What Is SlideRocket?
SlideRocket is a fully featured Rich Internet Application (RIA) that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It’s offered as a service (SaaS) with a variety of prices to suit different needs including free!
What Does It Do?
SlideRocket integrates flexible authoring, intelligent asset management, secure delivery and analytics tools in a single on demand application.
SlideRocket allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, store, organize, tag and search your assets, collaborate with your colleagues, securely share your slides in person or remotely and measure the results, all in one integrated environment.
When Will SlideRocket Be Available?
SlideRocket is currently available as a private beta. You can sign up at the SlideRocket registration page and we’ll send you an invite when it becomes available to the public. We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas once you’ve taken a test drive.
How Much Does SlideRocket Cost?
SlideRocket will have a range of prices including a free account for an individual user. Official pricing will be released when we launch our first public version.
Is SlideRocket Only Available Online?
SlideRocket also comes with an offline client that let's you present without an Internet connection. You can also synchronize your presentations and take them with you.
Where Are My Assets Kept?
SlideRocket keeps your resources secure and available with the help of Amazon's S3 Internet Storage.
Should I Stop Using PowerPoint?
Weeeell...yes. We realize you probably have hours of time and resources invested in your existing slides and we want to help you get the most out of them. With the SlideRocket PowerPoint Importer you can easily ingest your existing PowerPoint decks into SlideRocket and really get them working for you with all the additional features we offer.
Ultimately we think you’re going to prefer the powerful authoring capabilities available in SlideRocket but for now rest easy in the knowledge that your existing investment is well protected.
What Operating Systems Does SlideRocket Support?
SlideRocket will run in any browser on any platform that supports Adobe's Flash Player 9 plugin. This means Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Netscape, and Opera on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
What Is A Rich Internet Application (RIA)?
It's an application that transcends the ordinary and elevates you to a plane of web application bliss. You'll know when you experience an RIA because you'll have a smile on your face, like when you use SlideRocket :-D
Don't take our word for it, you can check our answer with Adobe or Wikipedia.
What IS AIR?
AIR is Adobe's Integrated Runtime client. It allows you to take an application that historically only runs in a browser and run it on your desktop. Here's Adobe's version, and here's what Wikipedia has to say.
What Kinds of Media Does SlideRocket Support?
IMAGES
* JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
* PNG (.png)
* GIF (.gif)
FLASH
* SWF (.swf)
VIDEO
* Flash Video (.flv)
POWERPOINT
* PowerPoint deck (.ppt, .pps)
Can I use any media in my article if I write about you?
Sure! Here is a convenient zip file, complete with company logos, screenshots and media files for you to use. Of course, you are also welcome to use your own screenshots as well, to accompany your article.