Keebler/Blog

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!