[More] Presentations in 2.0

A discovery was posted to Digg a few days back that bears mentioning. It’s called Spresent. The title isn’t fancy, but it does plainly allude to the product’s purpose: presentations. If you’re one of the many people out there that want PowerPoint placed on the web for easy accessibility, with the ability to share with colleagues, however near or far they are, Spresent might be just the thing you’re looking for.

Built on Macromedia’s (now part of Adobe) ubiquitous Flash, Spresent offers many of the fundamental attributes of PowerPoint, only in a more simplistic interface. Templates are available, but don’t expect a great number of stock images to meet you at sign-in. Spresent is incredibly useful, but a masterpiece complete with an unlimited archive it is not. It’s bare bones with just the right amount of topping. No fuss. No fat. Just the stuff most people need.

You’re allowed to do as little as sketch up an idea to send to a classmate in HTML, or go the whole nine yards and paint something from scratch to professional production. All of this is done in your web browser, so even if you’re less a laptop while away from home, you can stop in at an Internet café somewhere around the globe and do what you need to get done. Of course, it’d be puzzling to find yourself unable to save the finished project to hard disk/flash drive, so rest assured, such a feature is available just as it would be in a desktop app. (You’re equally able to save projects in a virtual folder reserved for your account.)

Spresent performs ably for a beta. Tried-and-true workspaces such as PowerPoint and Keynote won’t be usurped by this young’un anytime soon, but if you don’t gots the coin for the pricy power palette out there, Spresent is definitely worth a look at.

Note: Diggers and bloggers (They’re kinda one and the same, aren’t they?) have postulated Spresent ripe for the ‘Google’ pickin’, but we won’t dare try to forecast such an event, so if the acquisition so happens to take place, we’ll report it when it happens.

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