{"id":272086,"date":"2010-02-03T14:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=96599"},"modified":"2010-02-03T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:34:06","slug":"black-tonic-cool-new-remote-presentation-web-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272086","title":{"rendered":"Black Tonic: Cool New Remote Presentation Web App"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a reporter covering startups and new product launches, I see a lot of WebEx, GoToMeeting, Glance.net, Adobe Connect, Dimdim and other remote presentation tools on a day-to-day basis. And maybe I’m just on a bad streak of meetings, but they all too often don’t work. So I’m for anything that makes long-distance demos more simple and reliable.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I had a chance to check out a new tool this week that promises to be just that: It’s called Black Tonic<\/a>, and it’s launching today out of Portland, Ore.-based design and development consultancy Wolverine. Black Tonic is entirely web-based sans plug-in, and works across just about all browsers. People watching a presentation can even tune in via Safari on their iPhones.<\/p>\n

Black Tonic is not a screen-sharing tool, so you don’t have to show your whole desktop, with the risk of co-creator David Price’s complaint about competitors’ products: “I hate it when I don’t turn off my Growl notifications and an email from my mom pops up while I’m presenting.” (Yeah, definitely seen that one — but further it’s just awkward to be given a full view of someone’s personal desktop space.) And Black Tonic is not a collaboration tool; all that happens is one person presents a deck of slides and the other watches. (So on the downside, this wouldn’t be good for people who want to work together remotely or want to give a live demo of their site.) The product also includes versioning support and live uploads on the fly. For even more details on its functionality, see Imran’s post over on WebWorkerDaily.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Price compares what Black Tonic does to Google Wave, drop.io, and other real-time browser-based tools. Black Tonic is all HTML and JavaScript, not even the new hype magnet HTML5. Price said they refer to their real-time broadcasting engine as “DOMcasting,” as in the “document object model” coding convention. “We synchronize the DOM between every instance of the web browser,” is how he put it.<\/p>\n

Black Tonic is available to the public as of today, starting with a 14-day free trial and after that $15 per month per user.<\/p>\n

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