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Google Helps Offer Blogger Pro For Free

Khazunga writes "News.com is reporting that the Google-owned Pyra are releasing the formerly-$35/year Blogger Pro weblog service for free. This is backed up by an announcement from Evan Williams at the Blogger Pro site, as well as a list of the newly free Blogger features. It's the dot-com frenzy all over again! Free services with no business plan... run for your lives!"

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  1. Yeay! by qmrq · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now we get to listen to all the little teenie bopper girls out there talk about makeup problems, who the cutest boy in class is, who kissed who behind whose back..

    We also get to listen to middle-aged women who do the blog thing bitch. Woo!

  2. Re:business plan... by ErixTr · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. The reality is;

    1. Profit
    2. ???
    3. Release formerly profitable software for free

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    less is more
  3. Re:Squatters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of the story I heard about a company that wanted a site developed called News Exchange. The domain name they wanted? newsexchange.com.au
    The developers made the company realise the folly of the plan by making the title of the site "NewS exChange"

  4. Re:Bloggers are smarter by daveo0331 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even with spell checking, it will bee easy too tell who knows how to spell correctly, who van avoid making typos, whom knows how to use grammar correct, and who can avoid using, improper punctuation.

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    Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?