Comments on: Friday Roundup: On IBM, Microsoft, SaaS and filmloop.com

By: james governor

james governor — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:56:47 +0000

thanks for the comments guy. makes sense. i must admit i havent been playing with it much as yet

By: Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:44:23 +0000

RE:

why not a powerpoint replacement, augmenting the Lessig Method (death to bullet points)?

First, I am on the board of FilmLoop because my firm, Garage Technology Ventures, invested in FilmLoop.

Having said this, I have a slightly different take on FilmLoop vis a vis PowerPoint. PowerPoint actually makes a great front end processor for good loops.

Suck your pictures into PowerPoint, add title clides and captions, perfect the order, and then “save as JPG.” This will create a folder of individual JPGs of each slide. Then drag these slides into FilmLoop.

You could use FilmLoop as a “poor man’s PowerPoint,” but you can also use PowerPoint as a pre-processor for FilmLoop.

Thanks,

Guy Kawasaki

By: Ryan Tomayko

Ryan Tomayko — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:34:10 +0000

“Ryan? So now IBM is supporting a simpler access mechanism than Java, so when is it going to simplify the data store…. ”

I guess it takes a little while for the simple bug to make its way through the toolchain.

By: john simonds

john simonds — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:00:06 +0000

ok, you got my interest up…

By: David Edmondson

David Edmondson — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:38:42 +0000

The difficulty with filmloop is highlighted in your comments: “…all I really have done is downloaded it.” Why should I have to download a player? It would be more interesting if the player was coded in flash, or something.