The Lifeblog Posting Protocol spec is available for download from Nokia:

"This is the technical document that explains how we use Atom to post multimedia content online. Use this document to figure out how to adapt your servers to use Lifeblog 1.5."

Atom support for the excellent MarsEdit is on the way, according to Brent:

"MarsEdit doesn’t yet support titles for Blogger."

"It will—but it requires implementing the Atom weblog editing API first. This is MarsEdit’s top priority."

Our friends over at BuzzNet recently launched their Developer Network. Along with the usual stuff (docs, feed list), they've also got a nice Community Wishlist of apps & tools for folks to hack on. We're assembling a similar list for Blogger's API — stay tuned for details.

Remain calm and do not panic. We're switching to a more secure Google-wide account system. What does this mean? Basically, it means that our APIs are all going to be available over SSL. We're not turning off the old API endpoints, but tools not using SSL won't be able to send usernames and passwords over the clear. Which pretty much means they will seem broken.

The good news is, we're not just gonna leave you hanging. We're building a special PIN system for use with non SSL tools. Blogger 1.0, 2.0, and Atom 0.3 are all going to be available over SSL. Since our Atom 0.3 support is still beta, we will switch to only support HTTP Basic Authentication over SSL. As our Blogger API support is considered stable, we will support both regular passwords over SSL and a new PIN system over non-SSL connections.

So users of non SSL tools will be able to visit Blogger.com and get a special password but you'll agree this is not optimal. What we recommend and encourage is that you, gentle Blogger developer, switch to an XML-RPC toolkit that can do SSL and make the appropriate changes to your fine offerings.

We're planning on initiating this move in a few weeks and we'll work to make sure our user base understands what's going on as well. We'll keep you updated on the BDN blog with any significant news. Please accept our apologies if this switch messes up your weekend or causes you any trouble but ultimately, it's for the best--think of the
possibilities!

[originally posted by Shellen]

Today, we launched support for Atom in Blogger. This means that all Blogger users now have the ability to syndicate their blog content in a rich XML format (see What is Atom?). In addition, we have rolled out beta support for the Atom API. This means a more robust API for you to use in creating new blogging applications. Some of the benefits of the new API are:

• support for titles
• tighter integration with the
  syndication format and editing tools
• extensibility
• easy-to-use WSDL file to work with most SOAP toolkits
• higher security authentication using WSSE
• more robust Blogger endpoint
• support for SOAP and REST

More documentation will follow in the next few weeks as the Atom API moves to version 1.0. In the meanwhile, you may want to try the SOAP Atom API client in C# and this WSDL file. You should be able to drop this WSDL file into most developer tools. You can test this client against our Atom API endpoint at: http://www.blogger.com/atom/. You should enter the endpoint where it currently says http://localhost/AtomApi.asmx in the WSDL. For more general Atom information visit AtomEnabled.org.

As always, feedback and comments are appreciated.

[originally posted by Shellen]