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Another Apple Event Sends Traffic Soaring on ScribbleLive

Jonathan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:48:59 +0000

Every Apple announcement gets more and more busy around here, and today wasn’t any exception. The fun all started at 1pm EST as thousands of Apple fanboys and fangirls started hitting our dozens of liveblogs to see what Steve Jobs was going to announce. We had everybody from TechCrunch to Reuters liveblogging from the event.

At our peak we were serving thousands of hits per second across our three CDN providers and Amazon cloud-based infrastructure. For the first time, we had hundreds of people following along through ScribbleLive Mobile on their iPhone as well as online.

Thank you to everyone who joined us today and happy liveblogging!

Jonathan Keebler
CTO/Founder

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Heatmap of Apple iPad Launch liveblogs

Jonathan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:04:27 +0000

With the launch of our new mobile app, we’re doing more and more with the geospatial data we receive. For example, here’s a heatmap of where all the posts came from on ScribbleLive during Apple iPad Launch today. Really great to see all the international traffic! Look for a range of new geo-aware features coming down the road

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Remembrance

Jonathan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:11:29 +0000

The Rifles are an (elastic) band

Jonathan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:55:29 +0000

I have listened to The Rifles 176 times according to my musical spies at Last.fm, and I just realized I really know nothing about the band. So instead of spending literally dozens of seconds researching them before writing a blog entry, I am going to simply state some simple facts I know:

they have accents. I’m going to guess they are from New Zealand

That is all.

Get down with the party kitty

Jonathan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:39:56 +0000

I’m not sure where this random German dude on Last.fm got this cat, but I’m totally rocking out with him while I listen to a most excellent playlist. And yes, it was very difficult to not make a joke about a vag1na.

“Taco Party” is the opposite o… “Taco Party” is the opposite of “Sausage Party” #themoreyouknow ...
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ScribbleLive in the Financial Post

Jonathan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:16:31 +0000

ScribbleLive in the Financial Post today – “Tech Pitch With A Payout”

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Coolest water cooler ever

Jonathan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:14:07 +0000

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Chili con carnie

Jonathan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:10:34 +0000

“One chili con carnie, please”

(by B = still working on a good pseudonym)

Innovative new look for CTV.ca

Jonathan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:29:15 +0000

Wow, CTV.ca has really gone in a new direction with their home page. Look how much information they are able to fit on a single page. That really is a timesaver when it comes to navigation. I even see a few full articles on there. It looks like they are going for some sort of 3D effect too, by layering content on top of other content.

Time will tell if the public embraces this new innovative look, but one thing’s for certain, this definitely reflects the spirit of that company.

Crisp Fall night

Jonathan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:42:38 +0000

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R.I.P. MuchMusic

Jonathan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:26:47 +0000

As if you needed further proof that the old MuchMusic is dead — as well as being completely subverted by CTVglobemedia’s MTV-obsessed programming — there’s something in these quotes from Much’s new general manager that suggests a disregard for the music brand that helped define the music scene of the 80s and 90s. I think the Toronto Star has it right in its article: MuchMusic shows its age.

“We will be doing absolutely nothing for the 25th anniversary,” says Brad Schwartz, senior vice-president and general manager of Much MTV Group. “Our core audience (the millennial demographic, with a skew to 18-year-olds) doesn’t care that we’re 25. It’s not news to them, only to the press and people who are no longer our audience.”
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It’s just business, Schwartz asserts, and MuchMusic’s doing good business without its former raison d’être…

(photo by Shky)

The Phoenix Rises (or other appropriate funny title)

Jonathan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:43:30 +0000

These days I listen almost exclusively to last.fm radio at work which has been quietly suggesting tracks it thinks I would like for the past few months. Today I was rocking out when I finally looked at the name of the band: Phoenix. I looked them up on my chart and without me even knowing their name, they’ve steadily climbed up to one of my top spots. I literally cannot sit still when I hear ‘Armistice’ come on, and by not sitting still I mean I bop in my chair. My chair doesn’t have a lot of spring-action, so it really is harder than you think. Either way, listen to this track and thank me when you break your chair

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Automatically Ingest Images

Jonathan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:35:04 +0000

Live blogging is a lot more fun with images to match. That’s why we have made the ingestion of images into your event as easy as it comes. No asset manager to complicate things; just some great logic.

To begin with, if you paste a URL to an image into the writer post box, it will automatically grab that image and post it into your live blog. This works with many standard file formats.

Next, if you are using our Twitter integration to follow users or to scan for keywords, once you post or approve a tweet that contains an image URL like twitpic.com, yfrog.com, or flic.kr, we post the image (not just a link to it). This is a useful way to show the complete story around an exciting event. Imagine, at the end of the day you will have an archive of all the content, comments, tweets and images all in one place.

If you were an enterprise client, all this would be wrapped inside a fully branded site where all the content could be found by search engines and you could monetize the page views. Trying doing that on Twitter or with other live blogging competitive tools!

If that’s still not enough, why not link a Flickr account to your live event? It’s simple to do! Under the “Post to this Event” you will find the Flickr setup. Just choose the account you want to monitor (make sure you have permission though cuz it’s not cool to steal someone’s photo stream) and presto, your Flickr photos will start streaming into your live blog. Happy Live Blogging!

