Zentation.com - Google Video and PowerPoint Mashup

College students, brace yourselves: videos and powerpoint presentation mashups have finally arrived! I know you are shaking in anticipation, surely your lecturing counterparts are probably drooling at the prospect, and maybe you’ll be drooling in class for other reasons. Zentation is a great new tool for those interested in integrating videos within their powerpoint presentations, giving professors, presenters, and business professionals a way to synchronize video and graphic media files into the time-honored format of a power point.

Signing up is free, and creating a powerpoint file is even easier. The way it works is that you have to upload your video file into Google Video (for reasons explained on the website) and then copy and paste the URL of the Google Video in the form. Then upload your powerpoint file from Office, and use the ZenSync tool to put a professional touch by implementing precise timings.

“Zentation offers the richest media on the web for video and presentations. Zentation provides a way to synchronize video uploaded to Google Video with your PowerPoint. Zentation's patent pending technology allows for the easy synchronization of your video and graphics without any technical knowledge. Google Video is currently the only major video sharing service that allows the user to jump to any point in the video even if it has not downloaded that far yet. This capability is critical to the user experience of Zentation. Once other video sharing sites provide that capability, we will investigate integrating them.”

Most of the time, we see startups who are trying to reinvent the way people use technology. The truth is, most of the startups that actually make it are the ones who take into consideration the formats and applications people are already accostumed to using and tacking on features or revamped applications to make it even more useful. Though there might be tons of people (namely, the college students who have to watch them) who aren’t all that excited about new tech for powerpoints, this will certainly prove to be a useful application for lecturers who don’t want to give up their presentation format while integrating video and graphics.

Even while the process of uploading a file to Google Video might be simple, could it still cost them a lot of potential users by only integrating one video sharing service?

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