PowerPoint Presentations Go Live With authorSTREAM

authorSTREAM, the site that allows you to send PowerPoint Presentations straight to YouTube YouTube , your iPod IPod , and your blog, has released today its newest feature: Present Live. Present Live allows you to share your PowerPoint Presentation with a selected group of friends and contacts on the Internet in real time.

What I like about authorSTREAM, and Present Live in particular, is that the service is user-friendly. It takes all of two seconds to upload a PowerPoint and just click the 'Present Live' link to share the presentation with whomever you choose. I can see this working well not only at conferences but also in the classroom where students and teachers can easily interact through the Internet -- giving the "dog ate my homework" excuse a way out the door.

Of course, live Web meetings aren't exactly a ground-breaking discovery. There are services like TalkShoe and Skype for audio and video conferencing. Likewise, other document sharing sites exist such as SlideShare,Scribd, ZohoShow, and ThinkFree Office Suite.

The simplicity of authorSTREAM will certainly be appealing to people with work and life schedules that are becoming ever-more hectic. And, you know, for all the Dr. Evils of the world.