The big thing we missed with Blogger is the network. We competed for years on features—trying to not lose users to the power tools (MT and later WordPress), and not taking advantage of the fact we had all these readers coming to our (pseudo-) centralized system. From that, we could have built distribution and feedback mechanisms that are much more important than any other feature. Imagine moving your Tumblr or tweets to another system. It doesn’t make sense, because it’s about the network. Of course, hindsight is 20/20. But we did think about it at the time: you guys remember the mockups we had for aggregating and putting posts on the home page? Later, at Google, we had a concept of “Blogger Hubs.”

- Evan Williams Co-founder of Twitter and Blogger via Branch