Now when you are blogging in any language, people from around the world can watch along through our new on-the-fly translation feature. We can translate to English, French, Spanish, Italian and German for now. More to come later.

Say you are blogging in Italian, visitors from around the world can choose a language from the “Translate” box, and all your posts will be translated to that language for them. Not only will it translate all the posts that are already there, but it will translate whatever you type when it appears on their screen.

The translation may still have a few bugs to shake out, but I’d love to get your thoughts. I’ve been catching up on the Italian WWDC blog myself

Have fun!

Akamai did their usual stellar job of handling the traffic the event generated, and deflected the vast majority of the traffic off our origin servers. We were able to feed continuous updates to almost 8,000 visitors with very little load on our systems. Now that we know our caching algorithm is stable, we can go bigger next time and get some real load on the servers

I’d also like to thank our host GoGrid for helping us get our servers ready for the event. Their dedicated cloud servers handled the bandwidth and the load without a hiccup. And it only cost $15 for the entire day! These guys have been a great option for a bootstrap startup like us.

Now to get down to the numbers

3.33 Pages/Visit
04:58 Avg. Time on Site
81.47% % New Visits
Akamai Page Views: 2.3 Million
Total Page Volume: 13.4 GB
S3 cost: $0.63
Peak bandwidth: 171 views/sec at 2:45pm 7.4 Mbits/sec at 1:10

Thanks to everyone who chose us to watch the keynote! There are lots of great events going on every day on ScribbleLive thanks to our great community. Check out the recent coverage of nextMEDIA: Future of Digital Content, Graphing Social Patterns East 2008, and STC 2008.

Happy Liveblogging!

In preparation for the traffic, we’ve armored our servers with the Akamai Content Distribution Network, on top of our GoGrid cloud computing servers. For a bootstrap startup, that’s about as much muscle we can throw at it If there are any problems, we can throw another few servers online. “Morrrre power!”

If you’re visiting ScribbleLive for the first time this week, the WWDC08 aggregator page will be pulling in all the WWDC content from the site into one place, so if you’re looking for a jumping off point, check that out. From there, there are links to all the individual WWDC08 live events if you want to check them out in their entirety.

Hope everyone has fun at WWDC08 and happy liveblogging!

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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 the conference. It doesn’t live-update via Ajax yet but give me a few more hours to play with the code and it should be going UPDATE: The aggregate pages now live-update too! You can watch all the posts going into multiple events via those pages..

If you see us around the conference, come say hi

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 URLs should redirect you automatically. If they don’t, please let me know in the comments.

When you login, you will now have a “Profile” link at the top-right corner. It will take you to a page where you can change your name, select your sort order, and give you an overview of all your latest posts. FYI, an API to retrieve all that information programmatically is coming out soon.

Behind the scenes, we’ve tried to fix a few bugs and make the site perform even faster. Please have a poke around — or just keep using it if you are already — and drop me a line in the comments with any bugs, suggestions, etc. Thanks!

Happy scribbling!

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 the style of your site, but what do you think? Will this work for you? Please drop me a line in the comments with your feedback.

Oh, and don’t think I’ve given up on a really cool Wordpress integration feature. It just needs a little more testing before it’s released

I guarantee there’s definitely a little bit of TWiT in ScribbleLive. I was always thinking how great it would be to have a liveblog of all the links and videos mentioned in a TWiT-cast, and I built ScribbleLive around a lot of those ideas. We also tried to make the right decisions when it came to building a site that the web-community would embrace, by bringing together a lot of popular tools to do one thing and one thing well. We’re committed to a product roadmap that will make us an open product via an API, and are looking to work with other startups whenever possible. That cross-pollination of the web is a value I think we share with a lot of the TWiT community, and I hope that we’re able to bring something to the party

So thanks again to Amber for the callout and you’ll be seeing much more of us in the weeks to come!

Last year, the keynote on MacRumors drove over 200,000 simultaneous visitors to their site. We’re by no means that well known, but assuming everything goes great and we get Dugg or something, we could be looking at uniques in the six-digits. For our Ajax updates, that means tens of thousands of hits per second!

As we get closer to the keynote on June 9th, we’re going to scale up our grid servers, and supplement that with a CDN. Still waiting to see who we’re going to go with but we’ve got 8 business days to figure that out

I’ll be blogging our progress with our scaling over the next couple of weeks. If you have any suggestions or want to help out, drop me a line in the comments. Also, check out our new WWDC08 area on ScribbleLive. It’ll be pulling together all the liveblogs of people attending the conference. If you’re at the conference, we’d love you to try out ScribbleLive If you do, I’ll totally buy you a drink if you’re ever in Toronto!

Thank again to everyone who has tried out ScribbleLive since the TechCrunch story broke last week. It’s been great hearing all your comments.

Happy Liveblogging!

We are getting a huge wave of traffic as a result. I can’t login to our servers from the guest wifi at the mesh conference to see how things are going, but I’ll definitely throw a few more servers into the grid when I get home tonight

UPDATE @ 5:37pm: We also got cross-posted to the Washington Post. Servers are running at about 8% so we’re good so far *knock on wood*

ScribbleLive: Two Guys In Canada Launch Sweet Liveblogging Platform

Highlights of the first day were a guy from Joost saying there’s no way to get cheap bandwidth to stream video (umm…we did that at CTV), a guy unloading on Guin from CBC in the video session about putting ads inside CBC video distributed online, Ethan Kaplan explaining how the music industry is going to use the back catalogue to become profitable again (suuuuure, of course I’d had issues with him before ), and hearing how the TTC video cameras protect our privacy with an insane level of protection.

If you noticed a bunch of people intently typing on their Macbooks at mesh today, that was us liveblogging all the sessions on ScribbleLive. If you want the play-by-play of all the sessions, check them out below. We’ll be back liveblogging tomorrow so if you can’t be there, come join us online tomorrow!

• Keynote with Ethan Kaplan
• Keynote with Michael Geist
• 15 Minutes of Fame
• Video is Everywhere
• The New Front Page
• Private vs. Public
• Where’s the Business in Show Business - Music and the Web

ScribbleLive has lots of new features, is easier on the eyes, and is way more stable. Thanks for everyone who participated in the Alpha and hope you like the new Beta even more

What an example this weekend was of how essential the TTC is for the City of Toronto. I doubted I would see a difference this weekend without the streetcars running, since there’s nowhere near the traffic of a workday. But look at these pictures of King St. West today: gridlock. I was down by BMO Field on Saturday during a soccer/football game, and there were cars parked everywhere!

So the government was definitely right that, for this city, transit is an essential service. Until we get those transporter-pads working, let’s keep those buses running

I signed up for the Developer Alpha, so hopefully I get in to have a look sometime soon. From their docs, it looks like it’s running on Javascript so I’m curious how one goes about creating an app (without being able to p0wn the whole O/S). But slick Alpha site at least

Or you can just set-up your own video site in 10 steps on Debian, but it’s really your option. Wow, broadband video is commonplace now