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Another Apple Event Sends Traffic Soaring on ScribbleLive

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Every Apple announcement gets more and more busy around here, and today wasn’t any exception. The fun all started at 1pm EST as thousands of Apple fanboys and fangirls started hitting our dozens of liveblogs to see what Steve Jobs was going to announce. We had everybody from TechCrunch to Reuters liveblogging from the event.

At our peak we were serving thousands of hits per second across our three CDN providers and Amazon cloud-based infrastructure. For the first time, we had hundreds of people following along through ScribbleLive Mobile on their iPhone as well as online.

Thank you to everyone who joined us today and happy liveblogging!

Jonathan Keebler
CTO/Founder

Comment from Email to any Live Event

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Now it’s even easier to comment from any device. With our short email addresses for every live blog, you can send text, images, audio and video files and see them appear in the live event in no time at all. Providing your moderator approves. ;-)

If you’re a writer and you want to reach out to all those watchers on mobile devices, send out this short email address and watch the comments pour in. It’s available to all under the Options tab in the right column of the live blog. Live blogging just keeps getting better and better using ScribbleLive, a live publishing platform. Happy live blogging!

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mesh09: We’re back!

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

mesh conference

Just 10 months ago we launched our Beta at the mesh conference in Toronto and it’s been a wild ride ever since. Erick Schonfeld and our friends at TechCrunch put us on the map with a great article back in May 2008 and the mesh community really helped launch us onto the scene.

Well this year we’re back at mesh09 and we couldn’t be happier. We’ve teamed up with the mesh guys and we’re pleased to unveil the official liveblogging site for the conference at mesh.scribblelive.com.

Using our Enterprise liveblogging platform, everyone’s invited to liveblog the sessions in real-time using our collaborative environment. Just use your Twitter, Facebook, MSN Live, or OpenID account to login. It’s easy to start your own liveblog or join-in with others. Pull in tweets about your session from a Twitter live-search, and crosspost to your own blog with Wordpress integration or embeds.

We’re inviting everyone to try out the site before the conference and drop us a line if you have any suggestions/questions/comments/rants ;)

Look forward to seeing everyone at mesh09!

mesh liveblogging site powered by ScribbleLive

SXSW09 Live Blogs (all 28 of them)!

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

With SXSW interactive coming to a close today, we would like to thank everyone who liveblogged the hell out of the sessions for the education/enjoyment of the rest of us suckers who weren’t down there. We’ve been following along all week and you guys did an awesome job!

Hope to meet you all at mesh in a couple weeks where we can thank you in person (and get a beer) :)

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New Look, New Features

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

There’s nothing like a MacWorld in the world of liveblogging. I often tell people that it’s the quintessential example of liveblogging. This January, we wanted to have something special for the users of ScribbleLive. We’ve been working on a major redesign for weeks, and this week we officially go live. This launch brings, not only a new look, but a new set of features and service enhancements.

The first thing you’ll notice is the look-and-feel. Since liveblogs are all about reading, we’ve made everything on our site as easy to read as possible; big, clean fonts everywhere on soft backgrounds. There’s nothing like 80px fonts to enhance readability :) There’s also much more sliding using the script.aculo.us library.

We’ve been trying to get a Twitter integration that makes sense for months, and I think we have it now. Not only do we make it really easy to “follow” a Twitter account and pull all their tweets into your liveblog, but we have a new Twitter live-search that will constantly check Twitter for anyone talking about your topic. The tweets will appear right in the sidebar where you can easily pull them in as comments. This provides a never-ending stream of comments for your events. Here’s a video walkthrough of using Twitter in your liveblogs. And of course, you can login to ScribbleLive with your Twitter account.

Another great feature we now have are “sticky” posts. During your liveblog you can click the “stick” button next to any post to pin it at the top of your liveblog. It’s a great way to keep a score or video stream where everyone can see it, or just use it as promotion for your site. We can’t wait to see how people use it and look forward to your feedback. This video walkthrough also shows you how to use sticky posts.

