Approve.com

If you are taking a look at Zlides.com, you might want to also take a look at Approver.com. I like the collaboratively working on ideas part.

Draft Mode

I’ve been creating several Zlides Presentations in the last week and noticed a needed feature. So I’ve been working on the code to allow saving a draft mode. I’ll upload that for beta testers in the next week.

Email to a Friend

One of the proposed features of Zlides is that you can email to a friend a link to any presentation. Just got that code working and started emailing some of my friends.

Editor Improvements

Two improvements to the editor today. First, some IE bugs are gone. Second, when you add a new Zlide it immediately opens up that Zlide for editing.

Zlides logo

Scobleizer wrote up the Web 2.OV2Logo Creatr (beta) so I created two for Zlides.com.

Friends on Zlides

Last night I asked a few friends to try out Zlides.com. It will be nice to get a few people trying it who don’t think it is the best thing since slides bread. Also explained more on the home page thanks to Mike.

 

Zlides Quickstart

This  is the first Zlides presentation that I recommend you try: Zlides Quickstart. I’ll start opening up others in the coming days.

What do you think Mike?

Zlides Editor Ready

I been working on the Zlides presentation editor and finally finished it up. I’ve uploaded it and need to do some testing. I’ll be inviting a few more people to test Zlides in just a few days.

PowerPoint Import

On the flight back from the Bay Area (SFO) yesterday my fellow passenger asked if I had any plans for importing PowerPoints. No.

First, PowerPoint is more complicated than Zlides intends to be. Zlides is about keeping it simple. Your skill in using Zlides should never be a criteria in a job interview. Second, I think part of any startup, at anytime is ‘not to be everything to everybody’. This is part of the vision that you must be true to. Zlides is simple.

However, I hope to have Zlides import RSS feeds. Now is your PowerPoint is converted into RSS, now maybe Zlides will be able to import PowerPoint.

Use slides to enhance your presentation, not cripple it

Dave Taylor cites Seth Godin’s ebook and makes a pitch for skipping the slides completely “or work hard to minimize your slides.” He provides a nice simple example of a simple slide versus a multi-bullet point bonanza.

Your Home Page Is Obsolete

These are emotion words and fits in Seth's six word maximum. Good post.