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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

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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!

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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!

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By popular demand, crossposts and embeds now change sort order

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

We’ve had a lot of interest at ScribbleLive in our new crossposting feature, and a lot of people are also using the more-traditional iframe-embed. It’s been great getting your feedback. One thing that has consistently been asked for is, “can the liveblogs appear newest-to-oldest while an event is live, then switch to oldest-to-newest afterwards?” Generally, everyone seems to agree that that would make it easier for their visitors. Well, who are we to disagree? :D

As of today, the iframe-embed will be sorted newest->oldest during live events, until 30 minutes after your last post. Since some of these events are getting really long, I also introduced pagination in those embeds so they load faster for your users. Your avatars will now show-up too. There’s an example of what they look like below. If you have an embed already installed on your site, it’s been automatically switched over to the new version so you don’t have to do anything.

For crossposted liveblogs, once you connect a liveblog to your site, your entries will appear newest-to-oldest. When your event is over (or almost over) you’ll find a new button in the right bar on scribblelive.com: “Close blog entry.” Clicking that button will reorder your liveblog oldest-to-newest and remove all the ScribbleLive scripts from your page. Basically, clicking that button gets us completely out of your hair ;)

I hope you like the new feature! Happy liveblogging :D

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Sorry, brief outage on October 7th *UPDATE*

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Tonight during unprecedented traffic during the 2nd Presidential Debate, we had a brief outage on ScribbleLive. We take our uptime very seriously and immediately engaged priority support when we went offline. Unfortunately, it took longer than ideal to get the site back online and I sincerely apologize.

ScribbleLive is a Beta product and as such, we take events like this as a major learning experience. Based on the event tonight, we immediately made a change that will further enhance our hosting capabilities, and that change is now holding the traffic at levels higher than before the outage.

As we grow, we will continue to work on producing a stable platform, and I hope that you will continue to work with us. Please leave a comment or email us at info@scribblelive.com if you have any comments or questions.

Thank you for your patience tonight and happy liveblogging!
–Jonathan, founder of ScribbleLive

UPDATE: We have identified the cause of the problems last night to be a failing processor in one of our primary servers. We will replace the processor during a brief downtime this Saturday between 4am-8am CST. I will post more details as they emerge.

UPDATE #2: The failing processor has been replaced and, to be extra safe, we also replaced the entire chassis. We’ve been closely monitoring all our systems for the last couple of days and we are confident that the errors are gone. To further show our commitment to being a stable platform you can rely on, we will have a DBA, Network Technician and myself actively monitoring our systems during the Apple event this Tuesday (Oct 14) and the next Presidential debate on Wednesday (Oct 15). Happy liveblogging! :D

scribblelive

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Canadian Leadership Debate Liveblogging Round-up

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Last night there was all sorts of liveblogging of the Canadian Leadership Debate in English on ScribbleLive. We had over 5,400 posts from dozens of authors last night, and it was great to see our Wordpress crossposting feature being used all over the place.

The Canadian University Press definitely gets the award for the most people in a single thread liveblogging ever. When the main writer, Carl, lost his wifi connection, the commenters continued to liveblog the event (and drink beer according to their posts) ;) Carl eventually got back online and posted some photos of the event.

For the second night in a row, Maclean’s was liveblogging the debate too. They were using crossposting to send all their updates to their Wordpress.com blog. Looks like all the buzz around their liveblog made them #12 in the Top Blogs today. Congrats, guys!

We had another few great blogs using our embed feature to liveblog including the Western Standard Blog and THIS Magazine.

Great job covering the debate everyone! It was hilarious to watch all your commentary. Please join us again on ScribbleLive for all your wacky, obsessive, liveblogging needs each and every debate…or anything else that’s fun to liveblog ;)

Crowds outside Canadian leadership debate

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Flickr2Facebook: #8 Most Active Facebook Web-App

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

It’s insane to me that my humble Flickr2Facebook bookmarklet is #8 most active Facebook web-app! It is SOOOOOOO ugly. I don’t know how you guys stand it ;)

Anyhow, in honour of this momentous occasion, I hereby pledge to make it less ugly. I don’t know how. I don’t know when. But somehow I will make it not look like I spit-up on the screen.

Thanks to everyone who continues to use it! You guys r0×0rs! :D

P.S. ScribbleLive is sitting at #23.

Flick2Facebook

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See all the events your Facebook friends are going to

Monday, September 29th, 2008

It’s always bugged me that there’s no way in Facebook to see all the (Facebook) events your friends are going to. You can see all the events that you are going to, and your home page shows you a bit of what they are up to today, but there’s no easy way to look beyond that. For example, I’m thinking of having a party on Friday. How busy are my friends? Is anyone going to any good concerts? etc.

Where are my f(acebook)ing friends? (pronounced: “where are my f-ing friends”) is a quick little site I whipped up to do just that. You just login with your Facebook account and it will run through all your friends, compiling a list of all the events they are going to for the next week. It even maps out the events on a Google Map to see what’s happening in your neck of the woods.

Anyhow, it’s definitely still Beta but please give it a try and drop me some comments if you love it, hate it, or anywhere in-between. Now go have fun stalking your friends! :D


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Kicking off our election coverage

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Today we launched ScribbleLive’s new Canadian election section: Canada Votes 2008. We’re going to maintain liveblogs of what’s happening in the campaign leading up to the vote on October 18th. The night of, we’ll have live feeds of the results coming in and key ridings being won and lost. Join in with us, or create your own election liveblog with the keyword “Canvote08″ in the title. Should be a fun night! :D

Canadian Election
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HOWTO: Liveblogging with MSN Messenger or GTalk

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

In this screencast, we unveil a new feature on ScribbleLive: Instant Messenger integration. You can now liveblog right from your IM client to ScribbleLive (or to your Wordpress site). For now we’re launching with MSN Messenger and Google Talk (or any Jabber client), but more clients are coming soon.

To get started, watch the screencast to see how it works, then add bot@scribblelive.com as a friend.

Please give it a try and drop any questions or comments in the blog comments. Happy liveblogging! :D

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