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Comment from Email to any Live Event

Jonathan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:26:50 +0000

Now it’s even easier to comment from any device. With our short email addresses for every live blog, you can send text, images, audio and video files and see them appear in the live event in no time at all. Providing your moderator approves.

If you’re a writer and you want to reach out to all those watchers on mobile devices, send out this short email address and watch the comments pour in. It’s available to all under the Options tab in the right column of the live blog. Live blogging just keeps getting better and better using ScribbleLive, a live publishing platform. Happy live blogging!

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New Advanced Moderator Screen

Jonathan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:16:19 +0000

In respose to our live blogging power users, we are rolling out a great new feature we’re calling the Advanced Moderator Screen. It splits our default two column writer interface into four columns with your live blog on the left, followed by an entire column for your comments in moderation, followed by an entire column of twitter search results, followed by the usual sidebar on the right. You can view up to 1000 comments in moderation and tweets coming in in real-time. That’s a huge amount of information just waiting to be added to your live blog instantly.

Access the new Advanced Moderator Screen by clicking “Moderator View” in the “Advanced View” section in the side bar.

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Jeff Goldblum, 57, NOT Dead

Jonathan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:05:48 +0000

9:03 PM Jonathan Keebler - In a sad day in the entertainment world, another celebrity died today: actor, Jeff Goldblum.
9:05 PM Jonathan Keebler -
9:06 PM Jonathan Keebler - Officials say the actor fell more than 60 feet to his death on the Kauri Cliffs while on-set. source
9:06 PM idiotbanter - He apparently fell 60 feet while filming a movie in New Zealand.
9:07 PM idiotbanter - None of the articles I can find are from credible sources and most of them have gone down to heavy traffic.
9:07 PM BarrSpin - Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, King of Pop dead. Harrison Ford rumored missing and Jeff Goldblum dead too. In 2 days. Crazy shit right now.
9:07 PM Shysmiler75 - Is it true about Jeff Goldblum or is that a hoax?!?!
9:07 PM alicepsycho - RUMOR CONTROL — There are rumors spreading that Jeff Goldblum has died. This is not true. (via @soshollywood) – NÃO É VERDADE! *—-*
9:09 PM garymckeown - This is probably the source of the Jeff Goldblum ‘death’ rumour: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/tomhanks.asp #jeffgoldblum
9:10 PM MattDear - Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford are alive.
9:10 PM mrskutcher - My view of the camera on a crane! http://twitpic.com/8ek75
9:10 PM mrskutcher - that is horrible RT @KatAragon: it was a horrible hoax site mentioning the death of Jeff Goldblum They say ths 2 drive traffic :/
9:11 PM KatAragon - @Jules_Ann I’m hearing this site is a scam and cant be believed unless other sources say so. Disregard the Jeff Goldblum news *sigh*
9:13 PM jasondblake - The Jeff Goldblum death seems to just be a rumor.
9:13 PM KevinSpacey - Jeff Goldblum is alive and well. I just spoke to his manager. Stop these stupid rumors.
9:13 PM Jonathan Keebler - I believe Kevin Spacey, so I’m putting this rumour to bed. Jeff Goldblum is alive and well. The original source of the rumour appeared to be this site jeff.goldblum.mediafetcher.com

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Funny sign

Jonathan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:38:55 +0000

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VIDEO: New Image Uploading Features

Jonathan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:09:09 +0000

Here’s a great new video Matt put together that shows off our new image uploading features. Basically, it’s easy. Really easy. SUPER easy.

As well as uploading multiple images from your harddrive at the same time, you can now post URLs of images (ending in .JPG, .GIF, or .PNG) and we’ll suck them right in for you. You can also put in Flickr, Twitpic or YFrog page URLs, and we’ll pull in the images too.

Let us know what you think! Happy liveblogging!

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You know it’s time to get out more…

Jonathan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:33:59 +0000

I’ve been having “fun” today throwing all my personal finances into Quicken Online today (mini review: pretty cool FREE piece of software). But I think it’s a sure sign that I need to stop building software and get out of the house when my entertainment budget has been $58 over the last 3 months. And yes, that is after correctly categorizing everything. However, I do find riding a horse twice a week entertaining, and that is one of those bigger pies, so maybe it’s not so bad after all

UPDATE: Yes it is.

Black Pearl: biggest asshat in ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ history

Jonathan — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:28:43 +0000

I just rewatched the episode of ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ where Gordon Ramsay tried to help the Black Pearl restaurant (a lobster restaurant in downtown NYC). One of the three owners, David, has to be the biggest asshat I’ve ever seen on ‘Kitchen Nightmares.’ I find, in general, the American version of the show is edited to show more drama than the UK version, but I don’t think it was clever editing in this case. It was hilarious to watch David on-camera talk about how much he hates the new food, then tell Ramsay he thinks it’s great. I was glad to hear they went out of business shortly after the show aired.

But the drama didn’t end there. Check out what is posted on the official website of the (now closed) Black Pearl Restaurant:

NEWS!
As it turns out, Gordon Ramsay is allegedly a philandering hypocrite. Maybe he’ll rot in hell, where he belongs!
…
Thank you to our friends and family for your support during the past four years, and thank you, God, for exposing this asswipe!

Even if you dislike Gordon Ramsay, what kind of thing is that to post on your official company website?! I hope Ramsay is laughing at them from his mountain of money somewhere, with his beautiful family, eating a fine lobster meal.

(source)

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