For the last couple of months, Michael and I have been working on a mash-up of the technology behind my WYSIWYG wiki software, WhyYouShould, Facebook, Live, and Amazon S3. Our goal was to put the power of WhyYouShould towards live blogging.
I noticed early-on in WhyYouShould’s life, that people were using it as a quick way to create lists about events as they unfolded. I think it was mostly because it was easy and fast to create lists with your friends. A couple months ago, we decided to try to productize it, and here we are 
Shift Edit is even easier to use than WhyYouShould, and people can watch your live blog without having to reload the page. New entries appear automatically and the page scrolls down to show them (if you’re scrolled to the bottom). You can upload images that will be resized and displayed. Editing entries you have already posted is as easy as clicking on the text, making your edit, and clicking back into the new entry box. Your edits will change in everyone’s browsers in seconds!
To login to Shift Edit, there’s no need to create another account. You can login using your Facebook account or your MSN account, and you’re in! Once you create a blog of your own, you get an invite code that your friends can use to live blog with you.
There’s a lot more features coming over the next few months, so keep an eye out. If you want to try it out yourself, you can create a new blog or join one I already started.
So I hope you like the new Alpha. Just drop me a comment if you have any suggestions for how to improve it. I’d love to hear your feedback!
Have fun!
Congrats on the release! I installed the Facebook app, but I’ll check out the whole thing.
I plan to use it during Toronto Fashion Week… the stuff I’m NOT allowed to say on the web site
Make it prettier. Design, simplicity and Customization are very important for a blogging tool.
It’s almost too EASY to USE !
Congratulations. I wil try to cover some Tourism activity in Italy or why not, an Art exhibition…. Come to think about it
Now anyone can be a real journalist out there, live where it’s happening just like CNN except for the live video.
Ideally, there would be a way to move liveblogged content over to my regular blog when the session is over. Otherwise, it looks like a super easy to use service!
Cool idea.. btw.. you can do more by enabling rest!
check out and you will be amazed
http://blogs.msdn.com/dseven/archive/2007/02/10/boise-code-camp-enabling-rest-in-asp-net.aspx
where to use it.. when somebody creates a new event say ‘Birthdayparty’ it should create a url http://www.shiftedit.com/birthdayparty if it is available instead of
http://www.shiftedit.com/Thread.aspx?Id=
Keep it up
Requiring a login at the site is an arrogant, web 1.0 mistake.
@someone: Are you serious?
Common! I let you use any of your pre-existing logins. Forgetaboutit.