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Cube got you down? Listen to a Movie!


Listen To A Movie is a website designed solely for the purpose of listening to your favorite movies and TV shows. The site contains a pretty substantial collection of low-quality audio files for popular movies and TV shows that can be listened to for free using the sites built-in audio player. Clips can be paused, fast-forwarded and rewound to get to your favorite parts, or you can scroll through parts that translate much better when you can see them. You can also comment on your favorite movies, read small plot outlines, and of course purchase the DVD.

Designed for "the cubicle workers of the world," the player can be quickly put in "stealth mode" which disguises it as an excel spreadsheet when you boss walks by. While the excel sheet is still blatantly an explorer window that says "Listentoamovie" on it, you could fool the less observant passerby. This isn't exactly the best way to "see" a movie for the first time, but for things like episodes of The Simpsons or movies you may have seen a thousand times, it can be a great way to pass the afternoon in the ol' cube.

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Exclaimable! Online social media content creation

Exclaimable

Exclaimable! is a brand new social media service that empowers users to create online media in the moment, then easily share it by embedding it on their own site, or sharing the URL, much like YouTube. Exclaimable uses Flash to allow users to create video, audio, drawings or simple text posts, all in an extremely intuitive and easy-to-use way. For example, all you need to create video on the site is a webcam and microphone – all of the configuration is done by the site.

ExclaimableThere are no file uploads to Exclaimable; the point of the site is to have users create their content right on the site. This pared-down approach makes Exclaimable both approachable and addictive. It's fun to set about the task of creating a new piece of online media, be it a picture or video, and drop the pressure of having to make it "perfect". Exclaimable lets you make something that's "good enough" right now.

The embedding feature enables any of the content types to be added to a user's web page, be it a blog, myspace account, or static html page. This could enable some users that might otherwise be intimidated by video editing tools to be able to create a video blog, simply by using Exclaimable's video capture and hosting functionality, and embedding the videos in their own blog.

There's also a content browser where you can view everyone's submissions filtered by medium and category, and rate them.

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