Web apps are helping storytelling evolve. Just look at howStorifyis letting journalists pull together disparate snippets of social media into a coherent tale, whileMemolanemakes it easy for anyone to browse the photos, videos and status updates that they’ve shared online. Now a new tool calledTiki-Tokihas launched from a UK-based team, allowing users to build good-looking timelines that tell multimedia stories. Journalists and teachers will find this particularly useful, but anyone who wants to build a timeline to visualise a series of events should give it a go....

While Google Maps offers its own editing tools for drawing and annotating, they’re not particularly easy to use and the printing options are limited. Stepping in to solve this problem with its own, free solution is FIND, which this week launchedPersonalise Your Map. This easy-to-use Web app lets you customise the colours of just about every element of a map and makes adding text boxes, arrows, lines and shapes much easier than the standard Google tools....

Creating a music soundtrack for a film or advert is a tricky business. No matter the budget, it’s often the very last finalized component due to the tangle of music licensing rights. And for independent filmmakers on zero budget, it can mean having to probe MySpace for free tracks from bands begging for exposure. Today,Vimeoannounced the official launch of itsMusic Store, providing Vimeo users with access to more than 45,000 tracks, browsable by various genres, tempos and moods....

Contact pages on websites are not very interesting, usually containing a few sentences and a ‘contact us’ box. HoweverFormslya service that lets you create feature-rich contact pages is here and it boasts that its ” a contact us page to end all others.” It allows site builders to create a page that contains detailed information about their business, with the option of adding features such as a Google Map view and providing driving instructions....

StoryMakeris an iOS app that lets you create avatars of your own and weave a story with those characters. Before unleashing the inner writer/director, you will have to create a character first. The gender of the character can be male or female and the app has all kinds of accessories for both the genders (cross dressers rejoice!). From the menu bar at the top, start building the characters from the face....