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All good things must come to an end so although our Dipity community will continue to make useful and amazing timelines, this will be the last of this five part “best of” series. We will continue to feature Dipster timelines on our blog, so feel free to send any interesting timelines our way.

Last time we took a look a an i.materialise blogpost on 3D printing turned into a very detailed Dipity timeline, as well as The Stueben Glass Timeline tracing the long history of the art glass manufacturer. Both were great examples of collaboration and innovative uses of the Dipity platform. This week we focus on two more amazing applications.

1. 2011 MLS Super Draft Tracker
Description: All the picks and trades from all rounds of the 2011 SuperDraft.
Timespan: January 13, 2011, 12:00PM to January 13, 2011, 4:10PM

As a long time reader of MLS-Rumors.net I was excited a couple of weeks ago when we had a little talk about Dipity timelines with the site owners via Twitter. Then, on Thursday, we got the tweet that they were employing Dipity to create a live draft tracker for the 2011 MLS Super Draft.

Since Dipity can be updated in real time, it makes for a good tool when covering rapidly developing events. For example, the Washington Post used Dipity to follow the extraction of each of the 33 Chilean Miners in 2010.

MLS Rumors took that same concept and applied it to sports. I had never though of using Dipity as a draft tracker before, but why not? As you can see from the embed, its a great way for fans to follow along. Along with the basic stats, pics and description of the pick, MLS Rumors used the Dipity event to add video highlights of players and links to player profiles. Using the timeline I was able to follow along with my Sounder’s picks and furthermore, learn a bit about our incoming draft class.

Great job on the timeline and we hope that your site continues to grow as exponentially as the MLS talent pool!

2. Elainie Lillios Concert Calendar
Description: A “future” timeline of Elainie Lillios upcoming events and concerts.
Timespan: January 3, 2011 to April 30, 2011

We first head from Elainie when she asked for help getting started on a History of Music Timeline. She wanted to add all of her students as editors of the timeline so they could work on it together. Once we got things working, she shared her personal timeline with us. We are sure glad she did.

Elainie is a composer and made a timeline of her upcoming concerts with Dipity. She then embedded the timeline on her website. Click on the image below to check out the embed.

In Elainie’s words, “t’s FAB! — Much cooler than a simple calendar!” We couldn’t agree more. Why show a simple text calendar when you can add images, links and more and display it all in a perfect chronological order?

I had never thought of using Dipity as a planner or calendar for the upcoming year, but now that I see it in action, I am more than convinced. And of course, any good time machine should work properly in the past, present and future.

So there we have it, ten amazing, innovative and surprising ways Dipsters have utilized our platform. Whether its a data visualization, calendar, educational project or draft tracker, our users seem to be doing it all. I’ve said it before and I will say it again, probably way more times than any of you want to ever hear, there is NO LIMIT to how you can utilize Dipity. Try it out today!

-Steve, Community Manager