Below is a copy of an email sent to Google/Blogger.com. Let’s see if it does anything. I’ve also posted on Google Groups.

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I was wondering what future plans you have for Blogger.com. It seams that nothing has really been done to it in sometime. There are a lot of features that I see people want, however they are always referred to third parties (e.g. Chatterbox, Quizzilla, Haloscan, or BraveNet).

While all of these third parties offer nice services, it is impossible to really integrate it into a person’s site/blog. For example, I cannot use Chatterbox, and limit it to only register blogger members.

I see sites like TypePad, Xanga, Live Journal, and MSN Spaces offering members all sorts of features that Blogger.com doesn’t. Some are simple, while some are not. Heck, I wouldn’t mind paying a small fee for some of the better features that the other services offer.

Now, I know that in reference to the Blogger*Plus, your site states:

“… we’re working as hard as we can to build fun, new stuff into Blogger!”

What is coming? When is it coming? That statement was there before I joined Blogger. It’d be nice to know what to expect to see in the future. I know, I know, Google doesn’t like to comment on future plans.

Personally, I’d love to see Blogger.com start to offer a full flavored CMS system (e.g 107, PHP-Nuke, Post Nuke, etc) to their customers. Make it so that when logged into Blogger.com people can reply to my topics, vote/comment in polls, or add me to their blogroll, or maybe even be greeted by a personal welcome message on my site. Even if this kind of setup were only for paying customers, it, IMO, would be an awesome thing. I know you’d make at least one sale.

Adding the ability for members to join a blog ring or two would be another nice feature. In addition, it would help with Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

I guess that’s enough for now. I could continue on all day, but rather I’ll sum it up by saying I’d just like to see Blogger offer more to it’s members.

Thanks,
Bryan