Moxtra Note is the annotation and recording facility, and Moxtra Meet is the simultaneous web meeting tool. The Moxtra Cloud connectors pull in your files from your desktop or other storage providers Moxtra Binder is the main iPad collection tool. The Moxtra team sees this product tacking back and forth between personal and team project management, with a lightweight client supported by several heavy-hitting cloud services. It's a very personal news feed covering the things you're working on. Every action in every binder is logged to your Updates screen, so you can always track back and see what's been changed. Just as you can share your binders to others, when other people share binders to you they'll show up on your binder bookshelf, with indicators showing how long they are, how many comments they have and how many people have access. In fact, if you record narration while you swipe through the pages in a binder, every annotation step will be recorded along with it in real time the resulting movie is saved to your iPad photo album, and you can share that out as well if you choose. There's a full commenting and annotation layer, showing anything you choose to highlight or amend. You decide if they get view-only access, or the opportunity to edit and contribute to the binder with you. You decide whether to keep a binder private, share to the world (via Facebook) or selectively to invited guests/collaborators. (One hopes Moxtra will add an extra security PIN or other challenge for users who have this access turned on - yes, it's read-only, but it's still a lot of exposure if your iPad is stolen or compromised.) Most helpfully, there's a small desktop agent that you can install on your Mac or PC it opens up your entire hard drive for remote access, so you can grab files at will as long as your machine is online. You can take photos or video with the iPad camera, or access your existing photo library on the device. Cloud services like Box and Dropbox are accessible from the iPad app, so any of your files there in readable formats (PDF, images, movies, Office files and more) can be downloaded and converted to binder pages. From the desktop, you can clip images or web pages right to the service in fact, web pages can be "live" within a binder so that they'll always show the current version of the page. Binders are put together on the web or on the iPad - an example of content curation, if not outright creation - and you can easily narrate and share a slideshow edition that will play anywhere.Īdding pages of content to a binder is easy, with several pathways to get at your stuff. Moxtra's binders are digital portfolio cases, holding any document or media that you like. Founded by veterans of Cisco's WebEx division, the app is built around the concept of a shelf full of virtual binders, each one collecting whatever you need for that project, topic or area of interest. That gap of daylight between pure presentation form and remember-everything functionality is where you'll find Moxtra, a new iPad app and suite of cloud services launching today. Neither of those approaches provides a full annotation layer atop the content, with highlights and text notes in context rather than off to the side. If you go with something like Sliderocket, you get a slick presentation with powerful sharing options, narration, analytics and web meetings built in, but you are locked into the slide format no arbitrary media and shifting content. If you want to build out a collaborative project book with the ability to include movies, sounds, PDFs, comments and annotations in an indexed "everything bucket" and share it selectively, you could do that in Evernote - but you give up the ability to set a specific, front-to-back order and a solid presentation layer or web meeting front-end, or record your own narration to go with the show. There's a bit of daylight between these platforms, though. And if you're organizing your thoughts into notebook form, fan-favorite Evernote has your back. A document or a spreadsheet: Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.com, Dolly Drive or Egnyte. Got a presentation deck to show? You can go full-on web meeting with Webex, GoToMeeting, or Fuze Meeting to create the content and share it smoothly, Slideshare or Sliderocket will serve, as would either Google or Microsoft's online presentation framework. In the ultra-cloud, post-PC era, we do not lack for ways to share our stuff.
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