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Social media has taken many different forms as it has expanded.  People use Twitter for text content, Vine and YouTube for video, and Instagram for photographs.  However, cool person in tech Thomas Clayton believes there is a medium that people have underutilized in social media up to now: voice.  Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly, a social network where users post short voice messages instead of videos, pictures, or statuses.  Clayton’s social network is completely mobile focused.  Bubbly doesn’t even have a basic web based counterpart to its smartphone applications.  In a way, it makes perfect sense.  Since Clayton was creating a social network based on voice communication, why not focus entirely on devices specifically built for voice communication—phones?  Clayton believes that people want to have a literal voice on social media and not just a figurative one. In past interviews, he has described his company’s service as “Twitter with a voice.”  Anyone who has trouble downloading Clayton’s app for their iPhone or Android device will need smartphone tech support. Read more »

If you’re a performer or you run a venue that hosts events, you’re well aware that audience members take countless pictures and short videos at shows.  The ubiquity mobile technology allows fans to capture performances more easily than ever.   WESAWIT is a cool product in technology that lets venues, performers or even promoters utilize this phenomenon and take advantage of all the fan-generated content recorded at shows.  WESAWIT integrates with major social websites such as Vine, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Flickr, using geo-tags to collect all the photos and videos that fans take at a particular concert or event.  Venues and performers can then take the collected content and display all of it in one place through a widget on their website.  WESAWIT automates the aggregation of publicly posted fan-generated content so venues and promoters can leverage it for their own purposes. Read more »

Keeping track of all the press your company gets can be a difficult and time-consuming task.  When you’re building a startup, you barely have time to sleep, much less analyze your company’s press and social media coverage in serious depth.  However, Matt Allison is a cool person in technology who wants to solve this problem.  Read more »