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December 12, 2007

Zoho Show 2.0, Cleaner Look, New Features

Nick Gonzalez

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Over the past two years Zoho has launched 12 applications along with 4 utilities, nearly all with APIs. The team has shown a strong commitment to steadily improving their products, making them a compelling alternative to the incumbent, Google.

zohoscreensmall.pngThis morning they’ve released a new version of Zoho Show that cleans up the program’s interface and adds a greater array of features than Google’s Presently. Zoho Show 2.0 features:

  • New User Interface
  • 50+ Themes
  • Shapes and Symbols
  • Extensive editing support for text, images, bullets etc
  • Clip art
  • Zoho Meeting and Zoho Chat integration

Support of shapes, symbols, clip art, and a wide selection of themes are common features business users depend on in PowerPoint, but are currently lacking on Google. However, the guys from recently acquired presentation startup Zenter are certainly hard at work changing that.



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  1. Angela Hayden

    December 12th, 2007 at 6:10 am

    anything is better than powerpoint

  2. YDRIVE

    December 12th, 2007 at 6:28 am

    To do the routine desktop-centric stuff over the web is still some fancy idea. Other than the value proposition of no-need-to-buy-desktop-software-[from-Microsoft], there’s very little value, or value is still to be seen, or understood, or recognized.. sure people will still use it, albeit for perhaps 5% or 10% of time… /ac.

  3. Zoli Erdos

    December 12th, 2007 at 7:59 am

    #2, Ydrive, Arguably presentations are the most ‘collaborative’ types of docs we create. One-to-many, or often few-to-many. Just by moving it online collaboration is easier, but this one also has built-in chat, conferencing, desktop sharing. More here…

  4. Chris R

    December 12th, 2007 at 9:19 am

    zoho isn’t even close to google.

  5. Mani

    December 12th, 2007 at 9:30 am

    Chris : I am sure your opinion will change after trying Show 2.0.

    If you let us know any specific reason for saying this, please let us know. It will help us improve our service.

    Show 2.0 tour is available in the below URL. This explains all the features of Show 2.0.

    http://show20preview.zoho.com/help/tour/tour.html

  6. Don

    December 12th, 2007 at 9:55 am

    No export to PowerPoint?
    No slide transitions?
    No animations?
    No smart art graphics?
    No slide/object level track changes?
    No capability to embed audio/video/flash content?
    Slide themes, cliparts and bullets are trivial to develop - finish the set above and then Zoho can be comparable to PowerPoint…much less Keynote!

  7. YDRIVE

    December 12th, 2007 at 10:32 am

    @Zoli, agree that it’s collaborative.. but then, use a modern version of PowerPoint would readily provide a nice solution..

    That said, I’m aware that it’s more like webtop vs. desktop argument, and I’m only a believer of the hybrid solution.. (ie., not a replacement solution).

    So it’s more like, say, Paris Hilton.. those who like her will like her very much.. and the rest of the story.. ;-)

  8. Joe T

    December 12th, 2007 at 11:18 am

    I wanted to check out Zoho, but Beebu sent me a message about its new service, Wakibo. I tried it and it was better than anything else, including Yizzo and Zanggu.

    Yesterday I was on Wumuju, and a friend sent me a social video from Vijio. I watched it and even though Malaba has better apps, Zoho is similar to Nexenda (a service of Shwaha). Check it out and compare it to Uhaala. You’ll see that it’s better than Jomoopa but not quite as good as Quooba.

  9. Marko

    December 12th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    @ Joe T: Looks like you spent too much time in Swaziland :-)

  10. Steve Ballmer

    December 12th, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    Looks like a kids toy!

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  11. Zeljko Dakic

    December 12th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    Steve, you are lame as much as your self promotion.

  12. john

    December 13th, 2007 at 5:43 am

    I still say they need to take a few hours out of their day and redesign that 90s-ish logo!

    P.S. I’ll second the Steve is lame notion… I truly hope that no one actually ever goes to his blog…I have no idea what it is about, but with his brutal comments on here, I couldn’t care less.

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