New York-based Thumbstacks is a bare bones but functional application that allows users to build presentations online and present them via a permanent URL.
It will be hard to displace PowerPoint as the de facto tool to build presentations, but SlideRocket is a great alternative, especially because users don't have to deal with incompatible file formats and different versions of Office.
The company recently added the ability to edit PowerPoint files on an iPad, but you can't build a presentation from scratch.
In other words, there is no plan to build Windows Presentation Foundation into Live Desktop but every intention of a Silverlight-only implementation.
After that, four potential students are brought together and given 45 minutes to build a presentation for something, which is designed to test their ability to cooperate.
It's ironic that Reber, who joined Microsoft along with the rest of the Wunderlist team when the startup was acquired, left the mothership rather than potentially trying to either build another presentation tool within Microsoft, or moving to PowerPoint to work on updating that product.
Instead, it adds the interactivity to existing presentation formats; many users still build their presentations in PowerPoint, then upload and share them on Zeetings.
Not to get too technical, but the site was built with Flash technology, which, among other things, allows Internet sites to build multimedia presentations.
