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If you saw my SlideRocket Review post the other day you know that my first impressions were pretty good. I neglected to mention some of the more powerful features such as PowerPoint import and being ablet to pull in live data from Google Docs & Spreadsheets not to mention the offline client that is coming soon!
Here are some of those processes demo’d by SlideRocket.
Popular bookmarking site del.icio.us has updated their site to a sleeker version and also changed their name to delicious.com. Doesn’t sound like a big deal right? Might be for me.
I use delicious to bookmark sites and articles I think are noteworthy almost everyday. While bookmarking still works for me looks like the Wordpress plugin (Postalicious) that automatically pulls my bookmarks out and makes a post here on my site (like this one from yesterday) has stopped working. It’s generating an error now and won’t update. I haven’t really looked into it too much but if it’s not broken I find it highly coincidental to be throwing errors on the day delicious did a major change.
If I’m lucky, it’ll just start working again… if not, I’ll have to wait for an update to the Postalicious plugin. Lots of bloggers use this plugin so it shouldn’t be long before an update comes out.
Anyway, in the meantime, here’s a delicious video of the site redesign showing the transformation.
Yesterday there was a Microsoft Ad showing on my site. I captured it in the video below (chances are it’s running on the page today since I’m writing about it). It’s about their new ad campaign, The Mojave Experiment (I first mentioned Mojave in an earlier post July 25th), which takes people with negative preconceived notions about Windows Vista and lets them test out Microsoft’s new beta operating system Mojave.
The catch is… they are really testing Vista! The Mojave site has some pretty funny videos with the users bashing Vista then doing a 180 when they get to test Mojave. Microsoft has posted some really interesting before and after survey numbers from the experiment.
94% of respondents rated Mojave higher than they initially rated Vista
0% rated Mojave lower than initially rated Vista
Average pre-demo Vista score: 4.4
Average post-demo Mojave score: 8.5
It’s about time Microsoft is finally attempting to dispel the Vista sucks rumors. I’ve been using Vista for two years now (since beta 2). Ever since RC1 it’s been pretty good except for some compatibility issues. Since the RTM release though it’s been solid.
Is it too little, too late? Can Microsoft turn around the reputation the Mac commercials gave to Vista? We’ll see.
