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We’re taking all the great energy you’ve put into Dipity and re-inventing the site around the features you liked and requested most.   We can’t say too much yet, but the New Dipity will include a ton of new social features and a full-on redesign.

For a sneak preview in a couple weeks, and to be first on the Private Beta lists enter your email in the “get alerted” box on the homepage.

Stay tuned for another update at the beginning of September.  We think you’ll love it!

Yahoo! announced their new Fire Eagle service today with a few launch partners including… you guessed it: Dipity!  The idea behind Fire Eagle is simple, users should have one place to update their location, and many places to use it.  This struck a chord pretty quickly with Ryan Romanchuk, our resident geo-location nut expert and award-winning engineer.

Since then he’s been hard at work to let Fire Eagle users track their location over time and share it with their friends on Dipity.  Users can also post their location back to Fire Eagle from Dipity from their own events or events they find through their Dipity friends.

Signing up on Fire Eagle is a snap, and adding it to your timeline (and map view!) is just two clicks from there.  We hope you’ll give it a go and give us your thoughts.

From 920 Harrison St., San Francisco, Ca., this is Dipity saying congrats to Yahoo! and happy travels.

OK, so maybe that’s a little over-the-top, but we did put out a lot of cool stuff!  We’ve been really happy about getting used by some great sites like The Guardian, Fox, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Salt Lake Tribune, and Wired’s CultofMac (and a slew of blogs).  They’ve also been nice enough to give us some great feedback which we’ve wrapped up in our release this week.

Publishers can now control the size, color, background, default view, and time settings of their embeds, all from an interactive preview.  With the new “Embed Builder” it should be easy to make Dipity fit in perfectly with your website or blog.

It’s a little foggy in San Francisco, so we decided to make our embed “San Francisco Nights” themed for today.  Let us know what you think!

What’s Jiggle? It’s that little bit of gravy that makes your app go from functional to fun (think Treo v. iPhone). As part of our “hack day” competition/celebration, Ben got jiggly with it, and won himself the gold.

Our timelines now bounce, fade, fly in, slow with friction, speed up with a harder throw… it’s almost like they’re real.

It’s a subtle change for some, but totally fun and a great new usabilty standard for all of us. Start using your favorite timeline and you’ll notice, or if you don’t have one, check out mine.

After TimeTube’s resounding success, we decided to show that it’s not just videos that can be organized and displayed in a more interesting way. Next up were photos, so naturally: Time + Flickr = Tickr!

The images themselves are really stunning (thanks Flickr users!), but it’s also a really neat way to explore a topic (or your own Flickr account).

Seeing is believing, so try some searches and have some fun.

Some that caught our eye were:

• Burning Man: Artists really know how to make things look amazing :). Get a recap of the best from each of the last few years.
• September 11th: This one is sad and heart-warming at once. You can see the the old New York skyline, the day-of from around the city, and then the memorials shine into the sky.
• Northern Lights: Experience the phenomenon as seen from around the world, and as it changes year to year.

Hope you’ll try it out, and remember to write in with your thoughts and favorite searches!

As the first of many mashups to come, we launched TimeTube today… and couldnt be happier about how it turned out. It really seems like we fired on all cylinders for this one… it’s clean, simple, shiny, and best of all totally useful. TimeTube adds a dimension to YouTube that I’ve never seen before… it lets it tell you a story. A few examples:

I could go on forever, but nothing I say will be as cool as seeing it for yourself!

Being down for 91 minutes yesterday easily raised the company blood pressure a good 91 points. But, we’ve added infrastructure, built out our failover plans, and collectively breathed a small sigh of relief.

I think it may be a rite of passage for a web startup to go down at exactly the wrong time, which in our case meant having just been posted to lifehacker and embedded in hundreds of sites.

Here’s hoping we got ours out of the way early! In any case, we’ll go into our weekends feeling good again, and taking comfort in knowing that downtime problems are only problems because so many people care.