Google has released a new version of it’s popular Blogging tool Blogger.

It is still in BETA but it seems that you can register if you sign in using your Google account and not your Blogger account. Update: This is how it works:

If you can’t wait, you can create a new account on the beta now and make a new blog to test out the new features. Because the new Blogger uses Google Accounts, you can use your existing Google login, or create a new one. (Later, you’ll be able to merge your current and beta accounts, and have all your blogs in one place.)

You can go and check a little tour before you decide if you want to switch over already.

Some of the new features are pretty cool and some features have we been waiting a long time on. Haven’t we? The new features can be summed up like this:

• Categorize your posts with “labels”
• Dynamic Serving (leading to faster publishing)
• Control who can read your blog (private blogs) update – seems there are some bugs with this – don’t go publishing anything too private yet.
• Change the appearance and content of your blog with your mouse instead of HTML (sort of like widgets)
• New Dashboard
• New Templates
• User accounts will now be Google accounts instead of Blogger accounts
• More Feed options (ie feeds for comments on your blog, feeds for comments on individual posts as well as RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0)

If you have already switched to the new BETA please post a comment and tell us how it works, and if it’s any useful. Thank you!

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