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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41Both out, Keynote in.
- 0gleth0rpe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Agree, this flash based crap is slow, looks awful and seems to have focused on those awful transitions everyone hates rather than helping getting a message through.
Keynote seems to get "it" - jdb252, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Why do people have such a hardon for knocking PowerPoint? It's always come through for me, and I know my experience isn't unique.
PowerPoint is, to this day, one of the best programs Microsoft offers. - sych0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Props for not calling it a "POWER POINT KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!"
- DanAtkinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Where is the disclaimer for this which says:
"This article was brought to you by the people at Spresent"? - willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Its not powerpoint in and of itself.
Its the result of powerpoint.
Once upon a time you could have meeting and share useful information. Now meetings are mind numbing and have negative value because people spend more time distilling things for powerpoint than focusing on the objective, sharing information. - MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"Google Should buy This Service!"
You should STFU. - utcursch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I prefer ZohoShow. No Flash, only AJAX, uses S5 format.
Login as Demo user:
http://show.zoho.com/Home.do?ticket=showdemoticket
Sample presentation:
http://show.zoho.com/public/arvindnatarajan/Zoho_Plugin_and_API - cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Nice so long as you can save the final file, the last thing I want to do is go into an office to do a presentation and have to depend on their Internet pipe, and my access to it.
In all reality I agree with the movement to simplify overhead slides in presentations. I convinced a co-worker to try using black text on a white background with no animations and simple transitions, and limit her headings. The result? It was a hit, she had people walking up and thanking them for giving a presentation rather than just reading from her presentation. - danmed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7does that login box remind anyone else of something......?
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"It's a completely undifferentiated clone of Powerpoint with absolutely nothing new to offer," said the chronic troll who has never used Keynote.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm certain I'm going to be dugg down for this by twitch fingers, but I'll have to admit that Powerpoint 2007 focuses on a lot of these issues, as a result its, and I never thought I'd say this, absolutely gorgeous.
It seriously feels like a Steve Jobs Presentation Generator, complete with mirroring reflecting effects, image handling, great looking templates, all at the click of a button. They've even got the transitions down and a lot of the fonts are finally done right.
I'm almost certain that when Office 2007 finally replaces Office 2003 on the whole, many people will see the huge difference and laugh at all these digg articles.
On the whole, this site is a Powerpoint 2003 killer, but it has nothing on 2007. As a Mac User as well, I might even say that 2007 does things in many ways better than Keynote. - ionut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Google
- sonycam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This looks terrible.
Each page (slide) looks like it was created with really bad HTML. It's cool that it's free and it'll probably be useful to some people, but I'll stick to powerpoint. - webtech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6for more + cool example, go here:
http://go2web2.blogspot.com/2006/12/powerpoint-out-spresent-in.html - digitalpencil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is just a flash carousel template with some added txt-roll AS. Nothing new and not even a particularly impressive aesthetic.
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'll stick with Powerpoint thanks.
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I'm sorry but more ghastly animations in presentations? No Thanks:
https://www.spresent.com/html/presentations/Animated%20Headlines.html - Lion9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For anyone thats interested. Sun microsystems offers a bunch of 100% free "office" programs. Collectively known as "Open Office".
Their version of PP is called Impress and it does a wonderful job in my opinion.
http://www.openoffice.org/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Powerpoint kills data and brains.
So does Flash (use open formats: plain video or SVG (http://svg.startpagina.nl))
Just use S5 (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) or Slidy(http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1)) and don't throw away important semantics - wilhoitm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Flash is proprietary, it would be better if it was all in DHTML & SVG.
- Datrio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's Flash, and Google doesn't use Flash in its tools, only JavaScript. That's why I won't digg it. Zoho and Thumbstacks are the closest, but they don't offer the most important - PowerPoint fileformat support.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Powerpoint OUT! KEYNOTE in!
- kidhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is a pretty lame app.
- EntropyFan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Quix,
forget the trolls, stop being a zealot. I do in fact use both Keynote and PP, and only a mindless fanboy could praise one over the other.
The last presentation I had to suffer through was done in Keynote; the presenter read the slides, word for word. Could have saved us all a trip and just emailed the stupid thing to us.
There is no tool known to business that can save a meeting from a bad presenter. - jarofclay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No keyboard access = no accessibility = lame indeed.
- sathishcj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Google Finance, Google videos both use flash (though getting by videos without using flash is going to be difficult)
- blindpyro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, how blatant can you get. :(
- skara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I suppose that all you have digg this story, you have not see yet the Powerpoint 2007 :-)
- DevlinD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yup thats what I thought
- nrvous250gt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Does this program come with a dose of Dramamine?
- nbcivic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lol, i thought about typing in my gmail account. hah!
- Fokuss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes...you can seemingly do more animations and such with this app, but overall it looks terrible. The site has horrid examples. If you were a professional trying to make a presentation for a worthy client you would have to do alot better than this.
check out http://www.presentationzen.com for some excellent info about how to really make your presentations great. - magicmarc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks as if they really do want Googles attention, youtube integration and that. Login box style etc.
- scottschiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The login box is similar, but Google doesn't typically use tables for layout, put their content in iframes, and the kicker, block right-clicking with a "function disabled" alert (on the outer "main" frame, anyway.) Kinda web 1997 style, in my humble opinion. ;)
Code nitpicking aside, I imagine the product may actually be useful in the right hands. Flash can do animation and scalable presentation well; vectors can be a good thing. - posure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sorry but this app looks pretty *****. There are much better presentation solutions out there on the web that do a much better job and don't even use Flash.
- dep01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The examples on that site (in the gallery) simply BLOW.
- imitrust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There was some horrible example presentations in the example sections. PowerPoint should be an animation-free zone unless you are hiding something
- seweso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, this is very lame.
- Saiing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Considering what Flash is capable of these days, that's one of the poorest uses of the technology I've ever seen. Google would just laugh at it.
- legoman31245, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The login box looks eerily like Google's login box...
- pintong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Spresent" - Say it, don't spray it.
- adriantr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone find it strange that the login box looks suspiciously Google like?? Still its not Google.... its not styled like Google apart from the login box.
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1items in powerpoint work in the same way as layers - unless you're talking layers in a photoshop / premier type way - in that you can change the ordering of things. Have you tried playing with powerpoint producer? http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/prodinfo/default.mspx
- rayishu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Im looking for a very heavy duty presentation program that will give me the control to do things like the sony e3 keynote i can make all my movies in my other programs i just need to be able to composite all this together in some presentation program, powerpoint doesnt give me this control because it doesnt support layers
- ioannusdeverani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oops, you're right.
- bugninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How about just using PowerBullet
http://www.powerbullet.com/ - DIGGADEEP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no digg for unnecessary google reference
- alteratti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bad use of flash. basically, it sux.
- zeiben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ummm... You ever hear of YouTube?
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