At Zoomorama we feel what more important is giving the tools to create web content including presentation of all sorts.
For example, the new US Federal Budget that can be found on: http://wallstat.../deathandtaxes/
was done in a morning using XML and CSS only (left side Menu!)
End of September will publish the new authoring tool that will work on Mac/PC!

- Jean-Michel is right – the zoom effect is exciting now but for how long? It’s the equivalent of “spin” in PowerPoint – lots of excitement when it first came out, followed by the world and it’s mother using it inappropriately followed by derision when we all recognised it to be crass and inappropriate.

- What does excite me is the non linear way that Prezi forces the author to think. It’s not necessarily the blizzard of bullet points or crappy artwork/animations that have damaged PowerPoint’s reputation – it’s the lack of planning and real storytelling by the presentation authors that has done the damage. Prezi will at least force people to think fully about the audience, content and structure before composing their next presentation.

- To echo previous comments, interactivity is nothing new and can be easily and effectively in lowly old PowerPoint. As an agency, we’ve educated a large number of our clients to use PowerPoint as a “toolkit” rather than a standard linear presentation tool. It’s not a huge shift, uses their tried and trusted buddy PowerPoint and can be edited by them on the fly.

To sum it all up, Prezi is exciting because it’s forcing people to think differently. It faces many of the same challenges as SlideRocket – acceptance as a “grown up” tool and integration into the thousands of PowerPoint decks their target market have stored on servers across their business. SlideRocket chose to ignore the dominance of PowerPoint and have struggled since…I hope Prezi don’t make the same mistake.

I agree that it takes quite some hours understand and being able to use Prezi’s functionality to the fullest. You also have to be careful not to get carried away by the bells and whistles, which I think I did at the beginning.

People raved about it afterwords: https://www.sdn...=/pub/wlg/14351

The current design and font selection possibilities are very limited, which leads to Prezi presentations getting old very fast. After you have seen a couple it wears off.

I love the idea of putting flow charts out in Prezi, or I am surprised, that the flowchart software folks have not yet created the capability to lay down a track through a flowchart including zooming.

Now that the genie is out, I guess I have to think of something else to wow the audience at my next presentation ;-(

A demo such as this one goes a long way in showing the performance jump Prezi offers over Powerpoint.

The second use I’ve found is as a “demo” or product tour tool. We spent quite a bit of time building a video tour of our product and were never quite satisfied with the result. So we tried Prezi. The result is (we think) pretty nice – a web-based tour that allows the detail we want without looking like a traditional commercial. Here it is for anyone interested: http://www.next...rmance.com/tour