LivePage™ and LiveArticle™
Unlike a widget, our LivePage™ and LiveArticle™ technologies generate real HTML pages that can integrate the look and feel of your brand with your revenue model. Having real pages means they can be fully indexed for global search engine optimization.
Instant News, Always
Post and edit breaking news, live events and user-generated content instantly and flawlessly. With the control of a CMS, you have full editorial power of your real-time content.
Fast and Easy to Use
Just when you think you have to learn another web application – you don't. ScribbleLive is exceptionally fast and easy to use making it highly adoptable within your organization.
Twitter Integration
With an advanced filtering system, you'll easily pull in popular tweets and hash tags while staying relevant and on topic.
Internal Syndication
Broadcasting live content across all your web properties has never been easier. Your brand will be the source of news now, everywhere.
Usability
- Secure writer interface (SSL)
- All posts from the web or mobile devices are sent over SSL for privacy control.
- Instant updates
- No need to refresh your browser. As an event unfolds, updates appear instantly from newest to oldest.
- Browser friendly
- Because we're based on web standards, we're compatible with all the popular web browsers.
- Start/Stop times for event
- Set your event to go live at any time. A countdown clock will be visible to let everyone know your schedule.
- Easy to post
- The second you hit enter, your post is visible to all viewers. There’s absolutely no delay.
- No character limits
- Unlike other live blogging sites or applications like Twitter, we have no character limit to our posts.
- Add links to your posts
- Simply add your link to your post, right in line with the comment, and the text will instantly become a link.
- Sticky posts
- A post can be "pinned" near the top of an event to enhance visibility and prevent it from being buried by newer posts. You can pin as many as you like and they can be text, images, videos, live feeds or any other embedded file.
- Send invite codes
- With our unique invite codes you can invite your friends and colleagues to post with you, comment or just watch.
- Language support
- Along with on-the-fly translation we also accept date and time formats and soon our new interface will be offered in multiple languages.
- User permissions
- The permission page allows you to set-up and manage all your users and assign them roles like editor, moderator or writer.
- Multiple event interfaces
- Choose additional interfaces so you can set yourself up for live events that are tailored to Q&A, audience engagement or Twitter live search and content ingestion.
- Desktop notifier
- Our Desktop Notifier lets you keep up with any live event leaving you free to surf and work. Built on the Adobe AIR platform to ensure it's compatible with Macs and PCs.
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Integration
- Upload images
- We accept JPEG, GIF or PNG image file types and they will be automatically scaled. Simply post the URL of an image in the comment box and it will instantly appear, or grab one or more images from your desktop and a progress indicator will be visible to you while you post them.
- Audio & video uploading
- Upload any standard audio or video file and it will be trans-coded on-the-fly and posted in seconds to your live stream. Great for quick shots or sound bytes from a live event.
- Web cam recording
- Use your web cam to record a quick message for your watchers and post effortlessly.
- Video comments
- Allow watchers to use their web cams to record comments for your live event. See them instantly appear in the stream. (Additional fee)
- Video embeds
- Copy and paste a link or embed code from Brightcove, Break, Revver, YouTube or your favorite video site.
- Flash embeds
- If you have a flash video or poll, simply paste the code into your event and it'll appear as it would in the site it came from.
- Media captioning
- Simply roll over your images and media to caption your content with proper accreditation.
- Post via email
- Use the event email address to post text, images and video from any email application or website.
- Twitter integration
- Follow those important Twitter accounts with a quick click. Or use a search box to find any tweets with your key word and a list will appear, enabling you to post them to your live stream. We even resolve the most popular Twitter image URL's for you and pull in the full image as you post. Or sign up for our Twitter smart search and filtering engine to capture the most relevant Tweets while reducing the noise. (Additional fee)
- Flickr images
- Any images you post to your public Flickr feed will appear in your live stream seconds later.
- Customized embed
- Copy the event embed and you can have the ScribbleLive experience on your web site in seconds. You have control of the background colour, the text font, size and colour for your content, comments, and meta data, link and divider line colour and style, avatars on or off and the size of your embed. At the bottom of the embed, your watchers will be able to control sound, turn off user comments to reduce the posts to authors only, access help, change font size, RSS, translate languages and launch the Desktop Notifier Application.
- RSS
- You can stay informed of any or all of our events with an RSS feed.
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Social
- Social network login for comments
- By using your existing Social Network accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, MySpace and Google) we have made it simple and safe to login.
- Anonymous comments
- Retain anonymity by choosing a name and an avatar while commenting.
- Approved commenter
- Give special privileges to a select few by allowing them ‘authorized commenter’ status during a live stream.
- Comments via email
- If email is your preferred way of communication, set-up a custom comment email address for your event.
- Unlimited writers or watchers
- There's no limit to the number of people that can watch your live event or the number of people you invite to write along with you.
- Edit posts and comments instantly
- As soon as you hit enter, you can edit right on the web page without the need for any special administration back end. Simply click and edit.
- Moderate comments
- All comments appear for you and your writers to moderate. You can edit the comment before posting, invite the commenter to become a full participant or ban them from the event.
- Ban users
- Even with moderation turned on sometimes there are people who just won’t go away. Ban them by event, or globally from all events or even by their IP, if they keep changing their login credentials.
- Profanity filter
- We have different levels of filtering depending on what you think is acceptable.
- Spam protection
- When you enter information in the comment box, we run that data through Akismet to ensure spammers aren't filling your event with trackback pings or spam.
- Avatar support
- Upload your favourite image or login through your Twitter or Facebook account and we’ll use your existing avatar.
- Sharing
- Share just a post or the event URL with your favorite social networks. We will even shorten the URL for you.
- Real-time audience metrics
- See how many people are watching your live event right now and keep track of how many live watchers you've had, number of posts, and number of comments, all in real-time.
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