new UI for blogger finally available

Already mentioned that google is planning to change the looks of the blogger.Now its official,google is launching the service gradually.Though for the initial phase,it'll be available only to 'blogger in draft' users-the testing ground of blogger.Even there,it'll not be available to all users simultaneously but gradually.As expected from a new product launch,it has its share of 'rough edges'(see this page for the known issues).

Today,
we're thrilled to announce the public launch of our redesign! But
please wait a second before you go check out your Blogger dashboard,
because we’re planning a gradual rollout that will start with a limited
set of users who visit our new feature testing ground, Blogger in Draft.
At the start, only some of you (lucky draws!) can see the new design on
Blogger in Draft. Over the course of the next few days and weeks we’ll
be ramping up to support all Draft users. There is no sign-up or
activation process required from your side; just wait, and you’ll notice
your dashboard has changed to the new design when you log in to Blogger in Draft.

changed UI for @google services

Joined google plus few days back.

After this,i am seeing new UIs for many google services.Dont know if this has anything to do with google+ or google is rolling the new features as it is.

As mentioned here,google is providing new inbox styles to its users.My inbox now looks like this.

 This is actually better;because now the keyboard shortcut is not contradictory anymore.Previously g->i leads to priority inbox but according to the shortcut list it should take us to inbox.This contradiction ends now.
As mentioned in these articles,blogger was planned to undergo a UI change.Its finally available for me.

The look is good;but this is causing some problem for me.Particularly the location feature is not working.Previously i enjoyed this feature and make few posts with my locations;but now whenever i searched for barrackpore,it shows unknown location.Same for kolkata,westbengal or india.Apparently,blogger stooped recognising any place in india.Dont know if this is an india-centric action or generalised to other countries as well.

Edit1:The location service is working now.I dont know what happened different this time.Just that,after selecting location option,a pop-up informed me that draft.blogger.com wanted to access my location and asked for my permission.After allowing it,the location is working now;but i was never asked this particular question previously!!!!!!!!!!why not & why now?Something to do with chromium v14??????????
Edit2:Firefox(v6,beta2) is asking now,too.

webkit based UI for blogger going to be announced at SXSW

In the year 2005 i bought a nokia6670 and started using internet in earnest;before that i used to surf once in a month(or sometimes in a wk).I remember the first thing i've done was creating a blog in geocities;unfortunately yahoo closed this service.Anyway after that i created few other blogs in other blog hosting platform but there was always something lacking.in the year 2009 i finally opened an account in "blogger".Frankly speaking i was disappointed with the service;but then i always expect gr8 things from google.Anyway they made huge changes in 2010  (introduced template designer, real-time stats, comment spam filtering, mobile templates, web fonts .) and my search for other blog hosting service finallly stopped.

Now they are going to introduce further changes in 2011 particularly in the UI department(going to be announced at SXSW).According to google,

 
The new design is not only cleaner and more modern, but it also uses Google Web Toolkit, delivering the latest in web technology.

Few screenshots comparing the present and future UI of blooger is shown below

Current post editor

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New post editor

 

Current dashboard

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New dashboard