Storify , a tool that enables professional and citizen journalists to tell cohesive stories by dragging and dropping articles, tweets, Flickr photos and online videos onto a single, embeddable page, has raised $2 million in its first significant round of funding. The entire $2 million came from Khosla Ventures, a firm that has also made substantial investments in well-known social applications such as Hunch and Slide ( acquired by Google last summer). Storify has a staff of four and plans to use the funds to hire designers and Javascript developers to further build out the product, which has been in private beta since launching in September. The tool has been used by bloggers, PR professionals and major news organizations like NPR, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times , to compile stories. The Post , for instance, used it to collect political candidates’ recession and concession tweets in the 2010 midterm elections, which it then embedded on its website. More than 10,000 stories have been created using Storify thus far, attracting more than 4.5 million views across the web. No concrete business model has yet emerged
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