April 18th, 2013

Storify Aims For Marketers With its New ‘Storify Business’ Plan, Redesigns Free Version Too

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Last month, social media curation service Storify revealed its first paid plan, Storify VIP. It sounds like VIP is designed for large media organizations (the first announced customer was the BBC), but today, Storify is announcing that it created a more accessible, less journalism-focused option called Storify Business.

“The new features will broaden our user base beyond journalism to these… → Read More

April 15th, 2013

Denver Post Highlights Social Media Coverage (And Storify) In Its Pulitzer Win

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The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and among the winners was the staff of The Denver Post for its coverage of the Aurora, Colo., shootings last summer – coverage in which Twitter and Facebook (and to a lesser extent, Storify) played a big role.

At this point, it’s so obvious that it seems almost silly to note that social media plays a role in how reporters break stories. However, it also… → Read More

March 28th, 2013

Storify Announces A Paid VIP Plan With Liveblogging And Collaboration Features, Partners With BBC

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Storify has become a useful tool for media organizations trying to capture newsworthy or entertaining social media conversations for their readers, with its ability to combine tweets, photos, and more into an embeddable conversation. Today the company is announcing a VIP plan with features designed specifically for “media organizations, publishers or anyone wanting to deeply integrate social… → Read More

November 20th, 2012

Social Curation Site Storify Gets A Search- And Media-Centric Redesign

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Storify is launching a redesigned website that puts search front and center.

The site — which allows you to create stories out of online content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram — already included a search feature, but now the small search box at the top right of the home page has been enlarged, so that it becomes the obvious way to navigate the site. The search results have… → Read More

July 25th, 2012

NBC Links Up With Storify For Real-Time Curated Olympics Coverage Across Today.com And Owned Station Sites

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On the heels of a deal with Facebook to promote Olympic conversations on NBC’s Facebook page, the broadcast network today is taking one more step to improve its social standing during the big sports event. It is linking up with Storify, the social-media “story creator”, to put streams of real-time Olympic content, curated by NBC journalists, across Today.com as well as NBC’s 10 owned TV station… → Read More

April 17th, 2012

Curation Service Storify Partners With Pulse In First-Ever Syndication Deal

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Storify, the startup that lets anyone “curate” stories from around the web by collecting posts from social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, is today announcing its first-ever syndication deal. Through a new partnership with popular news reader Pulse, Storify’s curated feeds will now appear within Pulse’s app, allowing readers to subscribe to curated stories from a number of sources… → Read More

August 8th, 2011

Curation Tool Storify Partners With MSNBC’s Breaking News For Sourced News Content

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As you may know, content curation platform Storify, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall, brings together Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, videos and more from social networking sites to create a realtime view into a story or issue. Today, the startup is announcing a first of its kind partnership with Breaking News, an MSNBC-owned Twitter handle and web site for realtime updates on news… → Read More

June 6th, 2011

Two Hours Before Opening, The WWDC 2011 Line Was Already 4 Blocks Long

Excited about Apple’s developer conference, are we? According to Storify founder Xavier Damman, the line for WWDC 2011 was already 4 blocks long at 6:15 AM.

That’s almost two hours before the doors open and nearly four hours until the keynote session.

Damman has a video to prove it: (after the jump) → Read More

February 3rd, 2011

Storify Raises $2M From Khosla Ventures To Blend Social Media With Storytelling

Now more than ever, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are a integral part of real-time storytelling and journalism. Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall, Storify debuted its content curation platform that brought together Tweets, Facebook Status Updates, videos and more from social networking sites to create a realtime view into a story or issue. Today, the startup is announcing… → Read More

September 27th, 2010

There Are Stories Out There On Twitter, Flickr, YouTube — Build Them With Storify

The main reason I love services like Tumblr and Posterous is that they make personal blogging simple. While you certainly still can write long-winded pieces about whatever you want, you can also just use a bookmarklet or email to send in individual pieces of content quickly. Storify seems like it could be the next step in that evolution.

The new services, launching today in beta at TechCrunch→ Read More