http://www.dipity.com/Shepherdess76/A_New_Forest_gallery/flip

but to embed it in our site I have to shrink it to 300 pixels wide, too small to see much.

Not sure how to solve this problem, except maybe with a big single picture that links to the gallery. Any thoughts?

So far today I have discovered that the search and archive don't work, we've got no control over our RSS feeds and we can't use any iframes wider than 320 pixels because of the mandatory content panels that run down the right of the page... which makes embedding dipity timelimes sort of a waste of time.

But we'll try it anyway...

I like the structure and options, but I will be careful with jugdement, I just started using Dipity. When you look at the design it reminds you of Plurk, yes, but...there are few alternative views avaialable (depending on content, I guess): timeline, flipbook (for visuals), list, map. You can zoom in and out on the timeline to see the trends. It's 'embedable' and 'share-able'. And most important, you can feed to Dipity from major social media sites:

This is how my profile looks like after adding few sources.

I will keep an eye on it. Looks like soon you will be able to send tweets from here too.

Dippity is about letting users follow updates from the people and topics they care about, and have fun doing it. (BK Gupta)

So what is Dipity - and what can you do with it? Dipity is a social feed aggregator; web and topic searching tool; topic/news updating service....and much more. Dipity allows the user to

• Follow friends and friends feeds (start by importing your twitter contacts)
• Search the web (Dipity will search the web for the most popular content - and keep you posted on new developments concerning the topic)
• Follow RSS feeds (drop your favorite RSS feed into your lifestream)
• Create and share your very own Dipity Channel

Dipity organizes updates from sites like YouTube, WordPress and Twitter as well as 7500 news sites into “channels” on an interactive timeline. Users create 'personal channels' (lifestreams) from popular social sites like Twitter, Pandora, or Flickr to broadcast updates to their friends, and can start a channel about anything from Aalborg to zygapophysis in just a few seconds.

Social interactivity has been transformed with the re-design. Simply sync your Twitter friends as Dipity friends to immediately start following feeds. Share the Dipity channel well as being able to follow friends, your dipity search channel has been made very easy to share. Twitter messaging is soon to be intergrated to enhance the medium of micro-blogging to the site.

View your followed topics and friends on a sliding timeline; as a Flipbook; in list format or on a world map - in full screen, browser view or as a widget.

Great stuff from the Dipity crew - enjoying my early interactions with the user interface and looking forward to twittering from the home page and really getting to grips with the enhanced features.

Early days in the review of this site - but I love it. Great interactivity, rapid and responsive timeline with great graphics and visual markers. The enhanced interface holds the user on course to explore their chosen topic, only to drift through pixelated threads to wash up on some far distant surfing shore…

Read more on the blog...

Dipity è un aggregatore sociale: registra i contenuti che gli utenti pubblicano su siti come YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Picasa, Wordpress, ma a differenza di FriendFeed e SocialThing! ogni singolo evento è rappresentato su una timeline da un rettangolino, facilmente espandibile al passaggio del mouse.
Questa visualizzazione permette di contestualizzare meglio gli eventi e di confrontare rapidamente le proprie attività con quelle dei propri amici / contatti.

Dipity è semplice da usare anche per chi non conosce servizi simili: basta abbinare ai siti supportati il nick con il quale ci si è registrati e l'applicazione importerà automaticamente i contenuti pubblicati in rete.

E' possibile anche monitorare determinati topic di discussione impostando le proprie preferenze nel menu "My Topics" e anche salvare le varie password utilizzate nei servizi abbinati.

Dipity e gli altri aggregatori sociali sono un ottimo strumento per non perdere la rotta e la propria identità nel mare dei servizi proposti dal web 2.0.

Bref,
et bien, vu sur le blog du moderateur, un récapitulatif des memes venu de chez Dipity

You can use Dipity to create and share interactive timelines about any subject or topic. It allows students to embed You Tube videos, Twitter, RSS feeds, Blogger, flickr, Picasa, Last FM, and more right into their timelines.

