Blogger Turns Eight Years Old

Last Thursday was Blogger’s eighth birthday, with the world’s first real blogging service surviving for an amazing number of years. This months is also the one-year anniversary of when we found out a new version of Blogger was coming, and thank god for that. If you’d told me before then that Blogger would last ten years, I’d call you crazy, but they’ve done a real good job the last year, guaranteeing the service survives at least a few more.
Can Blogger ever become number one again? I doubt it. Windows Live Spaces proved that users like their blogging as part of more of a social networking experience, so unless Google plans on making Blogger more of a communications platform than a publishing one, Blogger will be successful, but never have the place it used to.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg