From the Outer Crust

Microsoft has just come out with an enhancement to Powerpoint 2007 which many will find useful. It enables a presentation to be integrated into authorStream and youtube by a few clicks of the mouse. What is even more interesting is what can be done with a PowerPoint slide presentation using a Wii controller; pptPlex also enables a presentation to be sent to your iPod.

I recommend a look. Here are some useful links, with brief commentary.

This is an overview of pptPlex. The commentary sounds like it might have been prepared with  dummies in mind – MS working to the lowest common demoninator, as it were.

http://communityclips.officelabs.com/Video.aspx?videoId=f362631f-c86c-4547-a544-9b8eda9975e3

Using a Wii controller for a PowerPoint pptPlex slide show.

http://communityclips.officelabs.com/Video.aspx?videoId=6e2db82d-9b72-4f61-a240-1cf91300f131

Here is a Wikepedia discussion about what sorts of things can be done via authorStream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthorSTREAM#authorSTREAM

Now, authorStream itself.

http://www.authorstream.com/

How to send a PowerPoint slide show to youtube via authorStream.

http://communityclips.officelabs.com/Video.aspx?videoId=b6bf7144-df56-43de-8d8e-74f3f8bbf925

Your authorStream show can also be sent to your Apple iPod.

Transfer speeds between authorStream and youtube and within youtube itself, according to MS’s own commentary, can be unusually long.  Have fun.