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Ask HN: What's the best live blogging/etherpad-like service?

6 points by jasonmcalacanis ↗ HN
I've got a research team of three that makes live notes for me in a "ticker" (google doc) to inform my angel investing. They basically profile startups and product information for me, and from that I select startups to meet with it. I'd like to share the real-time ticker with the public, but Google Docs is a just a dog when you invite more than 25 people to it. I'm wondering if there is a live blogging style platform out there that can handle like 10,000 folks watching my researchers type. Thoughts? Etherpad wasn't stable enough sadly.

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philipes
Scribble Live
jasonmcalacanis
doesn't seem to work for this function. I need something really lightweight. i think i might have to build it. If there's a developer out there who wants to work on a live ticker CMS with me please ping me jason AT calacanis.com
andrewhillman
There are a bunch of extremely light weight blogging/cms engines built w/ node.js. I've seen a bunch on github like https://github.com/joehewitt/nerve/ Probably a good place to start if looking to build your own light weight solution.
kwadade
Hey Jason have you heard of Spoken Layer (spokenlayer.com)?
jasonmcalacanis
No, but I do think it's a very cool idea. Downloading the app right now from iTunes.
howradical
Check out hackpad.
jasonmcalacanis
we tested etherpad, which hackpad is built on (and google docs is) and it's just not super stable if you have 50+ folks on it.
howradical
I've spoken with the founders and from what I understand they basically gutted and rewrote Etherpad. It's been used at both Pycon and SXSW which I'm assuming was pretty heavy load.
jasonmcalacanis
It's great for 10 folks, but I need a 10,000 person solution. sigh, i guess i need to build it.
orph
hackpad op here. give me a ping, i think we can support you.
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