After nearly a year of development, NYC based Fusebox has announced the private beta of an Adobe Flex based presentation platform entitled Empressr. Participation in the private beta is scheduled to last for the next month, prior to an early 2008 release featuring Adobe AIR – a tool enabling developers to deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
Empressr is devoted to creative presentations through a combination of “Uploading, Linking, Creating, and Sharing.” The platform, however, boasts several differentiating features – all connected to the use of Adobe Flex. By using the Flex platform, Empressr enables simple incorporation of rich media items such as video, images, charts, etc. Easy access to Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube and others ensure users will be able to create a visual story beyond bullet points and stagnant images.
Empressr also removes cross-platform problems thanks to Flex’s focus on identical performance across all major browser and operating systems. Previously, the use of unique fonts or specialized graphics was problematic to presentation builders, but will be made possible through Empressr.
Empressr is not alone in their quest to improve the process of building presentations. Most recently, MyPlick modified their slideshow creation tool to work with Google presentations. There is also a little known Microsoft tool called PowerPoint which continues to attract users 
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