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cactus Mail Starting 5/25/97

From: Patrick.Breitenbach@aexp.com (Patrick Breitenbach);
Sent at 5/28/97; 4:57:07 PM;
Re:Think Seybold, Dave

After having used my.yahoo for awhile and discovering my.excite today (both excellent) I've come to the conclusion that the best thing about PointCast, et.al. is not "push". It's personalization. I've deleted PointCast and made my.yahoo my default home. And Yahoo and Excite can constantly enhance the service and NEVER require the user to upgrade any software. PointCast hasn't even gotten a 68k version of its client out yet!

I liken the situation a bit to CDs. The main buzz about CDs was sound quality but I have a sneaky suspicion that what people really like about them (and they may not even know it!) is direct song access. I have yet to find someone who can reliably hear the difference between my $250 Nakamichi tape deck and my $300 Sony CD player.

From: ricci@pilot.net (Eric Hall);
Sent at 5/26/97; 4:54:32 PM;
Re:Think Seybold, Dave

I know a number of people who have to use Powerpoint at times for making presentations. They also have Persuasion, which they use whenever they can. The reason? Powerpoint doesn't cut it. It can't do the things they want to do, and what it can is difficult. What I've personally found about microsoft ware is that if you want to do things the way the applications wants to, you're fine. If you don't, you beat your head against it for days (at least) until you can figure out how to do an end-run around the program to get what you want. For that reason I don't think that microsoft knows what customers want.

From: jra@corp.webtv.net (Jeff Allen);
Sent at 5/26/97; 1:12:22 PM;
Re:Think Seybold, Dave

FYI, WebTV has had inter-page effects since last December, if not before. The designers thought it was an important way to make web pages more like the TV experience.

From: priviet@sirius.com (Steven Gilman);
Sent at 5/25/97; 2:19:29 PM;
Re:Think Seybold, Dave

Wish I were as optimistic as you about the web-powerpoint connection. If you have ever played with powerpoint presentations converted to web-enabled html, you might be a little more restrained.

Basically, MS takes the short road (as they often do), by saving all PP image slides as complete 1/4 size gifs then wrapping html display code around them. That means that everything within the larger PP image that may be 'hot' is simply a one dimensional gif. It also means that 3/4 of your net-screen space is blank, and what would have covered a full-monitor in PP now is a teeeeny 1/4 image.

The way PP builds presentions is fairly easy, and I wish MS or someone would provide the same for net-based presentation. It's something I've been looking for, for quite a while.

I've been frustrated converting PP presentations to web-enabled publishing.

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