[Philip Lelyveld comment: Actually, Levitagram - software that lets you levitate subjects in pictures - looks far more compelling than the main subject of this story - Pixotale - which lets you create a string of intersperced photos, texts, and videos to create a ‘story.’ I just bought Levitagram - $1.99 in iTunes ]
With Pixotale, the overall goal is to connect people again via these sorts of personal stories – something that’s been a bit lost in the age of social media, Mao believes. After publishing your stories, you’ll be alerted to any likes or comments from fellow app users.
The app is also designed to make creating longer-form content easier on mobile, with a simple interface for adding text, photos, a map and soon video and audio. You can tap to add elements to the story or adjust its layout on the page before publishing. You can also work on stories while offline, and save them to publish later.
The end results are polished, professional creations you can then share to other social networks, like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and more. The stories are also viewable via the web, which you can seehere, here, here or here, for example.
See the full story here: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/02/former-microsoft-engineers-launch-pixotale-a-social-networking-app-for-visual-storytelling/