Dipity makes timelines relevant and fun for students and best of all, you are creating timelines in “their language” of Digital Native. The timelines are cool, unlike traditional paper/pencil timeline!

Though I have yet to try it out, Dipity has the potential to be huge if enough people catch theh viral bug and start sharing interactive timelines about the people and things they care about.

At the moment, I am a bit overwhelmed. Plurk itself is a huge time drainer for me; when you chat, it can get addictive and there are important things like updating the blog which goes unattended.

Anybody has tried Dipity and can shed more insight here? Does this network has the potential to take off?

Dipity.com is a service that lets you collate and share your online life by showing your personal timeline.

"Serendipity occurred for us in April of 2007 when three long time friends realized they'd all been imagining the same product. They quit their day jobs and in April of 2007 formed Underlying Inc. and started making Dipity." [Dipity]

Currently, you can add the following to your timeline:

• Photos: Flickr, Picasa
• Blogs: Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr
• Music: Last.fm, Pandora
• Videos: YouTube, Vimeo
• Other: Twitter, Yelp, FireEagle, Any RSS feed, Pownce

This is a nice service, giving you the opportunity to mash-up virtually all your online content into one neat timeline. For those curious, my timeline can be found [in this link].

Technorati : blog, dipity, location, music, photo, timeline, video

Dipity is a timeline tool that is web-based, free, and collaborative.  Each point on the timeline can include text, images, and streamed video.  It's easy to use and produces beautifully interactive timelines.  I don't need to tout the merits of building timelines to help students have a chronological frame of reference for events because you know that already.  But this web-based tool really takes it to the next level with interactive digital timelines that can have multiple contributors, images, videos, maps, and links to wikipedia articles (or any website for that matter) -- all wrapped up in an attractive easy to use interface.

In my search through the stored timelines, I found one about the conflict in Darfur.  Check it out because it's a perfect example of how powerful timelines especially when they're rich in media like this one.  With news videos, photos, and maps chronicling the events, the Darfur Conflict comes alive.  In the classroom, the ability to assign this as a collaborative project lets them work at school and at home.

Check it out and while you're add it, notice that they're getting ready to launch Dipity 2.0 which tracks your Twitter, Facebook, Blog, Flickr, and other web streams for a timeline of your digital footprint.  http://www.dipity.com

I like it for the following reasons;

1. It's so easy to use. Both to create content and to interact with. I've found it very intuitive.

2. Versatile. Video, pictures and text is easily interchangeable by manually adding content or you can simply plug in a RSS feed and let the content automatically update.

2. Controllable. Can set it to be one editor (i.e. the creator) who controls it or for multiple authors.

3. Easy to share. It integrates well with other platforms. I've embedded it into our templated work pages and sent the links below automatically to this blog.  

Just two imperfections I've encountered so far. 1. couldn't get the embed code to work on this blog. A twitter user recommends adding a word, any word, in between the tags to fix that. 2. Every page refresh, addition etc. adds up as a page view - good for the ego maybe but not reliable enough. Hoping these glitches will be sorted in the next promised release.

 I've created three timelines, called topics in the Dipity world, which you can see here: http://www.dipity.com/user/sarahhartley

One is fed from my food blog, one is fed by the mutiple users of the MEN Flickr picture group and the other is a mix of newspaper, television and transport authority content to track the progression of Manchester's proposed Congestion Charge scheme.

So far so good and I'm sure there'll be plenty more journalistic uses for it in the coming months.

I see that journalists on other newspapers are already well on with the use of this too. Below are great examples from Liverpool and Birmingham.

20/08: Diary of a day in the life of Liverpool

Gun and knife crime in the Birmingham area

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If you've been using this tool, please add to a link to your example below - we can build up a map of maps. A Dipity day.

Originally, Dipity's inbuilt Google map thing used a custom icon as a marker - a cheery little fellow with a smile and a flag.

I mentioned on a feedback site that this made it rather hard to use for a professional-type service, particularly about something as sombre as murder.

