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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

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

HOWTO: Liveblogging in Wordpress using ScribbleLive

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

With lots of websites starting to use the crossposting feature on ScribbleLive that we unveiled back in August, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a quick demo video. In this screencast, I go over all the steps to get your liveblog crossposting to your Wordpress site without using an iframe or other embed code.

Please feel free to drop in other questions in the comments, and I’d be happy to write you back. Happy liveblogging! :)