Google blogging platform “Blogger” will turn 10-years old in late August. Here’s some interesting facts: “Every minute /day, 270,000 words are written on Blogger, Almost 2/3rd traffic comes from outside North America (What's the #2 country after U.S.? Brazil, followed by Turkey, Spain, Canada, and the U.K.)”

Google launched several extensions to the Gadget API that'll enable developers to build more relevant and engaging gadgets for Blogger. Here’s a wish list; So now that you know, get started building Gadgets for Blogger now. Note: Report bugs releated to APIs on Blogger Developer Group.

Also, Blogger begin display, a block of contextual ads after publishing blog posts. Until now, Google's blogging platform didn't include ads and it was only monetized by making it easy for publishers to use AdSense ads.