FlashXP

A part of our business for the last 5 years has been developing technology for Breeze like live online presentations. Starting from a Powerpoint presentation, using Java, HTML, WMA, throwing in audio streaming, q&a sessions, questionaires etc. These are expensive, high end custom events for large corporates who can afford spending lots of $$$ for a 2hr broadcast.

The reason I mention this is that a couple of years back we started a project to make a cheaper more self service like product for volume use based on Flash, a lot of work was done, swf generators, audio recording/editing, chat system, powerpoint addins etc. and we even got as far as commercial demos which were generally well received but Breeze came along and we felt there wasn't really a market for two such similar products so one thing led to another and the project got mothballed.

Well we have been looking over the code recently and thinking of what we can do with the technology. One way or another the technology is going to get used somewhere. We dont really want to try and do a "Breeze" but we wonder whether there is an interest in a very low end quick and simple product. We are not totally convinced at the moment that there is a viable "product" here.

We haven't really made our minds up whether to offer a black box version to end users or to componentise it and market it to developers as a super slideshow viewer.

Because we needed to generate feedback forms or questionaires on the fly in Flash from xml, the technology may also have an application for elearning.

At this stage one thought is we might just take the viewer and the swf generator and package them together in a free beta and see what people do with it.

Not sure where were really headed on this but if you spot something here that you have an interest in then why not drop me a line at robert.edgar@epresenterplus.com , any thoughts or ideas are welcome!