Online presentation sharing website authorSTREAM has launched a marketplace for PowerPoint templates and diagrams where different templates providers are offering high quality templates and diagrams at very competitive prices. Any template or diagram costs just $3.99 in comparison to stand alone templates websites where this price varies from $9 to $300.
Currently the marketplace has 60,000 professionally designed slides under more than 40 categories which means there is a template for all the occasions and business needs. With this launch authorSTREAM wants to bring PowerPoint templates industry together at one platform thus providing more business opportunities to template companies and high quality affordable templates to presentation creators. On the lines of iStockphoto if authorSTREAM extends this marketplace to individual template designers who today have no way to showcase and sell their PowerPoint templates, that would be a game changer and win-win for everyone involved.
World’s second largest online presentation sharing website authorSTREAM, today, launched a new presentation embed which can automatically decide on the fly as to which player to show to your blog readers. On flash devices, a flash player capable of playing animation, transitions and audio is rendered while viewers of non flash devices like iPad see a HTML player which sans animation and sound but displays text and images.
authorSTREAM has created it’s own niche as a presentation player which replicates slide show experience online by retaining the basic elements of a PowerPoint like animations, transitions and sound.
Below is complete press release from authorSTREAM:
authorSTREAM, an online presentation-sharing platform, has just released Dynamic Embed, a new feature that works smoothly with all flash and non-flash devices, thereby empowering blog and website owners by relieving them of the former hassle of reformatting their presentations for multiple PowerPoint-sharing platforms. Even more, it offers the best possible viewing experience for users of blogs and websites, resulting in satisfied site visitors that will return again and again.
With Dynamic Embed, bloggers and website owners no longer have to modify their presentations to suit the needs of various viewing platforms, because they can easily embed their presentations in a way that can be viewed on all devices—including flash devices like personal computers and laptops, as well as non-flash devices like iPhones and iPads. In addition, this intelligent embed automatically detects whether a viewer is using a flash-supported device or a non-flash-supported device and then renders a compatible presentation, without any need for manual formatting. Dynamic Embed also supports animations, transitions, sounds, rehearsed timings, and other special effects on flash devices like computers and laptops.
Harman Singh, CEO of authorSTREAM says, “This will have far-reaching benefits for bloggers and website owners, who earlier had to sacrifice animations and other multimedia effects from their presentation so that it met the requirements of online sharing platforms. The bloggers [and website owners] were left with no option but to choose static presentation output on their blogs and websites, as it could be viewed on all devices. Not anymore with Dynamic Embed.”
Users of Dynamic Embed can easily access the feature from an authorSTREAM tab conveniently located next to the uploaded presentation. From there, users can even customize the feature with their preference of color theme, border color, embed size, border size, and more, giving their presentations a unique appearance.
About authorSTREAM: With more than 4 million registered users and 5 million monthly visitors, authorSTREAM is the second largest slide-sharing platform. Launched in 2007, it is a free online community that gives members access to thousands of presentations on hundreds of subjects. With authorSTREAM, you can upload your PowerPoint presentations for free and share them with your friends, students, colleagues, and peers across the globe.
