Storify is a new service for building on-the-fly curated “stories” out of disparate elements like Tweets, Flickr photos, Facebook postings and so on. It’s in beta now; I gave it a whirl just now. I’m embedding my first Storify story here.
I couldn’t figure out how to add my own text other than the summary at the top; it would have been nice to weave the quoted tweets together with my own words.
I also couldn’t figure out how to use Storify to edit the story after I saved it.
I assume these are on the “features” list somewhere!
UPDATE: As you can see I have now figured out how to do both these things. Memo to interface designers: some of us actually find text labels more useful than naked icons… Still, can’t complain too loudly here. Storify is pretty easy to use!
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- 29 September, 2010 @ 11:53 [Current Revision] by Scott Rosenberg
- 29 September, 2010 @ 11:45 by Scott Rosenberg
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Scott – You can add text blocks between Storify elements by clicking on that little “T” that appears between each story element.
Whoops! Never mind. Just realized you figured it out mid-Storify. :-)
I was playing with Storify a lot last yesterday and ran into problems with some tweets not saving where I wanted them (and some not appearing at all). I’m interested to see if others have the same experience. I know it’s beta so hopefully it gets worked out soon. I also tried Keepstream, which doesn’t have as many features but was more stable.