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office is dead? #4: Thumbstacks.com

Posted on | July 21, 2006 | 1 Comment

Thumbstacks was one of the first web-apps for building simple presentations online. since its review on TechCrunch in march 2006, the AJAX-application hasn’t received any of the announced updates, leading to the conclusion that Thumbstack is a prove-of-concept currently in hibernation.

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the featurelist includes text-boxes which can be moved and formatted freely, bulletlists and enumerations, image-import and template-slides (=content-elements which are automatically displayed on every slide). moreover, Thumbstacks offers two gimmicks: the flickr-integration, which included my images in slides without even entering my flickr-credentials (using the browser-cookies) works great. the google-maps plugin is a nice but rather useless idea, as I wasn’t able to customize the displayed map-snippet by entering coordinates or searching for non-US places. unlike many other office web-apps, Thumbstacks offers decent print-functionality. on the downside, it lacks any import or export-features.

(read my other articles on office-is-dead)

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One Response to “office is dead? #4: Thumbstacks.com”

  1. nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » Preezo: online presentation builder
    October 12th, 2006 @ 2:07 pm

    [...] in the mist of office 2.0, TechCrunch reports on Preezo, an online presentation-builder similar to Thumbstacks. the creation of one-man-army Jason Roberts, Preezo tries to emulate Microsoft Powerpoint’s user interface as closely as possible. can’t say much on the application, since Preezo is in closed beta right now (screenshot courtesy of TechCrunch). [...]

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