Within a few hours, the Dipity team had got back to me, agreed, and changed the icon to its current generic form. With this barrier removed, the timeline/map could go straight up on www.birminghampost.net, where it's happily residing now.

You can't imagine this happening with the latest MS release.

Thanks Dipity!

Dipity is incredibly easy to use and allows the aggregation of a number of sources ( news feeds, google searches, RSS feeds from blogs etc) into one timeline, as a flip book, a list or even as a google map. It provides a great and quick way to search through any topic, following the news or developments.

It also provide a futures timeline potential, either as a organisational planning tool, or a futures foresight approach. I am working with an organisation to visually map out their business plans, intentions, strategies or milestones, and in discussion with a construction project to record progress on site.  This is an obvious use of timelines, as the Walter Mill Ateliers project demonstrates

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and know of anything I've got wrong, they could let me know (Mark...?).

Observations:

1) I've played more gigs than I thought I had - around 120. I seem to have let my 100th gig go past unnoticed at the pub round the corner from my house, just before Christmas a couple of years ago. Officially a seasoned pro.

2) Bands come and go SO FREQUENTLY. Looking back at the names of bands who were tipped for 'the top' from four or five years ago is fascinating just to see how many lasted six months and died, only to reform with slightly different lineups. Admittedly, this might suggest that we should have GIVEN UP by now, but hey, why stop when you're enjoying it?

3) I can remember so much about almost every gig, like when you catch a whiff of something you haven't smelt for years and it all comes back. I can practically smell the post-stripper baby oil from the dressing room at the White Horse, although thankfully not the vomit from chucking up in my bag post-gig one time.

4) I really should be better at playing my instruments than I am.

5) I've had A LOT of fun. I adore playing gigs, except for when they go wrong of course. More of which to come.

6) I really have far too much time on my hands if I've got time to do this...

Unfortunately Wordpress doesn't allow the use of iframe tags at the moment apparently, so you'll have to go over here to see the timeline.

Das tool dipity.com ist eine Erwähnung wert, ebenso die Idiotenthese des Spiegel und Ivan Hajek, aber eines nach dem anderen.

Der Spiegel provoziert wieder eine Sommerlochsdiskussion, dabei geht völlig verloren, dass er, wenn auch unmotiviert auf ein nettes Webtool namens dipity verlinkt. (soviel zum Thema selbsterfüllende Provezeihung), wenn man aber über den Spaßfaktor des Spiegel hinaus schaut, kann ich mir das tool recht spannend vorstellen.

Ideal nahezu für die Geschichtsunterricht.

Was dürfte Schüler mehr motivieren, als sich anhand von YouTube Videos die öster. Geschichte zu erarbeiten. Die Lücken können sie selbst füllen. Mit Text, Ton Bild... Ich sehe da viel Potential, bis jetzt ist es leider kaum genutzt.

Gleichzeitig macht es deutlich, das nicht google der Bigbrother ist, sondern wir.

Und, nicht das Internet macht uns Dumm, sondern wir.

Auf dipity wird deutlich, wie leicht es ist, Chronologien zu visualisieren. Damit kann so leicht gezeit werden, wann ich wo bin, was ich von diesem Ort aus für Photos mache, welche Texte ich schreibe, welche Videos ich schaue.

Wenn ich es zulasse.

Und darin sehe ich einen der viel zu oft ignorierten Diskussionspunkte. Google hat nur die Daten, die wir eingeben und das Internet macht uns nur dumm, wenn WIR aufhören zu denken.

Dabei sehe ich den Fall google schon etwas komplizierter, aber was die intelektuelle Leistung des Web angeht, möchte ich sogar behaupten das mich das Internet klüger macht.

5 Punkte für das Internet

1. Ich nehme MEHR wissen auf. Das Netz hat unendlich viele Informationen. Ich lerne zu sortieren und zu verknüpfen.

2. Ich finde widersprüchliche Informationen. Ich habe nicht nur meine Tageszeitung mit ihrer Blattlinie, sondern viele Blickwinkel aus denen berichtet wird. Ich lerne abzuwägen und auch einmal keine Meinung haben zu können.

