Author Archives for Jonathan

Sandy at the beach


Can anybody tell me if it’s safe for my dog to go into Lake Ontario? I’m afraid he’ll grow a second head or something.

ScribbleLive now has on-the-fly translation


Since we launched ScribbleLive a few weeks ago, we’ve been excited to see a lot of people from around the world starting to use it. I built the code from the ground-up to support other languages, but we weren’t planning on rolling anything out so soon. But because of all the great interest, [...]

Kevin Costner in concert?


This can’t be for real, can it?

WWDC Keynote Liveblog Stats


Yesterday was the first big test of ScribbleLive under load during the WWDC keynote where the iPhone 3G was announced. We burned a lot of hours over the last week getting ready, and I start off with a big thanks to our key service partners.

Akamai did their usual stellar job of handling the traffic [...]

WWDC08 starts today on ScribbleLive


The Apple Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off today. It’s our first Apple keynote for ScribbleLive, our new liveblogging site, and we’re excited to already see lots of people on there getting their liveblogs ready for the conference. T-3 hours to the Apple Keynote, and our traffic is already climbing. It’s great to [...]

Liveblogging nextMEDIA: “The Future of Digital Content” all this weekend


This weekend, ScribbleLive is on the road attending the nextMEDIA: The Future of Digital Content (NM08) conference in Banff.

To mark, the occasion, we rolled out some new features on the event pages. If you check-out the event page for NM08, you’ll see a aggregated feed of all the live events and the posts from [...]

Permalinks, Profiles and more Power: ScribbleLive New Features


Tonight we did a rollout of a few new features on ScribbleLive. We’ve got some other big ones coming this week, but hopefully these tied you over until then

Event URLs should now look a little cleaner. We dumped the /Thread.aspx?Id=#### format and moved to sexier URLs like http://www.scribblelive.com/Event/Video_is_Everywhere__mesh08. All the old [...]

Embed ScribbleLive liveblogs on your own site


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 [...]

ScribbleLive on net@night


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 [...]

We’re going to do WWDC08…with*OUT* crashing…probably


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 [...]