Rafe Needleman over at WebWare has a post on a new liveblogging service called CoverItLive. It’s a pretty smart service as anyone who has tried to liveblog an event knows. It provides you with an embed-able widget for your blog and then you use their interface to liveblog the event. It time-stamps the entries for you and then users of your blog can scroll through the event log to see what you had (or have) to say. My first thought was that this would be a really cool AIR application. Then I thought about it. If you’re liveblogging something, you’re probably connected to the internet, so what value does a desktop application get you?
One thought is combining a desktop version with something like LiveCycle DS that could synchronize posts for you if you are in a location with spotty wireless. You can liveblog away on the desktop application and whenever you get a bit of connectivity it pushes it up to the server for you. But then you’re not really liveblogging. At the end of his post Rafe does mention that people wanting to host all their own content could use a downloadable version of the application. To me, that’s the real value of AIR. With very little in the way of code changes the CoverItLive team could port the application over to Adobe AIR and provide both the web version plus a cross-platform desktop version. They might even be able to add the AIR application to some kind of premium package.
What do you think?
[tags]Adobe AIR, CoverItLive, Liveblogging[/tags]
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