While I was in New York my invite to preview the upcoming incarnation of Dipity dropped in the inbox. Which sorta killed me, as I wanted to start playing with it immediately - but I had Manhattan's shops all around me. In the end Manhattan (and my marriage) won but now I'm back home I've... Continue Reading →
Learning from liveblogging
I'd love to know how many of the UK's regional newspapers have run liveblogs this year; it seems as though real-time coverage and participation in almost everything (public spectacles, event TV, sports, political rallies to name a few) is on the increase when it was hardly in evidence 12 months ago.I've been pondering this as... Continue Reading →
A Dipity TimeTube of La Princess
And another great excuse to use Dipity... this time it's the TimeTube application that I'm trying out. This has taken all the YouTube videos with the keywords I selected (La Princess, La Machine) and worked it into an embeddable display of videos.This is a really nice way of displaying the giant spider videos in one... Continue Reading →
Building a Yahoo Pipe
Today is a good day; I have successfully built a working Yahoo Pipe.It's not especially pretty but it is, I think, quite clever; it filters all the latest news, photos and quality blog posts from the world of Fashion for the Girls Behaving Stylishly team to place on their blog as a widget, and to... Continue Reading →
Everton FC’s stadium plan for Kirkby on Dipity
This took a couple of hours and I had hundreds of stories and photos to choose from. I've just used an intro and then linked back to the story on wwww.liverpooldailypost.co.ukI've blogged about how much I liked the idea of using Dipity to tell stories before, so I figured I ought to put my money... Continue Reading →
Testing TimeTube
This is a great tool! It's Dipity's TimeTube, which basically lets you search for keyword tags on YouTube and displays the findings on a timeline, a la Plurk (but left to right this time).The Liverpool FC one works particularly well (lots of great goals for fan bloggers, for example) but I've plumped for Mathew Street... Continue Reading →
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