Web presentation tool

Sharing web pages in a conversation shouldn't be as tricky as it is. Sometimes you're on the phone, or speaking to a group of people and there isn't a handy way to bring people along with you from page to page and then let them have easy access to those pages after the conversation is through. Enter Agglom, a simple little service built by Italian developer Enrico Foschi. It's a Firefox plug-in that will make sharing a list of links far easier than it's been before.

It’s okay if you don’t recognize the name Nancy Duarte. You know her work. She is a Principal at Duarte, the agency that designed and produced Al Gore’s stunning Keynote presentation for the movie An Inconvenient Truth. When a business presentation is done really well it can be magical and change your perceptions, as anyone who has gathered for a Steve Jobs keynote knows all too well.

CHICAGO--The crux of Adobe Systems" platform strategy is in AIR. AIR, or Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a download that lets Web applications run on a desktop. With AIR applications, people can work offline and drag and drop items like graphics or text between Web and desktop applications. AIR is still in beta, but Adobe and many other software developers are already building applications on it. For Adobe"s platform business, AIR gives the company a way to extend its investments in Web documents and Web development tools onto desktops across different operating systems. Rather than compete head-on against Microsoft and Java vendors for developer interest, Adobe"s focus is on Web technologies and services, chief software architect Kevin Lynch said Monday at the company"s Max conference here. ***

IBM said on Monday that it will join the OpenOffice.org project and pledged to further use the open-source software in its own products. OpenOffice is an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office desktop applications suite. IBM will not be offering support for the product to customers. However, it will make technical contributions to the project and use code from the project in its own tools. Specifically, IBM said that it will have 35 programmers working on the OpenOffice code and it will contribute software to improve the product for people with disabilities--an important feature, particularly to government customers such as Massachusetts. ***

If you find yourself making online presentations, or sending out product demos, you might find some value in these three offerings that could make explaining your product or service much much easier, and less costly than hiring a video production team. Average users can easily use these tools after uploading video content to a webspace. First off, you have to capture video. If you are looking to take a video screen capture demonstration of your online service from your PC, you might want to use Snagit. This nice little tool with a free trial allows users to capture and edit whats happening on their screen. Once this is done and uploaded to a webspace you can check out Mojiti. ***

IBM is expected to disclose on Wednesday features of the forthcoming version of its WebSphere application server, which will center on improving performance and administration. WebSphere Application Server 6, the company's Java-based server software for running business applications, will be available before the end of the year, the company said. Big Blue had added a number of enhancements designed to make the software more reliable in case of outages and simpler to manage once applications are running. The update will also bear the first fruits of IBM's strategy to beef up its ***

Software maker Documentum, a specialist in content management products, announced Tuesday a new package designed to help publishing companies automatically reuse content in a variety of formats. The new Enterprise Publishing Solution package combines Documentum's main enterprise content management applications with other server software from the Pleasanton, Calif.-based company and its partners. The tools allow text, images and other content to be shared among a variety of systems, said Mark Arbour, director of product marketing for Documentum. Documentum repository that looks like a regular network drive, Arbour said. ***