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Pagination comes to ScribbleLive

By Jonathan + August 13th, 2008

We asked you to liveblog the Olympics and you responded with some of the longest liveblogs we have ever seen (e.g. liveblog of Olympic opening ceremony). Fair enough We don’t want to crimp your style and set limits on how long your liveblogs can be, so today we are introducing pagination. [...]

At ScribbleLive we’re getting excited about the Beijing Olympics starting this Friday! To get ready, I’ve been coding for couple weeks to add some new features. We now have the tools to make your Olympic liveblogs interactive like never before, and integrate with your site like no one else.

On our Olympics page we [...]

Countdown to 2008 Summer Olympic Games!

By Jonathan + July 28th, 2008

As you can tell, we’re cooking up a lot of liveblogging goodness for the Beijing Olympics on ScribbleLive. There will be lots of great features launching before the opening ceremonies on August 8th, so make sure to keep checking back! Happy liveblogging!

Liveblogging from iPhone with ScribbleLive

By Jonathan + July 15th, 2008

What kind of developer would I be if I didn’t have ScribbleLive working on an iPhone now that they’re finally available up here in Canada?

Now when you go to www.scribblelive.com on your iPhone, you’ll get a version of the site that’s skinned for the smaller screen. I moved around a few things to [...]

ScribbleLive now has on-the-fly translation

By Jonathan + June 22nd, 2008

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, [...]

WWDC Keynote Liveblog Stats

By Jonathan + June 10th, 2008

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

By Jonathan + June 9th, 2008

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

By Jonathan + May 29th, 2008

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 [...]

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