3. Das Internet organisiert mein Wissen. Im Web 2.0 lege ich selbst meine (Denk-)Ordnung fest. Welche Informationen brauche ich täglich, was sind meine Recherchequellen (und goggle ist da endlich weg von Platz 1). Ich lerne dadurch wie wichtig Wissen für mich ist, was muss ich "ohne Internet" wissen, was kann ich getrost nachschlagen.

4. Das Internet zeigt mir Neues. Es ist Blödsinn, das ich NUR in der Zeitung auf neue Themen komme. Schlichter Blödsinn.

5. Das Internet zeigt mir, was andere Wissen. An Stelle der Autoren meiner Lokalzeitung, meinen Proffesoren und Kollegen bin ich über ein paar Schnittstellen mit vielen Informationsquellen verbunden, die ebenfalls viel wissen und ein Teil dieses Wissens online verfügbar gemacht haben. Für mich, wie nett.

Das heißt nicht, dass ich im Netz nicht verblöden kann. (Man sieht es an meiner Orthographie), aber wer mit dem Internet verblödet, wäre es wohl auch ohne. Mir fehlen da leider die medizinischen Studien um das zu belegen, aber wer in der Lage ist zu DENKEN, der wird auch WISSEN, dass er dieses DENKEN nicht einem Gerät überlassen kann.

Das Internet ist nun mal kein Teufel, es sind nur Einsen und Nullen, wenn man mir das Internet weg nimmt, bleibe ich übrig. Nimmt man dem Internet seine Nutzer weg, bleibt nichts.

Man kann sich auch mit zwei Steinen die Köpfe einschlagen, aber irgendwer war mal so gescheit, sie aneinander zu hauen und Feuer zu machen.

(Sorry, ich liebe hinkende Vergleiche)

So und jetzt zur Kultur. Hier in München sind die Bettler und Seelenverkäufer nämlich erstaunlich aufdringlich. Mit einer Außnahme, den Straßenmusikanten. Eine talentierte Szene belebt die Stadt, einer von ihnen ist Ivan Hajek und, wie soll es anders sein, er ist bei YouTube zu finden...

Kleines Update, für alle die soviel Zeit haben, dass sie mich nicht im feedreader lesen:

Irgendwer hat gesagt, das Internet macht dumm. Jetzt will der FERNSEHSENDER Sat.1 vier neue Sendungen produzieren, hat sich aber schon mal 27 Titel sichern lassen. Super, denn wir wissen fernehn bildet und Internet, ihr wisst schon...

Wenn die Sendung nur halb so lustig sind wie ihre Namen ist Sat.1 gerettetm(aber vor was?) :

Hier alle Titel

Peng! Die Westernshow
Schlotter! Die Gruselshow
Aloha! Die Südseeshow
Holldriöh! Die Alpenshow
Muh! Die Bauernshow
AAIIAAH! Die Urwaldshow
Klirr! Die Rittershow
Schluck! Die Wüstenshow
Rumms! Die Gladiatorenshow
Action! Die Hollywoodshow
Brutzel! Die Kochshow
Platsch! Die Piratenshow
Tuut! Die Autoshow
Marsch! Die Bundeswehrshow
Aua! Die Ärzteshow
Tsching! Die Chinashow
Klatsch! Die Tortenshow
Tooor! Die Fußballshow
Klingeling! Die Weihnachtsshow
Schmatz! Die Valentinsshow
Hoppel! Die Ostershow
Raus! Die Ferienshow
Schock! Die Schulshow ????????????müsste es nicht heißen Gähn! Die Schulshow
Rutsch! Die Silvestershow
Blüh! Die Frühlingsshow
Bibber! Die Wintershow
Schluchz! Die Nostalgieshow

Wenn jemand 150 Euro für mich hat, bitte schnell melden. Oder Sat.1 hat Interesse:

Quietsch! Die Fahrradshow.

