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Everybody loves a good, riveting speech that inspires people and brings them to action.  Many Internet users often spend significant amounts of time sifting through other content on streaming video websites and even famous quote databases to find inspiring speeches.  However, there is a cool product on the web now that can help people avoid wasting time and effort searching through the Internet for speeches.  Sweetspeeches is a website that catalogs speeches and makes them easily searchable and available to the public.  SweetSpeeches doesn’t stick to a single category of speeches—such as sports or politics—instead it compiles different speeches from all possible sources.  The site then categorizes each one for easier search functionality on the site.  Users can browse through categories such as athletics, movies, politics, scholars, inventors, musicians, and others to find speeches for every occasion, whether someone wants a new perspective on computer repair technology or a rousing speech about combatting injustice.  SweetSpeeches is trying to make it easy for people to find the right words to motivate themselves in any situation with the help of the Internet and modern technology. Read more »

Video content on the web is in abundance these days thanks to user-generated content on sites like YouTube and DailyMotion.  While there is much high quality entertainment available on these sites, there is still a lack of high quality How-to video on the web.  Even for subjects where there is a significant amount of videos, such as home computer repair, the vast majority of content is low quality with bad sound, bad video and no production value.  There isn’t a convenient and free space for people to access high quality how-to videos made by experts on the Internet.  Cool product Grokker is changing that by building a large video database that exclusively contains expert how-to videos for anyone interested.  Read more »

When Instagram launched in 2010, it changed the way many people approached mobile photography.  While anyone could snap pictures just for themselves and their close friends to see, Instagram offered users a simplified way to make artistic-looking photos that people wanted to share publicly.  Instagram’s filters gave people a sense of performance when taking and uploading their pictures and allowed many people without photo editing skills to feel like pros with their smartphone camera.  Magisto is a smartphone app that wants to recreate this experience on mobile, but this time for video rather than photography.  Magisto is a cool product that lets you upload your mobile videos to its app and choose a “theme” to apply to them.  Each theme dictates an automated editing process, which gives your video a more artistic look.  Themes add different visual filters to your video, not unlike Instagram does with photos, but also actually edits the video itself to make it more dynamic. Those who have have trouble recording videos with their mobile devices can get smartphone IT support to help them with their camera. Read more »

Digital distribution is a growing standard for the release of video content.  It is becoming common for consumers to forgo disc-based media altogether and view all their movies, TV shows, and other videos via web streaming or file downloads.  This market shift has the potential to give filmmakers and artists far more power and control over their own work’s distribution.  Cool product in technology VHX helps to facilitate that shift of power with their digital distribution platform, which erases any middlemen between filmmakers and their audience.  VHX users receive all the tools necessary to create their own customizable website where they can sell and distribute their movie both through streaming and digital downloads.  VHX lets artists distribute their video in multiple formats that are cross-device compatible so they can reach as many customers as possible.  VHX’s avoidance of DRM practices also prevents frustrated consumers from calling remote computer support services because their video won’t play on their device.  Filmmakers who want to give their customers complete flexibility and have a direct channel for selling their product will probably find VHX very useful. Read more »

Video content is a great marketing tool and can be a very engaging experience for users.  However, video content can also be also limited in its appeal.  Users who are hearing impaired or who do not speak the language used in the video are all immediately eliminated from experiencing a video’s content.  This is fine if a company aims its video at a small community or niche audience, but those who want to appeal to people in a global way are stuck.  Cool person in technology David Orban wants to solve this dilemma with his company Dotsub.  Orban is the CEO of Dotsub, who provides companies with the tools and software to caption and translate their online videos for wider user engagement.  Orban’s company provides their software as a service for businesses that want their video content to be accessible to a wider audience.  Users who have trouble operating the software should get remote computer support to help them resolve any issues. Read more »

People spend thousands of hours watching web video content, but finding videos specifically tuned to your tastes is not always an easy task.  Video websites like Youtube and Hulu have vast arrays of video content and while they do their best to organize it for their users, it can be overwhelming to sift through everything on your own.  Reece Pacheco is a cool person in technology who believes you shouldn’t need computer support just to navigate video content on the web.  To help, he has created Shelby.tv, a video curation service that creates a personalized “channel” of web video content for you based on what you find most important.  Pacheco wants to create a one-stop space for users to view and discover all of the web’s video content.  Pacheco created Shelby.tv to simplify and personalize the process of finding and watching videos online so viewers can simply focus on enjoying content rather than sifting through endless options on a video service.  Read more »