About Prezi ~

 

Prezi :

One of the greatest innovations in education was the blackboard. For the first time in history, teachers could present their lessons visually and engage students to participate in the conversation. The whiteboard has done the same for business—helping us to explore and share ideas more effectively.

Prezi is a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations: enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas.

Prezi allows us to communicate design ideas with our clients in a highly engaging and dynamic way, liberating interesting conversations from the boredom of one-way presentations

 

Prezi, a popular alternativee to Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation applications, launched a new version of its interface today. The company, which is advised by Jack Dorsey, also announced that it has passed the 15 million user milestone.

For those not familiar, Prezi uses a map-like metaphor for creating presentations instead of a slideshow metaphor. This makes it possible to create non-linear presentations, or presentations that use spatial metaphors for organizing ideas, like mind maps.

The new UI took a second to get used to, but I think it will be easier for new users to get started. One thing I liked about Prezi to begin with is that unlike PowerPoint and other Office apps, the features aren’t “hidden” in menus, and the new version makes it even easier to find different options.

The web version of Prezi is free, but if you want the desktop version or certain other features you’ll have to shell out for the Pro account, which costs $159 a year. But even free users can use the offline presentation viewers, so you never have to worry about shoddy conference Wi-Fi when giving a presentation. You can also use it for giving online presentations, bypassing the need to use WebEx.

The company was co-founded by Hungarian architect/artist/designer Adam Somlai-Fischer, who had been using custom code for giving Prezi-style presentations for years before starting the company. After enough people asked him how they too could create presentations like his he teamed up with Peter Halacsy and Peter Arvai to start the company in 2009.

Last year Prezi raised a $14 million Series B led by Accel Partners. Previously it raised Series A financing from Sunstone Capital and landed Dorsey as an adviser