We now support any Flash embed. Just copy-paste the HTML for your embed directly into the input box and we’ll take care of posting it. We always supported YouTube but now you can embed videos from Ustream, Qik, or any other Flash widget. You can even write your own and embed them!

As well as the features you can see, there’s several big changes under-the-hood. We completely changed how live-updates work to use the power of the Amazon cloud products to handle more watchers than ever before. On Tuesday we successfully served up over 11M hits without any performance impact. We don’t just want to be the flashiest live publishing platform out there, we also want to have the most horsepower.

There are many more changes with this launch and the best way to see them all is to try us out! Thanks to everyone who sent us suggestions and please keep them coming. We love to hear what you think.

Happy liveblogging!

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berlineblase.de builds liveblogging console for Le Web ‘08

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Wow, I’m really impressed by what the berlineblase.de guys have built to cover Le Web ‘08 today. They put the ScribbleLive embed alongside the video stream of the event. It looks great and they have some great running commentary of the event.

Nice job guys! It’s great to see ScribbleLive taking on more of a roll as a platform for liveblogging, a focus we will continue to develop this month with the launch of our whitelabel product and a major redesign. Happy liveblogging!

The Score launches new liveblogs powered by ScribbleLive

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Today is the inauguration of The Score’s new liveblogging site liveblogs.thescore.com powered by ScribbleLive. We’re very happy to be working with The Score on the first white-label version of ScribbleLive’s liveblogging platform. Even if you’re not at a computer, you can follow along on your iPhone with ScoreMobile. There’s lots more to come from The Score in the coming weeks, so keep checking back!

Today from 1pm EST Scott from Raptorblog.com will be liveblogging the Raptor’s game on the web or on ScoreMobile. Come join in!

TheScore-ScribbleLive integration

See how many people are watching your liveblog!

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

With the US election tomorrow night, we couldn’t resist rolling out a new much-requested feature on ScribbleLive: a real-time visitor counter!

Everyone is curious how many people are watching their liveblog, and now it’s easy to find out. Whether you have your liveblog embedded, crossposted, or are linking right to scribblelive.com, we’ll keep track of the number of unique visitors watching your event in real-time. You’ll find the count right in the header and it’s accurate to about 20 seconds. The entire system is built on memcached so it can keep pace with all the traffic you hit us with.

There’s even more to come in the way of metrics including traffic graphs and other statistics. If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see, drop me a comment.

Hope everyone has fun liveblogging tomorrow night! Happy liveblogging!

Avatars for crossposted liveblogs

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Now that we have avatars on ScribbleLive, your may decide that you want your avatars to show up on your crossposted liveblogs. Not a problem! We are now attaching CSS classes to the HTML that we crosspost. The posts from each writer have a CSS class like Writer1234 (1234 is their unique ID on ScribbleLive.com).

We’ve whipped up a stylesheet you can use to style your crossposted events. Here’s an example of the CSS it will produce for a liveblog with four writers in it. Here’s an example of a crossposted liveblog with avatars.

To get started, please follow these steps:

  1. Follow the steps to create a liveblog on ScribbleLive and crosspost it to your blog
  2. Open your Wordpress admin area and edit the post that was created in step #1
  3. At the very end of the HTML of the post, you will see something like this:

    <script type="text/javascript">var LastPostLiveBlog = "10/2/2008 9:40:43 PM"; var ThreadLiveBlog1234 = new LiveBlog1234( 1234, true, LastPostLiveBlog, "", false, null, document.getElementById("LiveBlog1234Posts"), 400 );ThreadLiveBlog1234.PollForNew();</script>

  4. Make note of the numerical number — your liveblog id — that appears throughout. In the example above, the number is 1234.
  5. Append this stylesheet HTML to the very top of the post, replacing #### with your liveblog id from #4:
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.scribblelive.com/crossposting/css/v2.aspx?Id=####" type="text/css" media="all" />
  6. That’s it, you’re done!