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Hey guys! Sorry for the delay in posting this one. Once again we got some great Flips for this contest and it was another tough decision, but here are the finalists. Congratulations and great job!

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

So there you go! A big congratulations to the winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated and submitted such great Flips!

Hey guys. We’ve just launched our first Flip Stack: Beto Cuevas – Miedo Escénico. Beto is a great latin rock singer and he’s giving away a personal AOL video chat serenade to a lucky fan.

In order to win, you need to collect all six Flips in his Stack. Now, unlike other Flips you’ve seen on Flipshake so far, these Flips are collected on different websites around the net. You start by collecting the first Flip and when you Flip it over you’ll get a link and clue to where you find the next one. It’s a Flip scavenger hunt! When you’ve collected all six, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win the video chat with Beto!

Check out the stack here: http://www.flipshake.com/stack/BetoCuevas

Be sure to follow the Beto Stack on Twitter at betoflipshake for more updates and info too!

Have fun hunting down those Flips.

Lenses focus, eyes focus, minds focus. Earthquakes have a focus point. How do you focus? What are you focused on? That’s what we’re looking for in our latest contest. Submit awesome Flips representing “focus” and win this brand new Canon Digital XSi DSLR – with auto focus! Just in case you have a hard time focussing.

In case you’re wondering, all forms of submissions are acceptable including photography, illustration or any other way you’d like to express your creativity.

For the full contest details and rules, click here.

To enter a Flip into the contest, choose this Set (Contest #5: Focus) upon submitting your Flip. We will be judging Flips on the creative integration of both sides of a Flip, the Flip’s collection percentage, the creative interpretation of the theme, technical skill, and originality.

CONTEST SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS SUNDAY, May 31st AT MIDNIGHT!

Prizes will be as follows:

Grand Prize:
Canon Digital XSi DSLR
Flipshake T-shirt
Flipshake Contest Badge (worth 1000 Flipshake Points)

Runner Up:
iPod Nano 16GB (color of winner’s choice)
Prismacolor Premier Pencil Set of 120
Flipshake T-shirt
Flipshake Contest Badge (worth 500 Flipshake Points)

Honorable Mention:
Prismacolor Premier Pencil Set of 120
Flipshake T-shirt
Flipshake Contest Badge (worth 250 Flipshake Points)

For the full contest details and rules, click here.

Good Luck!

One of the things we hear most from you guys is a request for a much better commenting system. Well we’ve just recently launched an update to the site that does just that. First of all, you can now style your comments and include links. Secondly, you can now reply directly to people’s comments with your reply showing up right beneath the original comment. You’ll also receive a notification when someone replies to your comment even if it’s not on one of your pages. There’s a few more little tweaks too and all together we feel this is a big improvement to our comments system. This is brand new, so let us know what you think and if you find any problems. Also, if you have any ideas on how it can be even better, please let us know.

This was far and away our best contest yet and you guys created a bunch of amazing Flips. Everyone was really creative and that resulted in a wide range of interpretations to the theme “Alive”. The bad parts was that it was a really tough contest to judge. In the end we had to pick three winners, but we could have easily picked a lot more. Still, the three Flips that did win really stood out. So with out further ado, here they are!

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

So there you go! A big congratulations to the winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated and submitted such great Flips! We’ll be announcing our next very soon, so keep checking back often!

Share and Collect Flips All Over the Web!

We’ve launched an exciting new feature on Flipshake today: Embeddable Flips. Now you can take any Flip and show it on your own website or blog. The embedded Flip functions just like it does on the Flipshake site and can be Flipped and even collected right from the page it’s on! Right now we’re releasing it in two sizes, as seen below, with more options to come soon.
 

This is a great way to show others your favorite Flips and the Flips you’ve made. We hope you like it. Let us know what you think!

Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know we just received the Wacom Cintiq 12wx that we’re giving away to the lucky winner of Flipshake’s “Alive” contest. There are less than 3 days left to submit to the contest, so if you want to win this awesome pen display you better get to it. We’ve had some great submissions to the contest so far. You can check them out here. 

So here are a couple of images of the box in case you need a little more motivation. The thing looks sweet. Wish I could keep it :)

Good luck to everyone!

Now anyone can sign up to Flipshake without waiting for an invitation!

Thanks to all of your great feedback during the private portion of our beta, we’ve decided it’s time to move Flipshake into an “open” beta status. That means anyone can now sign up and start using the site right away without waiting for an invitation. This goes hand in hand with the new social sharing/bookmarking feature, so now all those people you share our site with can jump into Flipshake and check it out. Let everyone know about your stuff on Flipshake! Spread the word and help us build a great community.

New Gallery Views, Flip Flipping in More Places, and Social Sharing 

Thanks to some great feedback you’ve given us, we’ve made many really great improvements to Flipshake, but I wanted to point out three major ones. The first thing is new views to our Flip galleries. At the top right corner of a Flip gallery page you’ll find a “View Options” area that lets you switch between the normal view we’ve had all along and two new views: mini-view and detail-view. Mini-view lets you see 100 Flips on the page at once. This is great for looking at a bunch of Flips quickly. Detail-view lets you see 20 Flips at a time but with some of the Flip’s stats and even a “Collect this Flip” button.

The next feature we’ve added is the ability to flip Flips in a lot more places. Previously, the only way to flip Flips was on each Flips detail page. Now we’ve added flipping to almost anywhere you see a Flip. And as a bonus, it even works on your iPhone! Now you can say this ten times fast: How much Flippin would a FlipFlip do if a FlipFlip could Flip Flips?

Finally, we’ve also added social bookmarking and sharing feature to Flipshake! Now from any Flip’s or any person’s page you’ll find links to share or bookmark the page on your favorite social networks. Of course, this wouldn’t be that cool if the people you share with can’t get on the site, so we’ve also… well more on that in a bit! ;)

We hope you like these new features. We’re still tweaking them, so be sure to let us know what you think.

It’s time for our next contest! Better yet, this time we’re finally giving away that awesome Wacom Cintiq 12WX we’ve told you about, along with some other great prizes.

The theme of this contest is “Alive”. What does it mean to be Alive? What does the word “Alive” bring to your mind. More importantly how can you represent “Alive” on both sides of a Flip?

You can submit as many entries as you like and entries will be judged on the creative integration of both sides of a Flip, the Flip’s collection percentage, the creative interpretation of the theme, technical skill, and originality. We also strongly encourage you to write good descriptions for your Flips when submitting them as it can help boost it’s chances during the judging process! There will also be prizes awarded for first, second, and third place.

The submission deadline for “Alive” is January 31st, so go and get Flip making! Artists, photographers, illustrators, designers, 3D modelers –  let’s see what great Flips you can make come Alive!

Check out the “Alive” contest page here, and the current submissions to the contest here.

Good luck!