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It’s not too often I get com­pletely wowed by a new piece of tech­nol­ogy but Prezi has com­pletely bowled me over.

In a nut­shell, Prezi is a Flash-based pre­sen­ta­tion sys­tem that allows users to cre­ate incred­i­bly dynamic pre­sen­ta­tions. Pre­sen­ta­tions where you can zoom in and out across a large area (no slides), cre­ate motion paths, embed images and video and do things that pre­vi­ously needed a pretty com­pe­tent Flash devel­oper and a whole chunk of time. It kicks tra­di­tional slide­ware way into touch.

And it is very, very easy.

Here’s a quick snapshot:

Prezi is cur­rently in pri­vate beta but I got to spend a bit of time this after­noon play­ing with it. I took my recent writ­ing acad­emy deck (which you can see on Slideshare here) and put it into Prezi. You can see the result here (as long as I’ve got the shar­ing right) – sim­ply click on the right arrow at the bot­tom right of the screen to move through the presentation).

While I’ve gone a bit zoom-tastic, con­sider this took just a cou­ple of hours and required that I only had to watch a few 1 minute videos to work out how to do it. And I can down­load a final ver­sion of the pre­sen­ta­tion as a stand­alone file.

There are lim­i­ta­tions in terms of fonts and colours at the moment (which the devel­op­ers are work­ing on) but even as it stands, it is very cool.

So there you go, zero to fan­boy in a sin­gle afternoon.

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