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- BobMysterioso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+181. Make fancy website using mostly white
2. Announce replacement of dominant MS product
3. Use buzzwords to impress the ladies - +2 points for AJAX reference
4. Make sure domain ends in r - omit the dreaded e
4b (optional) - make extensive use of fading - background, links, text, everything is better faded
5. Profit!
In all honesty, this is a neat flash app, quite impressive I think. But its not AJAX from what I can tell, and it can't be a competitor to PowerPoint for a very long time. That being said - I could see some uses for it especially if you needed to make a presentation but didn't have PowerPoint. - DapperScoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Why did they spell the name like that? Whenever I see a new web app ending with r with the preceding vowel removed, I assume it will be some sort of Flickr application. It's like an unwritten trademark.
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Everybody, Openoffice.org's "Impress" is a great powerpoint clone that can import .ppt and export .swf
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yeah, this is a very rudimentary Powerpoint wannabe. There are JS-based solutions that do more than this.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's the newst and coolst thing to do
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It seems pretty rudimentary to me, although mainly of the incipient variety. At the moment it's extremely basic, but it has potential.
- glafira, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would never leave my presentation in the hands of a Beta program in my browser that constantly crashes. Unless one of these "AJAX appz" actually sports a Autosave feature, I am not using it.
- apzdsx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These names are getting annoying. Can't they be original? Seems all you have to do today is get a word ending with a vowel and R and take out the vowel. INSTANT COOL!
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Keynote in iWork can output flash, pdf, etc for presentations. http://www.apple.com/iwork/ And for $80 that's a lot cheaper than MS Office.
Empressr is interesting because it is web-based, but I'm not sure what the value in that would be, yet. - fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google buy them? When there are so many better options available that use JS instead of Flash? When have you ever seen Google go with the Flash option over the JS option?
- mikaelc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Take a look at their FAQ, its usage is limited and it will cost money:
for the moment you can create and save only FIVE presentations. ("...In the future, however, you will be able to purchase additional storage and hosting services...")
These new web2.0 apps needs to create some kind of cash flow - either by showing ads or by charging the user directly.
BTW, OpenOffice Impress is free, and while not 'web2.0' nor 'AJAX' it is quite usable (especially since v2) - fatas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its a race on to get bought by Google.
- brianjking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Currently I utilize the OpenOffice scripting abilities to comple this task to export to a series of .jpg files.
Although my issue of fonts not existing on the Linux system that performs this task making the jpg files sometimes rather awkward.
Any suggestions? - artman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3UN-Empressiv
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Now we can get working on the SVG version.
Still cool though. - babelfishi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Wow, this stuff is impressive! If you just do some simple powerpoint tasks and don't want to spend money on iWork or PowerPoint, this is a really great web app. The UI is very nicely done, and its free! (so far) It would be great if you can download and use it whenever you need it.
- mikaelc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Surprisingly, it contains AJAX (+2 points). Take a look at: http://www.empressr.com/Includes/js/editorFunction.js which certainly loads XML from javascript (via ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") on IE, and 'document.implementation.createDocument' on other browsers).
It seem that some functionality is handled by javascript (i.e. the menus at top and setting the background color), while the main views are Flash.
Wonder why they didnt implement it all in Flash? - smithco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with Joeyjoe. I just want something that can has text, pictures and maybe some embeddable media, on slides, with a bit of template styling for colours and fonts. Most of all rest of the features in PowerPoint are the things that will make your presentation bad.
- Brutal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Goddamnit I'm tired of these stupid Flickr-ish appnames.
It should have ended with Flickr. Come up with something new, will ya? - Vade101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is also a similar, and from what I'm told very impressive, online powerpoint replacement at:
http://www.hellofabric.com/
although its certainly not free, might be worth a look if you're in the business. - starsky51, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*edit: damn this was in reply to artman*
you've hit that middle ground where your joke wasn't bad enough to be modded down but not good enough to be modded up.
Well done! - spikespeigel42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why are there so many stupid comments on digg? I mean, i love the fact that its driven by people, but you would think that they would block people that say crap like this.
- ENowIT, on 01/05/2009, -0/+0Example of Thickbox and iSpring - taking a powerpoint presentation and converting it to Flash using iSpring then displaying it using Thickbox.
http://www.enowit.com/page.php?page_type_id=1 (Click on the video icons for example)
eNowIt.com -Mobile Marketing Made Easy! - r00ts, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Its value (or novelty) is in the fact that it's flash BASED, not that it can output flash files.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'd argue being simpler that PPT is a huge feature. Most of the 'features' in PPT are bloated, useless bells and whistles that only make presentations MORE annoying to sit through.
- mutant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Techcrunch.com --- ***** site leech of digg.com
Get a ***** life, start linking to the sites and not your own ad revenue based site. - czgaljic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Empresser's benefits are that it allows a user to email his/her presentations to clients/viewers and is available for viewing 24hrs a day. The presentations are hosted enabling all updates made effective instantaneously. All viewers who access the presentations will then see the latest updates. This eliminates sending an updated .ppt file via email.
Presentations can be embedded within html pages as well , referencing the url to the presentation.
Just my opinion but seems like a good start. - mikevickrocks, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7ru·di·men·ta·ry Pronunciation Key (rd-mnt-r, -mntr) adj.
1. Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary.
2. Being in the earliest stages of development; incipient.
3. Very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige
How can it compete with PowerPoint when it only has basic features? I think that was the wrong adjective. - PicklePower, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1OpenOffice is NOT better. It's bloated and ugly. The icons are terrible. Plus, Impress doesn't use hardware accelleration or have support for multiple monitors. It definitely does not compare to 2007 Microsoft Office System. Having used both extensively, Office 2007 is very well done. OO.org had their chance to fix problems and make a better interface, but all they did was copy Office 2003's ugly interface and features (and not very well, either). I now see them copying Office 2007's features, and I hope they get sued to death for it this time.
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Keynote can also import .ppt files and export .swf files.
It's quite annoying that Keynote will only export the entire slideshow as a big swf - so if you want to export a single slide you have to copy that slide and paste it into a new document... and there is no applescript or automator hooks available to help automate that process :( but I digress... - woodcoxcb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Google has acquired a web-based Word Processing company, used that technology to further their spreadsheet project, and they've got gMail, the only thing missing to create the cheapest, smallest version of Office in a web browser would be a presentation-type program. The collaboration capabilities and simultaneous editing in Google Spreadsheet may be a little buggy, but they are incredibly useful. Google also makes compatibility with Firefox a HUGE priority. ;)
There's definitely a future in this, even if Google doesn't swallow these guys up... Either way, those guys are gonna make some serious cash... - jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3OpenOffice can also export SWF files from OO.org Impress (powerpoint clone).
- 2000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Someone is looking to get bought by Google. Nice business plan.
- simanoff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Huge value in having it online. If I can share it with others, I can give them a call and walk them through a presentation instead of signing up for one of those hugely expensive online conferencing bloating thingies. You can also email around links instead of huge bloated PowerPoint files.
- mcochran, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3The value is in being bought by Google. ;)
- buzzert, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Wow, a lot of applications are becoming web based. Does anyone remember writely.com? Combine all of these, you've got yourself a free (for now) set of office tools: online!
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1If you right click on the home page demo, it is Macromedia Flash Player! Thought this was funny. So is the program exporting Flash or SVG?
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3I don't see CSS or java making sites like this you ***** lovers!
- sirber, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1nice, didn't know!
that's what I call K1CK A$S!!! - stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -23/+1No comments, and only 32 diggs? That's weird.
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