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March 14th, 2008

CoverItLive raises the bar on live blogging with killer new features

As I arrived in Vancouver on Wednesday, I got an email from Keith of CoverItLive giving me a heads up on some new features that are now live…and these features rock!
If you’re a CIL user you might have received the email from Keith, but if you didn’t here are the new features:
New Features:

Quick Launch:  […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 3rd, 2008

Canadian companies in the Webware 100

Checking out the list of the Webware 100 Finalist list I noticed several familiar names…
ConceptShareProductivity
CoverItLivePublishing & Photography
Dabble DBProductivity
FlickrPublishing & Photography
FlockBrowsing
MobivoxCommunication
StumbleUponSocial
WordPressPublishing & Photography
Source: All the Webware 100 finalists in one place | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

Okay I know that Flickr, Flock, StumbleUpon, and WordPress aren’t Canadian per se, but Flickr and SU were […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

February 7th, 2008

Expanding uses for CoverItLive

While I was a CoverItLive skeptic, I was totally won over at DEMO.  Rafe Needleman is taking CoverItLive to another level with a weekly live blogging “ask the editor” chat:
Ask the Editors is a live text show. You ask, and I answer (or fake it). Tune in on Thursday to ask me about Web applications. […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

January 29th, 2008

In the press room at DEMO08 Live!

Why?  Because I don’t want to test CoverItLive for the first time in a session!

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January 28th, 2008

Greetings from DEMO08!

Wow, what a journey to get here.  Now, I didn’t have the roller coaster flight in that the folks from San Fran did (I’ve been hearing stories all night), but I had my own struggles.
Regardless the DEMO08 mixer was tonight and it was great re-connecting with my usual peeps here.
Tomorrow the real fun begins.  Okay […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment