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After months of anticipation, the top-secret system we’ve been hyping is here. It’s called Real-Time Events. Instead of wasting 2,500 words or so, I’ll let the following video do the talking. Check it out:

Snazzy, huh? The brand new mobile help section is a great reference for creating these newfangled Real-Time Events. Also, check out the Real-Time Event example Real-Time Event!

Go try it out!

Oh, but there’s more… much more. The team hasn’t been messin’ around. Here’s a look at some of it:

Flash-based streaming video. Send in a video from your mobile phone (or through the site) and it will show up right away on an event, your profile, or whatever you send it to. The same still applies for pictures.

Facebook on ImThere. Invite your Facebook friends to events right from the event page. Webmail contacts can be invited the same way. ImThere, Facebook, Webmail, and custom contacts can all be invited at once. They can be invited to ImThere itself too.

Mobile Account Creation. Have your friends send in their videos and pictures while you’re at an event—they no longer need to be a registered ImThere user. After sending in their first message, they will be prompted for a username and then supplied with a password. Their submitted content is automatically linked to their newly formed account, which they can customize once they return home.

Mobile made intuitive. All ImThere mobile interfaces have been completely retooled for ease of use. A brand new mobile hint bar has been added to provide contextual help for interacting with sections of ImThere from your mobile phone. Those hints tie into the brand new mobile help page.

GeoRSS support. Paste the URL for any ImThere RSS feed into a GeoRSS-enabled mapping application, such as Google Maps, and all local events will be overlaid on the map.

Complete hCard, hCal, and iCal support. Add events, artists, and venues to your calendar and address book with one click. For the best experience, install this plugin for Safari or this plugin for Firefox. You can alternatively use this bookmarklet which works in IE too.

Much, much more. Over 40 other improvements, tweaks, and fixes have been included in this update. The most notable of the 40 is drastically better support for Internet Explorer, as well as tweaks to perfect ImThere in Firefox.

This is by far the biggest update we’ve launched. Have fun with it all and let us know what you think! Of course, there’s always more to come…