http://www.keebler.net/blog Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:46:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/07/01/sandy-at-the-beach/ 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/06/22/scribblelive-now-has-on-the-fly-translation/ This can't be for real, can it? :) http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/06/16/kevin-cos/ 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/06/10/wwdc-keynote-liveblog-stats/ 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/06/09/wwdc08-starts-today-on-scribblelive/ 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/06/07/nextmedia-the-future-of-digital-content-all-this-weekend/ 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.keebler.net/blog/2008/06/01/permalinks-profiles-and-more-power-scribblelive-new-features/ 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/29/embed-scribblelive-liveblogs-on-your-own-site/ 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/28/scribblelive-on-netnight/ 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. ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/26/were-going-to-do-wwdc08without-crashingprobably/ I don't think Bark Busters is going to work for my dog :) http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/24/sandy-vs-bark-busters/ Wow, ScribbleLive made the home page of TechCrunch today. Nice! 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/22/scribblelive-is-on-techcrunch/ We met Erick from Techcrunch today at mesh, and we got into CrunchBase! Thanks guys! CrunchBase InformationScribbleLiveInformation provided by CrunchBase http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/22/scribblelive-is-on-crunchbase/ Day 1 of the mesh conference is a wrap...well, I'm sure a bunch of people are still out at the party ;) 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 ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/21/mesh-2008-conference-day-1/ I'm at mesh today, liveblogging the whole event. In honour of the event, we are unveiling the Beta of our liveblogging site formerly called ShiftEdit: ScribbleLive. ScribbleLive has lots of new features, is easier on the eyes, and is way more stable. Thanks for everyone who participated in the ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/21/shiftedit-is-now-scribblelive/ http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/05/03/ugly-pillows-at-sears/ Was Typing class in school so much fun that you want to go back and relive it? Do you have an unhealthy obsession with keyboards? Do you like competing at everyday, normal tasks? If any of these apply, now you can compete online against random people at ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/04/28/typeracer-typing-racing/ The Toronto Transit Commission was on strike this weekend. Not to get into the politics of it, but they have now been declared an essential service by the Ontario government and directed back to work. What an example this weekend was of how essential the TTC is for the City ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/04/27/a-weekend-without-the-ttc-in-toronto/ In the never-ending stream of people launching web operating systems while everyone waits for Google O/S and Windows Cloud, comes Cloudo. As well as having one of the funnier names, it seems (it's on private alpha at the moment) to boast some neat features. You can make the ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/04/27/cloudo-cloud-computing-cloud/ In my aimless Internet-wanderings today, I ran across Start Your Tube. Want to start your own YouTube for your dancing sheep videos? That's now an option...and with revenue sharing to boot :) w00t. Or you can just set-up your own video site in 10 steps on Debian, but ... http://www.keebler.net/blog/2008/04/27/start-your-own-tube/