Dipity is in my opinion very time consuming and not worth it for the average person. I used it to create a timeline of my photoshoots for last season, which creates a "cool" visual... but I doubt that anyone would care to take a look at my timeline more than once unless i was some sort of public figure. The software had some glitches which made things more frustrating, such as the same event showing up multiple times, one of them on the wrong date. The timeline concept could be used for news sites and historical visualization of things that matter to humanity such as historical points in national histories, civil rights movements, art technique progression, etc. The site is fairly "web 2.0" in the sense that it can import photos into the events by using only html links, and can link the locations to google maps. The timeline arranges the event bubbles well, but could still be better, using the capabilities of flash and 'mouse over' functions to expand each even without clicking, and making the default view less cluttered for a large quantity of events over a small period of time. Dipity could be used by the school systems to lay out key dates (drop class deadline, fees deadline, class registration times), and i think that that would be very useful... but i think that the most useful thing that Dipity could create is a way to export timelines from the internet into programs like iCal which can be synced up with a personal computer or mobile device.
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