Comparing CoverItLive and ScribbleLive for liveblogging

Richard asked me on Twitter how does ScribbleLive compare to Cover It Live and what my opinion of both tools is. I have a really hard time comparing two tools that I enjoy thoroughly and whose creators both have been in personal contact with me via e-mail and over Twitter. I am a big supporter of Canadian enterpreneurs and therefore will not choose one over the other. My intention is to continue undertaking liveblogs with both tools and testing them thoroughly and offer my feedback.

As it happens with anything, I got very used to Cover It Live at the beginning simply because it was the first tool I tested. I like the fact that Cover It Live gives me an iFrame to insert. This past week was the first time that I had tested ScribbleLive and I had a few glitches (that I have to say, the folks of SL were there to help me with as my liveblog went by). I know that both tools allow for importing Twitter feeds, although I frankly like the SL presentation better than the CiL display of Twitter feeds.

TechVibes compared SL and CiL recently, but I’m not sure if they’ve tested the tools. However, I do know that both Rebecca and I have tested both tools. (Update – Via Twitter Rebecca just confirmed that Canucks Fan Zone uses CiL for liveblogs). I know that AgendaCamp Waterloo is using SL for their liveblogging

Bottom line – for me, both tools are useful and I plan to use them both on different occasions and seeing how things go. I believe in co-opetition (if you need to know the background, read the Brandenburger book). At any rate, I think both tools are very useful and look forward to using them further down the road.

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March 29th, 2009 in geekifying myself, liveblogging | tags: , , , ,

Comments (1)

raincoasterMarch 30th, 2009 at 1:09 am

Because of the frames, I won’t be able to use either of them in most of my blogs, since they’re on Wordpress.com and iframes are stripped out. I wish there were a WP.com-compatible format.

Oops, spoke too soon. Double-checking, I see there IS a way to use CoverItLive on Wordpress.com, although it has the disadvantage of opening a new window, rather than being right in the post.
http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=195

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