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Early on the 21st Century, there was a fever, it was called weblogs. Several different blog services started popping up over the Internet, in 2001 [Blogger.com](https://www.blogger.com) was the most popular one. Around that time, Blogger's founder, [Evan Williams](https://twitter.com/ev) (the same guy that later founded [Twitter.com](https://twitter.com) and [Medium.com](https://medium.com)) implemented and shared an API for the service, based on [Dave Winer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer)'s [XML-RPC protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC), that was a seminal work for all modern Web API standards.

As I had recently started my personal blog, I got interested in learning how to use an API like the one Blogger had, so I created the freeware project **Bloggar** (with an "a"), that in portuguese sounded exactly as the (neology) verb "to blog". Early on, it got some traction over the web and Ev Williams blogged about it, driving a lot of new users to my tool. Just before I release version 2.0, I got an email from Ev asking me to rename the tool as it's pronunciation in english was too close to their trade mark. So I renamed it to w.bloggar as a reference to weblog and Windows (the target platform for the tool).
As I had recently started my personal blog, I got interested in learning how to use an API like the one Blogger had, so I created the freeware project **Bloggar** (with an "a"), that in portuguese sounded exactly as the (neology) verb "to blog". Early on, it got some traction over the web and Ev Williams blogged about it, driving a lot of new users to my tool. Just before I release version 2.0, I got an email from Ev asking me to rename the tool as it's pronunciation in english was too close to their trade mark. So I renamed it to **w.bloggar** as a reference to weblog and Windows (the target platform for the tool).

During the next 6 years I had a lot of fun developing this project, added support to pretty much all blog services in the market (with API), translated to multiple languages, I made a lot of friends all over the world, gave interviews, had w.bloggar cited in several books and magazines, got some donation and even negotiated a possible purchase of the tool by Blogger.com, months before they were acquired by Google. If that deal was made, w.bloggar could have become a Google project.

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