UPDATED – Livescribe Pencasts Now Playing Everywhere

Posted on 05 May 2009 by


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UPDATE- THE SYSTEM IS LIVE AND WE’VE ADDED AN EXAMPLE!!

Okay, I promise that my Livescribe obsession will end… I’m not sure when but it will end some day. THAT day, however, is not this day. This day I have some exciting news for old, new and soon to be Livescribe  users.

The good folks at Livescribe reached out to us last week, and shared the news that as of today,  Tuesday, May 5, Livescribe users will be able to embed “pencasts” directly into any Web site or blog just the way you embed a YouTube video. Prior to today pencasts could only be viewed on Livescribe’s Online Community (as displayed in the above video); now they can go everywhere.

Livescribe explains-

Pencasts are created when using the Pulse smartpen and appear as Flash animations that play back your handwriting and audio online. This enhancement makes sharing information even easier for consumers and has been the number one request of Livescribe’s customer base. As a blogger, this means you can post notes/audio from interviews or enhance podcasts with a more visual pencast. As an educator this means you can share your pencasts with students on a class Web page or Wiki.

So is this a big deal? I think so. Since its launch in April 2008, Livescribe pencasts have been viewed by more than 1.5 million people. Now that the Livescribe desktop is available to Mac-users and the technology is gaining new evangalists (like ME!), the device is rapidly gaining momentum. This will only help to fuel that growth which, as Livescribe put it in the release, they expect to “… grow exponentially with the ability to embed pencasts in any site.”

We’ll have an example up just as soon as the service goes live later today!

The system is up. Now when you look at a Pencast there is an esxample in the desktop to either add to Facebook or embed the HTML into any site.

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Here is what is looks like…

Gear Diary Pencast
brought to you by Livescribe

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen

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  • thehotrod

    Cool, Dan. I can’t wait till I get mine.

    BTW your penmanship looks as neat as mine. ;)

  • Dan Cohen

    OUCH!!
    I…I…I… represent that.

    Yeah it was bad as a kid and it’s been downhill since then.

  • thehotrod

    Just havin’ fun with you. Sometimes I can’t even read my own writing. 0:

    I had two meetings today, and I would have loved to have my Livescribe pen. I can’t wait until it gets here.

  • Lui-g

    You know, I think this is why I got the Livescribe – I often can;t read my own handwriting.

    Other than writing the very occasional cheque (took me 4 years to use up by 1900′s cheque book that I got in 1995), I mainly type, and that, of course is very neat.

    I use my pen to write memos whilst I’m on the phone, and then play back the recording so I can work out what i was writing from what I’m saying whilst doing it.

    Invaluable if you can’t read your own writing.