Diptiy Timeline Active Research

Some stuff I did during a week of my life! on Dipity.

This thing is kind of cool and has a lot of potential, I think. To me, it is basically like a Twitter, except more visually alluring perhaps since the timeline is animated and interactive. I don’t use Twitter, but I noticed you can sync up your posts on to the timeline. The only program that I was able to do this with was with my Last.fm account. So now you can see some of the songs I was listening to during the week of my life that I put topics for.

The timeline itself needs some work with the animation though I think because I noticed when I would add an event it wouldn’t show up but would show up on the “list” view. I’m not sure if it’s selective with what it wants to display, but someone needs to figure it out so all the event entries show up like they are supposed to. I also don’t think it’s necessary to have a “description” tab separate from the picture since the description shows up underneath that anyway. I would like it more too if the pictures you upload could be clicked and seen at full size.

Despite some of these minor flaws, I think there are definitely potential uses for interactive timelines such as Dipity. For example, I can see businesses using their company smartphones to enable employees to show their progress throughout the workday by adding new events and taking a picture of the task they were working on.

I wish I had access to this during grade school for History presentations. I think that it would have definitely made those presentations not so boring!