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premium Storify!  brands can customize it Real-time updates: Publishers can now live-blog using Storify complete with dynamic, live updating of all stories. Custom story display: Ability to customize how Storify works on a publisher's site with full CSS styling options and unrestricted API access Enterprise-level support: Storify is giving priority technical support to VIP customers either by email or phone and an "enhanced Service Level Agreement" Custom sources: Publishers can now mix their own content, including posts, photos, or even comments into their Storify content by creating a custom source Private stories: Storify now allows publishers to share stories privately within an organization

Really cool social storytelling tool. You map life experiences to their respective times and places, and other users can either follow your whole story or search for stories linked to a specific time or place.

Breakdown of various ARGs and such, discussion of blurring reality and fiction. Net point: people want stories that allow them to play along, but that is not the same thing as convincing them that the story is true. Ideally, they at least suspect it is not. "Instead of demanding that people believe their lie, they dreamt up a world people were desperate to be a part of." (of Cloverfield marketing)

"The video walls tell the Lacoste story, while promoting merchandise through the evolution of the product. The content tells the brand story from conception, to the first clothing line and materials used, and segues to current days where there are many colors available based on the original concept of René Lacoste. The content was developed by Lacoste and is updated remotely by Lacoste headquarters."

"Found at CNN.com/Trends, the section is a frequently updated countdown of the most popular stories on the web. A large CNN article anchors each spot, while a bar to the right and a drop-down "see more" option augment that with related news and analysis from other sources. "What we realized as we went about building this is that when a big story comes out, you don't just read a single source anymore," Zite CEO Mark Johnson told Mashable during a demo of the new section. "We want to facilitate that process in the product itself, so we thought why not use some of Zite's technology to do that?""

But if we have learned anything in the last few years, it is that traditional media are now only in charge of part of the story. There is a paucity of facts and an excess of processing power because everyone with a keyboard is theoretically a creator and distributor of content. Most of those efforts begin from behind a firmly established battle line, then row backward to find the facts that they need. Was that a dark spot on the back of George Zimmerman's head in the grainy police video, or evidence of a beat-down? We retweet and "like" what we agree with and dismiss the rest. As if the overheated cable news debate weren't enough, social media are fueling the story with misinformation, along with incendiary calls to action. There is a Twitter account called "@killzimmerman" that suggested George Zimmerman needed to be "shot dead in the street." On Twitter, the movie director Spike Lee passed on what he thought was Mr. Zimmerman's address, but it was wrong and an elderly couple was forced to flee from their home. And what if Mr. Lee had gotten it right? (Mr. Lee has since apologized and reached a settlement with the couple.)

Last but certainly not least, Facebook's recently released News Feed targeting options are delivering significantly better CTR. Mobile ads received CTRs 14 times that of desktop ads, on average. The desktop category, which includes News Feed ads and the ads on the right-hand side, saw the lowest CTR at 0.083 percent. The mobile News Feed, by contract, saw an average CTR of 1.140 percent. How does this compare with Twitter? The smaller social network saw an average CTR of 0.266 percent. This would indicate Facebook's mobile ad CTR is four times that of Twitter's. That's impressive. Other highlights from the report include: Sponsored Stories continue to perform better than standard Facebook Ads: Analysis of 13.8 billion impressions in the first and second quarters of 2012 shows Sponsored Story ads receiving 53 percent higher CTR than standard ads. Cost per fan also saw major improvements with 39 percent savings.

I was surprised by this when the story broke last Friday. I had thought of the entire Fuel Band ecosystem as a success (without any actual data to support this thought though;-) I wonder what the "real" story is.

Middle Men, based on the true story of (as the tagline puts it) the guys who "brought the XXX to the WWW." used in daily 6.21

news site that integrates community bloggers, facebook, twitter, flickr, foursquare, allows crowdsourcing of stories- readers can add missing info, feeds specified based on readers location

augmented reality app that will superimpose ghost images of the twin towers into the NY skyline. people can then share the image and a story on facebook and twitter.

read short stories based on your delay time

"Home of the Future" stuff- touchscreen device that shows power usage among appliances and shuts off power draining electronics once you vacate the premises :-) 

Social researcher Mark McCrindle estimates about one in three Australians in their mid-30s has a tattoo. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/fashion/im-inked-therefore-i-am-why-tatts-have-left-a-mark-on-gen-y/story-e6frfn7i-1225945591327#ixzz14E7Yn3e2

ar app that tells you stories about the things around you

It's Kia's attempt to create the world's smallest stop motion film, challenging the work from Nokia's N8 stop motion short. This time though, the stop motion film has been hand drawn on over 900 fake nails with 1,200 odd bottles of polish used to create the story.

Pretty interesting look at sponsored story performance on Facebook.

"This is a story about devices: NPD figures that 10 percent of homes now have at least one Internet-enabled TV (though I bet that only a minority of them are actually plugged into the Web), and we're seeing a steady increase in the use of Web-video peripherals, like Blu-ray players, Apple TVs, Microsoft Xbox 360s. And it's also about content: NPD says the most popular service for Web on TV viewers is Netflix, with 40 percent of connected TV watchers using the service."