The Washington Post, The New York Times and the White House have all used the social reporting tool Storify to drag and drop tweets, posts and other media culled from the social web into neat, embeddable timelines. As of Thursday, they’ll be able to post the same social media stories in a slideshow format.
Storify, which launched publicly in April, maintains the functions of each social media post included in its timelines, a function it noticed was missing from traditional online slideshows.
“We see a lot of sites use slideshows in general to show tweets and other elements,” says Storify co-founder Xavier Damman. “But when they do it that way, they use screenshots, and that’s losing the fact that this is a tweet, you can retweet it, you can reply.”
Any of the about 100,000 stories that have been created using Storify can now be viewed as a slideshow by adding “/slideshow” to the end of the URL or choosing “slideshow” from a drop-down menu within the embed option.
But Damman notes there are many more options for Storify templates than the two now included in the drop-down menu.
“We are using our own API to do the slideshow,” he says. “Anyone can develop a template for displaying the story, something that is really new.”
View “This is what the standard Storify format looks like” on Storify
View “This is what Storify’s slideshow format looks like” on Storify
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Posted on Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:52:23 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/3jJGeyjlZxM/
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Storify, which launched publicly in April, maintains the functions of each social media post included in its timelines, a function it noticed was missing from traditional online slideshows.
“We see a lot of sites use slideshows in general to show tweets and other elements,” says Storify co-founder Xavier Damman. “But when they do it that way, they use screenshots, and that’s losing the fact that this is a tweet, you can retweet it, you can reply.”
Any of the about 100,000 stories that have been created using Storify can now be viewed as a slideshow by adding “/slideshow” to the end of the URL or choosing “slideshow” from a drop-down menu within the embed option.
But Damman notes there are many more options for Storify templates than the two now included in the drop-down menu.
“We are using our own API to do the slideshow,” he says. “Anyone can develop a template for displaying the story, something that is really new.”
View “This is what the standard Storify format looks like” on Storify
View “This is what Storify’s slideshow format looks like” on Storify
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Posted on Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:52:23 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/3jJGeyjlZxM/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/storify-slideshow/#comments