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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.

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.

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!

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.