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Hey You. (Yeah You!)

Go ahead and go on to Dipity.com and get your time-based FREAK ON. I challenge you to make a timeline of no less than 10 events on your favorite topic, a band, your kid, or George W. Bush, or whatever you want. Even yourself.

What’s the reward? The prize? The cupcake? You get to be one of the founding fathers/mothers… one of the SHAPERS of things to come with Dipity. We need your Feedback, and if you can actually BREAK stuff, be sure and tell us about it, OK?

Thanks you old son-of-a-gun.

While at the GSP conference I had a chance to catch up with the fine folks at Information Week / TechWeb. They were kind enough to take some time to learn about Dipity and actually point a video camera at me.

Check out the full article.

That’s right .. it’s a roving RV travelling around Austin to the different SXSW parties. It’s the brainchild of RubyredLabs Jonathan Grubb and Kestrin Pantera. Dipity is contributing to the effort.

Send a text to 40404 and type ‘follow rviplounge’ to get twitters of our locations and happenings. Hope to see you!

UPDATE:

{RV}IP was spotlighted in the towards the end of the interactive part of SXSW, with Derek getting caught by Times photographer Tony Pierce.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/03/rvip.html

RVIP Boing Boing ‘d (sort of)

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/18/cool-personal-notes.html

(look in Mike’s notes, there’s a little miniature RVIP van)

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The RVIP Lounge was something that we were able to sponsor last minute
and proved to be a huge success and created a nice amount of buzz for
Ruby Red Labs (our co-sponsor) and Dipity. The concept was simple,
rather than sponsor a party or event at a fixed location let’s create
a moving party that never stops. We rented an RV, had some banners
created and loaded it up with a Karaoke machine, booze, a projector
and all the fixings for late night nachos. The RV rolled out each
night around 5 and updated people on location via twitter (follow:
rviplounge) and usually shut down about 5-6 in the morning.

Great Job Jonathan and Kestrin! RubyRedLabs

Derek and BJ will be representing (but not presenting) at SXSW in Austin this week, getting our fill of nerdiness and bbq.

Email BJ at bj [at] dipity dot com to hook up!

At the first night of the GSP West Dipity was chosen to participate in ‘AppNite’, a contest that pitted 10 products against each other with the high stakes of fame and more importantly an Macbook Air. The contest took place with attendees from both GSP and eTech and was scheduled just before the Tim O’Reilly evening keynote presentation so the house was packed. Each presenter was given 5 min. to pitch and then the audience voted via SMS.

Aside for losing a minute of our time to some technical issues (the A/V gods were not smiling down on us), the demo went very well and many people came up afterwards and asked questions about what we’re doing with Dipity and where we’re heading next beyond Facebook.

This was really the first time we’ve gotten up in front of a large crowd and put it out there. The response was great. People got it, they wanted more, they got ‘the big idea’. It’s always nice to have some external validation for what you’ve been pouring yourself into for the past 9+ months.

When all was said and done we came in a tie for second with another app with 22% of the vote. The winning app was an analytics platform for developers, which isn’t surprising given the focus of both the conferences on developers.