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Showing posts with label storify. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storify. Show all posts
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Storify: Just another social media content aggregator?
Web surfing has always been a great way of ending up in a new place you didn't expect to be in. I started here:
1. Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year
which led me to here:
2. Express
which finally led me to here:
3. Storify
This is a pretty nerdy path, I admit, but I am interested in how programming technologies such as Javascript - that have been around for a while, and have not always been looked so favourably on - now seem to be more central to the development of the web, and HTML5.
Anyway, I ended up at Storify which is a kind of social media story aggregating tool. Why the heck would one need one of those? I am not sure at the moment but it was extremely intuitive to use and I couldn't resist giving it a spin around the block. Here's an embed from my first try out:
1. Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year
which led me to here:
2. Express
which finally led me to here:
3. Storify
This is a pretty nerdy path, I admit, but I am interested in how programming technologies such as Javascript - that have been around for a while, and have not always been looked so favourably on - now seem to be more central to the development of the web, and HTML5.
Anyway, I ended up at Storify which is a kind of social media story aggregating tool. Why the heck would one need one of those? I am not sure at the moment but it was extremely intuitive to use and I couldn't resist giving it a spin around the block. Here's an embed from my first try out:
Labels:
HTML5,
Javascript,
social media,
storify,
storify.com,
web design,
webdev
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