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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.