Video URLs, Dipity make it easy to create CNN tech timeline
If you bookmark videos from sites like YouTube or Vimeo, you can turn those links into a timeline by simply pasting them into Dipity.
Mark S. Luckie compiled 9 landmark moments in CNN technology. In true 10,000 Words fashion, almost every moment included a video. With my last blog post still fresh in my mind, I immediately wondered how the CNN moments might work as a timeline.
Dipity made the process easy. I created a new timeline and added a new event for each of the CNN landmarks.
As I created each item, I pasted the address of the corresponding video into the clearly-marked “Video URL” field. I completed each entry by copying and pasting the summaries from Luckie’s original post.
For the few items that didn’t have videos, I simply added the URL of the corresponding images in the post.
Here, with permission from Luckie, is the final product. A visual timeline created by pasting in 9 almighty links:
July 31st, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Awesome use of Dipity!
Tell us if you have any suggestions!
-ben
August 1st, 2009 at 8:12 am
Thank you for listening and commenting. No suggestions yet, but I do have a question. When I embed a timeline with the "flipbook" display, the second item is the one that the viewer sees first. How can I make the first event (or any other specific event) the default?
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Unfortunately, right now there is not a way to select the first item in flipbook.
We are in the midst of redesigning all of the views, and maybe introducing a couple of new ones if ti all works out well. We'll make sure this is a feature of flipbook v2.
- Derek
June 21st, 2010 at 8:13 am
Derek, what is bothering me is 3 things:
1) I can't set background image like you have it on dipity home page,
2) I need more information on how to properly get my feeds working (image / video) [my lameness issue]
3) You might need someone to become your minister of interior design. Can we talk???