Dot-Gone: Two Web-Based PowerPoint Sharing Services Close Shop
Does this mark the beginning of the end for the Web 2.0 party ? In a short span of three days, at least two web based PowerPoint clones have decided to shut down their businesses completely.
Slideaware.com, a PowerPoint hosting service that let you deliver presentations live, sent an email to all existing clients saying that they are discontinuing the service due to a "shift in business plans."
Another service that’s closing shop is Spresent.com. This was actually a very impressive web based alternative to PowerPoint that failed to achieve critical mass.
They are now closing the service according to this email - "Our data center hosting partner is going down. We are trying to migrate Spresent from the partner, but it could take few weeks. We will try to keep Spresent.com site up, but can’t guarantee."
In case you have put PowerPoint presentation slides on any of these sites, it’s time that you download all the material on the desktop and identify a replacement service - maybe Google Docs Presentations is a good choice. Picture: Flickr
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Ouch that sucks…I’m sure we’re going to see a recession in the Web 2.0 arena also, there are simply too many companies out there.
Many of the new web startups don’t get the momentum they wanted and that’s why it becomes hard to stay on. But I think deciding to stay in the market and waiting to get things going takes times and patients is virtue. Going off quickly is sure loosing a game without playing it fully!
Any business without proper plan and projected ROI will go down.
Even for web2.0 there is not clear idea about revenue model.
From Spresent:
Our parent company is going out of business. As simple as that.
So we plan to re-write the product from scratch (next gen) and launch it under different name. And it would be much cooler. We think we can be much better than PPT.
We think we learned few lessons, and found a reasonable business model.
But first we”ll update Win version (with Audio) and will launch Diagramic.com
We are not going away. We are just “re-charging the batteries”