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How SlideRocket plans to make money

How SlideRocket plans to make moneyWhy?After reading about the product I'm left with a "so what" and "why" would I want it feeling. I can see some niches where it might fit, but with the exception of those niches, why would you want to be on a monthly subscription...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, nich, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

How SlideRocket plans to make money

Unlike so many misguided Web 2.0 startups, SlideRocket is going to ask its users to pay to use its Flex-based on-demand presentation application, and it plans a potentially lucrative add-on marketplace too. I got an exclusive sneak preview of its pricing plans. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Asset, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Billing, Analytics, Aria Systems Inc., SlideRocket, Mitch Grasso, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Planning, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-24

SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in funding

SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in fundingLooks kewlhow is this different from power point or flash?I gather its more user friendly. Is it also platform independent?RE: SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 millionHey Ryan, your link for sliderocket invites...

Tags: SlideRocket, presentation application

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

SlideRocket - the king of presentation applications - raises $2 million in funding

Update: Sorry about the link. Fixed. SlideRocket Screenshots is on the short list of my favorite Flex applications and it sounds like TechCrunch is pretty impressed. I've been following SlideRocket's development since almost the beginning and I'm a huge fan of what founder Mitch Grasso has been...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, SlideRocket, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-19

SlideRocket

SlideRocket is a flex-based presentation application. View this screenshot gallery of SlideRocket. by Ryan Stewart

Tags: Application, Ryan Stewart, screenshots, sliderocket

Image galleries 2007-09-19

Nice try Google, you should have bought SlideRocket

Nice try Google, you should have bought SlideRocketPretty, I guessOf course, since there's absolutely no feature set just a TV ad it's a little hard to tell whether it has any useful features.Google, at least, has a defined set of features including file import an export. If all I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, SlideRocket, TV ad, TV, advertisement, Google Inc., software

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Nice try Google, you should have bought SlideRocket

Today is not a good day for Microsoft Office. Google released their underwhelming-yet-much-anticipated PowerPoint killer today, Presently. I checked it out but it doesn't hold a candle to SlideRocket ZDNet Gallery, a presentation application built by Mitch Grasso using Flex and Amazon's S3. One of the reasons that I like...

Tags: Google Inc., Plug-in, Presentation, SlideRocket, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Additional Resources

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

KinetiCast - online presentation and promotional tracking

Update: KinetiCast can do PowerPoint imports but you can't edit them. I was looking at the "preview" mode in the file sharing screen but when you create a presentation you can import slides from PowerPoint. With the meme about presentation tools and SlideShare yesterday I thought now...

Tags: Presentation, Presentation Creator, Productivity, Peer To Peer (P2P), AJAX, Microsoft Office, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-08

News to know: HTC Shift; Airport firmware; Microsoft mesh; Novell; VoIP

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Apple's security update breaks printer drivers, Instant Hijack component Airport firmware update enables AirDisk backups Mary Jo Foley: Whatever happened to Microsoft's 'other' mesh projects? Paula Rooney: Novell's SUSE Linux 11 to come in...

Tags: Google Inc., Novell Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Firmware, E-mail, Telephony, Hd Dvd, Printers, Productivity, VOIP, Open Source, Online Communications, Networking, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-20

SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or die

SaaS vendors, eat your own dogfood, or dieWhat's the process for creating an SLA when you use cloud infrastructure?Phil - this is really interesting on many levels, but one of the things I am wondering is how does a SaaS application provider put together an SLA for clients when they...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, SaaS CRM, SaaS company, outage

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Rich Internet application predictions for 2008

Rich Internet application predictions for 2008Google + AdobeIt would be cool to see Google and Adobe form a partnership. If Google were to provide more of their services based on Flex/AIR, I think it would be a great more forward for the web. That would really get everyone else...

Tags: web provider, rich Internet application, Rich Internet application prediction, Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

Blist - A Flex database/spreadsheet in the cloud

A little while ago Mark Hendrickson posted about Blist [Screenshot Gallery] on TechCrunch. He described it as a web-based database application and gave it a pretty good review. The Blist team is up here in Seattle and they are one of my favorite startups. As a result, when I saw...

Tags: Application, Database, Spreadsheet, Blist, Blist Team, Flex, AJAX, Productivity, Research & Development, Storage, Databases, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Business Operations, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Adobe brings Buzzword into the fold

Adobe is adding to its applications portfolio with the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity's word processor, Buzzword see previous coverage. Adobe was an investor in Virtual Ubiquity, which is a marquee application based on the company's Flash and will run on Adobe's AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime OS-independent Web platform....

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Productivity, Word Processors, Peer To Peer (P2P), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Software, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-30

EditGrid's distinctive Office 2.0 business model

EditGrid's distinctive Office 2.0 business modelPresentationsI completely agree that an online office offering has to go beyond the essentially free MSFT Office. It was the basic premise when developing SlideRocket (www.sliderocket.com) that we start with 90% of the current PPT features and add functionality that uniquely takes advantage of the...

Tags: Office 2.0 Business, EditGrid, Office 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-09-11