Winners of the Win an iPad Contest @authorSTREAM

The Win an iPad contest @authorSTREAM ended on the 17th of April - a fortnight after it started, and it's now the big time for declaring the winners! We appreciate all your efforts in extending authorSTREAM to PowerPoint users and it was a joy to find a lot of you tweeting about your most-liked features on authorSTREAM and sharing with your followers. We got a huge number of  tweets coming in and undoubtedly this has helped the PowerPoint users who were not aware about authorSTREAM to get feature recommendations from all your tweets and do more with PowerPoint.

You liked the features and you tweeted them. On our part, we held a draw of lots from all the tweets and decided the winners - and it's time to announce the winners!

Heartiest Congratulations to all the Winners of the authorSTREAM Win an iPad contest!

 

iPad Winner: @ipodsibilities

iPod Winner: @Nav_H

iPod Nano Winner: @auntiethesis

Winners are requested to DM (Direct Message) us from your twitter account with your email address at our twitter profile and we'll get in touch with you to deliver the goodies.

But hey all you other tweeple, wait! As promised, everyone gets something by participating. Every participant is eligible to claim your video credits on authorSTREAM worth $4 - Simply create an account on authorSTREAM if you don’t have one and send us an @authorSTREAM message to our twitter account with your authorSTREAM username. You can also email your username to support@authorstream.com.

Thanks to all the participants for making this contest a grand success. Stay tuned to know more about upcoming contests and updates @authorSTREAM. We also look forward to meet everyone who wants to see-us in person.

Online PowerPoint Presentations Now on Your iPad @authorSTREAM

A stunning demo on magazine-like layout controlled with your fingers, tap the screen  to play an online PowerPoint presentation, touch a photo - zoom to full screen, glide your fingers along the screen to move from page to page, activate the microphone to add an audio annotation.

Yes, we are talking about iPad - the new Apple computing device. With intuitive interface, persistent online connection, beautiful layout, simplicity and ease-of-use — it’s definitely in for changing the way people compute. They say it’s not the touch that sets iPad apart but the way people view and use content.

The best Web surfing experience, the best email experience, the best photo and movie-watching, the best presentation experience has the whole world raving to get their hands on it. Indeed, it got us all very excited at authorSTREAM. But the absence of Flash came as a disappointment. Apple has made it harder for presentation sharing sites like authorSTREAM to go on iPads because of the lack of support for Flash leaving our users flummoxed and frustrated.

Most of you who have already grabbed your iPad or are about to do so, must have been wondering whether you will be able to access your PowerPoint presentations at authorSTREAM on iPads! We understood the need with the release of the everyone-must-have-one gadget from Apple and of course, we didn't want you to miss out on authorSTREAM, so we launched an iPad compatible version of authorSTREAM. This makes authorSTREAM the first iPad-ready PowerPoint presentation sharing platform.

We have worked extra hard to get this on - using HTML. All the new PowerPoint presentations you upload are now viewable on iPads and over time we will get the older presentations on it too. If you are accessing authorSTREAM on your iPad, you will be able to watch presentations as you do from any other PC. authorSTREAM will detect automatically when you’re browsing the site on an iPad and will display iPad compatible content. For now the presentations you will see on iPads won't have support for animations and audio/video but very soon we’ll have it too.

The grapevine says HP with its Slate akin to iPad and few more are taking the same route. Rest assured, your PowerPoint presentations will be viewable on them especially since they support Flash.

The iPad version also works on iPods, iPhones and some other mobile devices too. Your worries are over, be it iPad, iPhone or any other mobile device, your presentations will be viewable, the way you intended them to be, on all devices!

We look forward to your feedback.

The Win iPad Contest - Updates @authorSTREAM

Hello everyone! We are back with some contest updates. Thanks to all of you for your overwhelming participation in the ongoing Win iPad @authorSTREAM twitter contest:

 The objective of the contest being "extending authorSTREAM to PowerPoint users", it's a joy to find a lot of you tweeting about your most-liked features on authorSTREAM and sharing with your followers. We believe that PowerPoint users who do not know about authorSTREAM will get feature recommendations from all your tweets, which in turn will enable them to explore authorSTREAM features and do more with PowerPoint.

We have been overwhelmed with email from our members and the Web audience sending us notes of thanks and queries. The support team has been answering all your mails in sequence. So if you are wondering why your query has not been answered, we would ask you to relax and wait till we are finished with the whole stack.

It's a great experience watching members going creative! Some tweets show how members love using PowerPoint as a presentation tool and authorSTREAM as a platform for sharing and adding functionality to their presentations. Some tweets also show how members have been using PowerPoint and authorSTREAM. Although we have not been able to see all the tweets, we found these ones interesting:

• Thanks to @authorSTREAM my wife was able to remotely present her #PowerPoint defense of her dissertation in the USA while she was in Europe.
• @authorSTREAM I love how easy authorSTREAM is to use. Teachers and students use #PowerPoint all the time, give them a place to display them!
• Yes, this qualifies me for an iPad drawing, but I recommend @authorSTREAM anyway for handling of #PowerPoint animation
• @authorSTREAM with #PowerPoint provides a beautiful 1-click live meeting capability Try it, you will love me for it.
• @authorSTREAM offers great #PowerPoint sharing tools. try them out. The test ones I did were indexed well in Google also.

We extend our sincere thanks to Geetesh Bajaj and Kirsten Winkler for the coverage on their blogs.


Tweet what you really like!


We definitely want you to tweet about us but you would offer value to your followers if you tweet only about the features that you like on authorSTREAM, and you  honestly want that your followers should be informed  about those features. Tweeple love tweeple who tweet about something that they have used and found value in, and really want to recommend it to others.

The Win iPad contest is on and will be up until 17th April, 2010 (12 midnight EST). The winners will be declared on 21st April so flit right in!

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Win an iPad at authorSTREAM! Just Tweet a Feature

The Apple iPad goes to stores today. It's a neat gadget yeah. But wait before you get in queue and reach for your wallet. We have something planned for you right here on authorSTREAM. You could win an iPad absolutely free! How?

Yes! It's as simple as it looks: You just need to tweet an authorSTREAM feature and you qualify for the iPad! We not only have an iPad to give away but also iPods to the first two runners up and two authorSTREAM video credits worth $4 as an assured gift to every participant!

And here's what we have for you:

• The winner gets an Apple iPad plus authorSTREAM Premium Membership for a year

• The 1st runners up gets an iPod plus authorSTREAM Premium Membership for a year

• The 2nd runners up gets an iPod Nano plus authorSTREAM Premium Membership for a year

Assured Prize: All participants get 2 video credits ($4 value) on authorSTREAM

The authorSTREAM iPad contest has started now and ends on 17th April, 2010 (12 midnight EST). The winners will be declared on 21st April.

The rules are pretty simple and we have shown the most-loved features of authorSTREAM on the contest page. You can also create your own tweet using #PowerPoint and @authorSTREAM. You can even tweet about your own presentation using # PowerPoint and @authorSTREAM. So go right ahead and tweet. More tweets, more chances of winning! Here's the contest page: Win an iPad. And while you are at it, you might like to meet us in person. So we invite you to our Chandigarh, India office to come and have tea with us. Or do you like coffee?