Thanks for your detailed feedback. One quick note- the slidecast is optional; you can use the slides by themselves without the audio; just do not use the play button but use the back/next.

Otherwise valid points raised by you.

amit

i) ability to switch of the pod cast if i want to.
ii) Flipping back and forth through slides is clumsy.
iii) If the audio clip for a slide is 2min, and i want to traverse to the 1.2 min. How do i do that?

Overall a very good concept but need to iron out some issues.

Since you ask, here’s some feedback -
- The synch between audio and slides looks weird. I browse thru’ most presentations quickly and do not have the patience to listen to everything the presenter has to say. This is true even in a live presentation where people pay more attention to whats displayed than whats being said

- The audio buffering was incredibly slow, and I am on a very fast connection

- The synching of audio slide by slide is laborious. A casual user will probably not make so much effort - and many presentations actually go back and forth between slides

You do have a hard problem to solve - but here’s a few things to think about -

- If audio is turned on, does it make sense to limit the user’s ability to transition between slides. Let it play by itself
- Provide users the ability to disable the podcast when viewing slides
- Most slides are self-explanatory - if i do come across a slide that needs explaantion, then i just need the audio for that slide only
- Figure out a way to make it work if the presenter skipped a slide or went back and forth between slides

Cheers!

Thnks but I am expecting criticism. I’d be much happier if you could tell me what you did not like about this or how this could be made more compelling.

amit