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Make your own Flash presentations with Flypaper and GoldMail

by Rafe Needleman

Flypaper lets you make professional-quality presentations from ordinary events.

Flypaper, formerly FreshBrew, creates cool Flash presentations without requiring the user to actually know Flash.

The presentations are based on templates, which users can then put their own data in, including audio and video, if the template supports it. The authoring application is a clunky downloaded application, which is weird for a glitzy Flash content company, but it does give you more drag-and-drop capabilities than you would probably get with a pure Flash authoring application.

Still, the output that we saw here was good. The "stories" that Flypaper makes look like professional Flash presentations. Whether you actually want your vacation photos or resumes in a Flash application is a question only you can answer.

GoldMail took the stage right after FlyPaper. It's oriented a bit more toward setting up linear presentations, which I think makes more sense. I covered GoldMail in November. At Demo 2008, the company is launching its business version, which adds custom branding, tracking, and a direct response feature.

See also, Vuvox, which I saw at Demo 2007.

Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe.
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by jeet221990 February 1, 2008 3:36 AM PST
good
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by kentpaul_65102 February 5, 2008 1:42 PM PST
i saw the entire video... i was like woah! this is the best webare since meebo!!!
i am too impressed by it and though he mentioned that it was free.. i just wanted to know for how much longer...
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