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This QuickTip is about Google's March 2013 (spring for them) product retirements, and how they affect Blogger users. For a while, every time the season changes Google have announced a set of product retirements. This quarter's announcement is just out, and you can find it here . In short, the changes are: Apps Script will stop supporting GUI Builder and five UiApp widgets from September 16, 2013. CalDAV API only be available to whitelisted developers, from September 16, 2013. Us Google Calendar's API, instead. Google Building Maker will be retired on June 1 2013. Google Cloud Connect won't be available from April 30 (use Google Drive's desktop app instead). Google Reader stops working on July 1, 2013, Export your subscriptions and use another company's RSS feed-reader. (No recommendations given) The Google Voice App for Blackberry won't be supported from next week. (Use Google's HTML5 app with Blackberry version 6 and over instead.) The Search...

This quick-tip is about Google's winter 2012 product cancellations, which appear to have less impact on most Blogger users than their recent seasonal purges. Today, Google have announced their next round of discontinued products - they used to call it "spring cleaning", but this time around have at least acknowledged that it's winter for half the world, and summer for the other half! Some Google Calendar features are to be discontinued, specifically: Creating new reservable times on a Calendar using Appointments Smart Rescheduler Add gadget by URL. Check your calendar via SMS/text message Create event via SMS/text message (GVENT). My guess is that this may affect some Blogger users, who have integrated a calendar with a blog. It's a fairly specialist area, so likely to be a small number. There are a few other discontinued features, but I suspect they won't affect bloggers to much extent: Google Sync a tool giving access to Google Mail, Calendar and Contact...