Posts Tagged ‘liveblog’
Earth Hour 2009 LIVEBLOG
Saturday, March 28th, 2009ScribbleLive Launches New Look, New Features
Sunday, January 11th, 2009There’s nothing like a MacWorld in the world of liveblogging. I often tell people that it’s the quintessential example of liveblogging. This January, we wanted to have something special for the users of ScribbleLive. We’ve been working on a major redesign for weeks, and this week we officially go live. This launch brings, not only a new look, but a new set of features and service enhancements.
The first thing you’ll notice is the look-and-feel. Since liveblogs are all about reading, we’ve made everything on our site as easy to read as possible; big, clean fonts everywhere on soft backgrounds. There’s nothing like 80px fonts to enhance readability 
There’s also much more sliding using the script.aculo.us library.
We’ve been trying to get a Twitter integration that makes sense for months, and I think we have it now. Not only do we make it really easy to “follow” a Twitter account and pull all their tweets into your liveblog, but we have a new Twitter live-search that will constantly check Twitter for anyone talking about your topic. The tweets will appear right in the sidebar where you can easily pull them in as comments. This provides a never-ending stream of comments for your events. Here’s a video walkthrough of using Twitter in your liveblogs. And of course, you can login to ScribbleLive with your Twitter account.
Another great feature we now have are “sticky” posts. During your liveblog you can click the “stick” button next to any post to pin it at the top of your liveblog. It’s a great way to keep a score or video stream where everyone can see it, or just use it as promotion for your site. We can’t wait to see how people use it and look forward to your feedback. This video walkthrough also shows you how to use sticky posts.
We now support any Flash embed. Just copy-paste the HTML for your embed directly into the input box and we’ll take care of posting it. We always supported YouTube but now you can embed videos from Ustream, Qik, or any other Flash widget. You can even write your own and embed them!
As well as the features you can see, there’s several big changes under-the-hood. We completely changed how live-updates work to use the power of the Amazon cloud products to handle more watchers than ever before. On Tuesday we successfully served up over 11M hits without any performance impact. We don’t just want to be the flashiest live publishing platform out there, we also want to have the most horsepower.
There are many more changes with this launch and the best way to see them all is to try us out! Thanks to everyone who sent us suggestions and please keep them coming. We love to hear what you think.
Happy liveblogging!
berlineblase.de builds liveblogging console for Le Web ‘08
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Wow, I’m really impressed by what the berlineblase.de guys have built to cover Le Web ‘08 today. They put the ScribbleLive embed alongside the video stream of the event. It looks great and they have some great running commentary of the event.
Nice job guys! It’s great to see ScribbleLive taking on more of a roll as a platform for liveblogging, a focus we will continue to develop this month with the launch of our whitelabel product and a major redesign. Happy liveblogging!
The Score launches new liveblogs powered by ScribbleLive
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Today 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!
Obama: To the rest of the world: “Our stories are singular but our destinies are shared”
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Tonight, we witnessed a historic moment in world history. We liveblogged every second of it on ScribbleLive and it truly was the amazing turn in American politics that so many people hoped it would be. Congratulations to America for having the courage to set forth on a new path into the 21st century!
See how many people are watching your liveblog!
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008With 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!
The Office ‘Crime Aid’ Oct. 23, 2008 LIVEBLOG
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008- 9:05 PM Michael and Holly are dating now
- 9:06 PM Angela gave out save the dates for her wedding. Dwight starts carving a knife with a knife: "You got a better way"
- 9:07 PM Michael and Holly start making out in the elevator. Awww, they are so cute.
- 9:08 PM
- 9:09 PM It’s the next day and there are police cruisers outside the office. Someone broke in and robbed the place
- 9:09 PM "I am susceptable to surges"
- 9:10 PM Michael and Holly might have left the office door unlocked when they were fooling around
- 9:11 PM Pam left a drunken message on Jim’s phone
- 9:12 PM Dwight asks Phyllis for advice. She tells him to give Angela an ultimatum
- 9:12 PM Michael decides to have a charity auction called "Crime Aid"
- 9:12 PM Michael: "We’ll auction off people like the olden days". [cut to Stanley]
- 9:13 PM Michael is auctioning Bruce Springstein tickets
- 9:13 PM Holly: "He knows how to get things. He got me" Michael: "Twice
- 9:14 PM C.R.I.M.E.-A.I.D.
- 9:14 PM "there is no Wikipedia entry for office-robbery statistics"
- 9:15 PM Auction items:
- 9:15 PM #1 Yoga lesson from Holly
- 9:16 PM "It squeaks when you bang it. That’s what she said"
- 9:16 PM "The boys in the hood in the warehouse"
- 9:17 PM #2 Go out for a drink with the boys from teh warehouse right now
- 9:17 PM #3 Creed. "Yah, that’s all inclusive"
- 9:17 PM Jim runs into Roy at the bar
- 9:17 PM Awwwwwwwwwkward
- 9:17 PM #4 Kevin will do your taxes
- 9:18 PM Security guy playing the blues = painful
- 9:18 PM Awww, Dwight is waiting to hear if Angela will choose him
- 9:19 PM This show is totally becoming more drama than comedy, but it’s still awesome!
- 9:21 PM Is the old Tic-Tac girl back in their commercials? Nice! (she’s hot)
- 9:22 PM Found a link to the Tic-Tac girl…but I’m off topic
- 9:22 PM #5 Weekend at Martha’s Vineyard
- 9:23 PM
Phyllis: "I think we all deserve to be with someone who wants to be with us". - 9:23 PM Dwight: "I’ll tell you what Phyllis did wrong. She stuck her nose in my business and tried to help me"
- 9:24 PM Jim and Pam’s ex drinking together. I don’t think Jim’s alltogether alright with Pam spending so much time with her friends
- 9:25 PM #6 Two tickets to Mr. Bruce Springstein…but they were "stolen"
- 9:25 PM #7 Phyllis’ hug
- 9:26 PM Sold for $1,000 to her husband after Dwight kept upping the bidding by one penny = classic
- 9:27 PM Jim decides to turn back and not go check on Pam. "I’m not that guy and we’re not that couple"
- 9:28 PM LOL Have you seen this new ad with the guy with hose-like water spewing from his armpits?
- 9:29 PM Not much happened in this episode, but still good
- 9:30 PM Holly: "A lot of Michael seems to good to be true…but yah, those tickets really seemed too good to be true"
- 9:30 PM DAMN! The head corporate guy saw Holly and Michael kidding. Shit!
- 9:30 PM THE END
Avatars for crossposted liveblogs
Sunday, October 12th, 2008Now 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:
- Follow the steps to create a liveblog on ScribbleLive and crosspost it to your blog
- Open your Wordpress admin area and edit the post that was created in step #1
- 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>
- Make note of the numerical number — your liveblog id — that appears throughout. In the example above, the number is 1234.
- 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" /> - That’s it, you’re done!
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? 
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
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!
