ScribbleLive Official Blog | Liveblog live blogging

Since we launched last week, the number one most requested feature has been an embed: the ability to put your liveblog directly on your site. Who am I to argue?

Here’s the alpha of what the embed, powered by an iframe. Obviously we’ll be rolling out many more features to customize it to the style of your site, but what do you think? Will this work for you? Please drop me a line in the comments with your feedback.

Oh, and don’t think I’ve given up on a really cool Wordpress integration feature. It just needs a little more testing before it’s released

This week ScribbleLive was mentioned on net@net (about 25 minutes in) by The Amber Mac and Leo Laporte. Not to gush here, and Amber knows this embarrassing truth, but I’m a massive TWiT fan! I try to catch as many episodes of all the series as I can (when I’m not working on Scribble*). I’m very flattered to be mentioned

I guarantee there’s definitely a little bit of TWiT in ScribbleLive. I was always thinking how great it would be to have a liveblog of all the links and videos mentioned in a TWiT-cast, and I built ScribbleLive around a lot of those ideas. We also tried to make the right decisions when it came to building a site that the web-community would embrace, by bringing together a lot of popular tools to do one thing and one thing well. We’re committed to a product roadmap that will make us an open product via an API, and are looking to work with other startups whenever possible. That cross-pollination of the web is a value I think we share with a lot of the TWiT community, and I hope that we’re able to bring something to the party

So thanks again to Amber for the callout and you’ll be seeing much more of us in the weeks to come!

Michael and I decided today that we’re going to try to do everything we can to get ScribbleLive ready for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC08) in a couple weeks. I know, we’re insane

Last year, the keynote on MacRumors drove over 200,000 simultaneous visitors to their site. We’re by no means that well known, but assuming everything goes great and we get Dugg or something, we could be looking at uniques in the six-digits. For our Ajax updates, that means tens of thousands of hits per second!

As we get closer to the keynote on June 9th, we’re going to scale up our grid servers, and supplement that with a CDN. Still waiting to see who we’re going to go with but we’ve got 8 business days to figure that out

I’ll be blogging our progress with our scaling over the next couple of weeks. If you have any suggestions or want to help out, drop me a line in the comments. Also, check out our new WWDC08 area on ScribbleLive. It’ll be pulling together all the liveblogs of people attending the conference. If you’re at the conference, we’d love you to try out ScribbleLive If you do, I’ll totally buy you a drink if you’re ever in Toronto!

Thank again to everyone who has tried out ScribbleLive since the TechCrunch story broke last week. It’s been great hearing all your comments.

Happy Liveblogging!

Wow, ScribbleLive made the home page of TechCrunch today. Nice!

We are getting a huge wave of traffic as a result. I can’t login to our servers from the guest wifi at the mesh conference to see how things are going, but I’ll definitely throw a few more servers into the grid when I get home tonight

UPDATE @ 5:37pm: We also got cross-posted to the Washington Post. Servers are running at about 8% so we’re good so far *knock on wood*

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We met Erick from Techcrunch today at mesh, and we got into CrunchBase! Thanks guys!