Mouse Writing!

What do you call digital handwriting done with a mouse on computer (instead of a pen on pad) - Mouse writing?
This is a screen shot of the skrbl home page this afternoon.

I guess it takes effort, but you can scribble legibly with mice (a tablet is much better though). Now if only the system could read... sigh!

my skrbl page

Publish your skrbl sessions for the World to see.

Creating a webpage has never been easier, draw, design, doodle... skrbl what you want to show the world, hit the publish button, give your page a friendly name... Voila! Done. The skrbl whiteboard is published as a web page that anyone can see. Use skrbl to create cool pages, layout content as you please, draw freehand et al and show off your creativity to the World. The FAQ has more info if you need it.

We still have some work to do, next will be to provide tools to organize your published pages and showcase them to the World.

So go ahead, sketch a grand plan, chart a roadmap, layout your manifesto, pencil a cartoon... impress the World. If you can use a mouse, you can create your skrbl page, so go ahead, claim your piece of the Web today.

skrbl Art

Here's a picture I saw on Myspace describing the scene from the snickers jingle -

"Happy peanuts soar..
Over chocolate covered mountaintops and waterfalls of caramel..
prancing nougat in the middle,
sings a song of satisfaction tooooo the wooooooorld."



Good fun, a literal rendition of the words complete with happy flying peanuts, a lump of nougat and 'The World' sitting coyly at the side listening. Here it is in all its full size technicolor glory.

Hows that for a new skrbl use case!!! Me likes.

So easy even a 4 year old can skrbl

My niece is the youngest skrbl user I know of.
Basically she likes sitting in front of the computer drawing 'pictures'. Happy with her creations and eager to show off 'artwork'.
Seeing her in action one day I had a brilliant idea, "If she thinks this is cool, how amazed will she be when I skrbl on her drawings over the web?" I thought I'd impress her by magically changing her drawing right in front of her eyes.

sigh!!!

Skipping over the unnecessary details (it is deflating to admit defeat to a 4 year old), here is the moral of the story.

Life lesson - never mess with an artist's work (no matter how gentle, young, small and defenceless the artist seems).