes will make it easier for users to mark and rediscover their favourite web content.

The new feature lets punters mark any search result or map with a star – and this will then appear in a special list at the top of any future relevant search results.

The feature is currently being rolled out for all users over the forthcoming days, so expect to see it soon (it wasn’t appearing for us in the UK yet).

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Although Google Buzz runs fairly dandy from within the iPhone’s browser, the first dedicated app for the innovative social networking tool has been sent out into the wild.

Called Buzie, the app lets users check out Buzz conversations in their local area without logging into the service.

Once signed in, they can then start conversations, or join in with their followers, or just indulge in a good ol’ bout of stalking.

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Google has just announced that it has opened up its big bag of money and acquired the cloud-based photo editing service, Picnik.

The website lets you crop, touch-up and add various effects to your photos from within your web browser.

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Big up Google for acknowledging today as St David’s Day – the national day of Wales – with their search engine homepage showing a rather curious Welsh-themed illustration.

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The folks at Pingdom have treated us to one mahoosive graphic throwing up a ton facts’n'figures related to the search engine giant.

Want to know Google’s marketshare? Global website ranking? Daily visitor total?

Or maybe have a stab at how many pages they’ve indexed?

Click on for all the facts and more and be the toast of the next pub quiz!

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Google has had a tidy up in its GMail Labs inventory, promoting some experimental features to full products while telling others they’re simply not good enough.

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Google have announced what they’re describing as “the next generation of ad serving technology for online publishers,” and are calling it DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP).

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Google has taken the wraps off its latest application for the Android platform, Google Shopper.

Shopper lets you search for product information by using your phone’s camera: point it at the object you’re interested in (e.g. books, CDs, DVDs, and video games) and Google will recognise what it’s looking at and serve up a list of search results, with links to prices, reviews and specs.

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The folks at Google have taken time out of their busy schedules to explain how their innovative Google Voice service works.

Sadly, UK users can jog on at this stage as the service is not available in Blighty, and there seems to be no prospect of it arriving any time soon either – for now, Google Voice is strictly a US-only affair. Bah!

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Google continues to ramp up the set on its online Google Docs service, with the latest addition being an extended web clipboard floating about in the cloud.

The web clipboard lets you store any text cut or copied ‘in the cloud’ and then paste it into another Google Docs document, with all the original formatting remaining intact.

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Google’s ever-grasping tentacles have reached out to ensnare Aardvark, a technology company that, “lets you quickly and easily tap into the knowledge and experience of your friends and extended network of contacts. Aardvark analyses questions to determine what they’re about and then matches each question to people with relevant knowledge and interests to give you an answer quickly.”

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With disgruntlement hitting critical levels after hideous security flaws were uncovered in  Google’s new Buzz service, the company has added swiftly to repair the damage.

Acknowledging users’ concerns about  their contacts being made public without their knowledge, the lack of control over who could follow them and the inability to block people without public profiles, Google has published up a lengthy blog post explaining the changes they’ve implemented:

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We love trying out new stuff from Google, and excitedly signed up to their new Twitter/Facebook mash-up, Google Buzz.

To get you up and running fast, Buzz automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow, and these are chosen by who you email and chat with most using Gmail.

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