Like chocolate and peanut butter

I've been long looking forward to having Google+ Comments in Blogger.  Nice work +Yonatan Zunger and +Henry Wong (and lots of others).  I'm looking forward to using it.  Most of my activity is on Google+ these days, but I really miss a lot of things from Blogger as well.  Maybe this will let me have the best of both worlds?

The hill outside Google HQ, about a 270 degree panorama.

Hi, I'm John and I +1'd this Post

So Tim just added +1 buttons to his blog -- I thought I'd do the same, then realized I already had them. Since Abstractioneer is hosted on Blogger, and I already have Share buttons turned on, it's an automatic upgrade. Nice work Blogger team!

Track Built on Open Specifications

The Google Buzz team just rolled out the Track feature, which lets you subscribe to real time updates for search terms via PubSubHubbub.   It's pretty awesome, and builds on top of the work we've done for the Buzz Firehose.  A search query is just like any other URL -- say, https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/track?q=coffee+OR+tea -- and you can subscribe to it with PubSubHubbub using existing code.  In fact that URL will work in any PubSubHubbub-enabled client (like Google Reader).