Arghh! Die Friedhofsshow.

Rungs! Die Trennungsshow.

Wow! Die Peepshow.

Puuups. Die Show der Flatulenzen.

ach ja, und: Switch! Die Show des endgültigen Ausschaltens von Sat.1, wie gesagt 150 Euro pro Titel...

aber Vorsicht. Dieser Beitrag steht im Internet. Kann also unter Umständen dumm machen.

Saw a demo of Dipity Timelines at IWMW08 in Aberdeen.  Fantastic.  The demo I saw mashed some news rss feeds with yahoo pipes and then Dipity to produce a timeline of news published by Aberdeen University and related stories on Google News.  Here's a timeline for my flickr photos - it unfortunately only shows the last 200.

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I did it!  I did it!  I posted the timeline on Dipity!  I'll update the timeline later with photos and later events, but whatever, it's up!

I also bring you your two-day advance warning for an Aminal Food marathon.  It starts at 2 PM EST Friday Thursday.  I will be leaving Miami on this day and I will be flying trusty JetBlue, but I can't promise you if I'll watch.  Like I said eariler, my heart is with The Move...

I couldn't get the timeline to embed here but if you click the image you'll get to see the real thing.  For another (better) example take a look at Brian's original Dipity post.

My example is set so that only I can edit it but you can open it up to others for some collaborative timelining!

The Simile software is not, however, all that easy for a non-developer to use. So I was pleased to recently come across the Web-based Dipity service for creating and visualising timelines. I used this to create a timeline of IWMW events, which  can be accessed on the Dipity Web site. It has also been embedded on the UKOLN Web site. An image of the interface is shown below.

In addition to providing a timeline of the annual event from 1997-2008 I also included photos from Flickr which had been tagged with 'iwmw2008'. And as the service allows not only uploads from various popular Web 2.0 services (Flickr, YouTube, etc.) but also from any RSS feed I realised that I could also add the news feed for IWMW 2008 and details of the plenary talks, which is also available as an RSS file.

The timeline of the IWMW 2008 News provides a visual display of the public announcements such as when the Web site was set up, the call for speakers announced, the event opened for bookings, etc. The display of the timetable for the plenary talks can provide a similar overview - but in this case the times are not necessarily accurate, due to the complexities of time zones (I haven't yet established whether this is a limitation of the Dipity service or the data I use).

More importantly, though, is the danger of data lock-in when using a service such as this, together with the question of the sustainability of the Dipity company -especially as a Crunchbase article on Dipity fails to provide any evidence of investment in the company.

The approach I have taken is to steer clear of making significant use of the data entry form for the service - and initially I thought that it wasn't possible to export data added to the system, although I subsequently discovered an RSS feed for my timeline - although this does not appear to be documented. As a general principle, however, I would be concerned if my data is locked into an application,and lost if the service failed to be sustainable or if I wanted to migrate my data to an alternative service.

However as Dipity allows data to be imported from RSS feeds I am able to have my managed RSS feeds as the master source for my data, thus reducing the risks of data loss to any minor tweaks I may make to the data within the Dipity service.

So if you regard Dipity as a visualisation tool for data which is managed elsewhere, I would suggest that the service can provide a very useful way of displaying data.

Dipity caught my attention only because they came up with a very cool use of the YouTube API.  However, they also came up with a very interactive widget that, if done properly, could be as compelling as Slide's slide show widget.  Basically, they allow you to create a timeline of anything and share them with the world.  Here is a link to the Apple Timeline.  Even cooler, they allow various views on the same timeline and allow multiple people edit the timeline.

Their biggest problem is going to be performance.  I'm running Firefox 3 on a pretty beefy Ubuntu box and the rendering stinks.  They'll need to figure this out.

Bottom line, a compelling startup can be as simple as a different way to visualize something.  It will be interesting to see if they are able to gain traction.