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SlideRocket AIR Presentation Application Moves into Public Beta
The online office market continues to heat up. Everyone wants a piece of the Microsoft Office pie from Zoho to Google to SlideShare along with hundreds of other startups. SlideRocket is a Powerpoint replacement and is moving into public beta today.
SlideRocket launched in private beta in March and you can check out initial reviews on Techcrunch and ZDNet. SlideRocket offers free and paid versions of their presentation application. Phil Wainewright notes regarding an additional component to their business model:
One innovative extra that will help SlideRocket make money is its plan to offer a marketplace of data and asset services for paid use in presentations — for example, market sizing data and other material from analyst firms, or stock images from photo libraries. It’s the sort of money-making add-on that Microsoft ought to have done long ago with PowerPoint — it’s the classic ’software plus services’ play.
As startups continue to realize that there’s money in them hills – those hills being small to enterprise businesses, we will slowly see a shift to useful utilities instead of yet another social network.
Interesting…I followed the sign-up process but can’t log in yet. I wonder if their servers are overloaded. It looks like an interesting app. though.
– Brad
Ah. Their servers must be busy. Just got in to the account.
– Brad
Hi All,
Due to the overwhelming response today, our servers were running with a 20 minute backlog. We are really sorry about the inconvenience and our engineering team have since been able to resolve the issue. Please know that your new accounts have been created and we encourage you to try again now.
Over the past few months we have added a ton of new functionality and look forward to hearing the communities thoughts. We are really excited about our product, and are going to continue adding enhancements and fixes. Please let us know what you think!!
Hi Badi,
No worries, I got in yesterday and must say the application looks slick. I can’t wait to try it out for my next presentation :)
– Brad