Mashable put together a very comprehensive list of online presentation apps

Cool Site of The Day featured Empressr this past February

What I learned today, included us in a list of online presentation apps

Grad School Journal wrote a nice piece about Empressr

Medium Massage has a comprehensive list of all the finalist for the Webware 100 (please vote for Empressr) 

Edumorphology wrote a nice piece about us

RIApedia included Empressr its list of Flex applications (I like that they put us on top)

techlosofy has us in their list with some comments that are not in a language I can read

VOTE NOW

We are excite to be nominated (ha, and I didn’t even do i) as a finalist for the Webware 100. For all of our fans, I would love if you would give us your vote. Muchos Gracias and we’ll see you in Miami this weekend at fowa.

As the fowa looms a few days away, Empressr is looking for a few more votes on webappcharts.com so if you use Empressr, and want to help get us higher in the list, please give us a vote.

It’s a crappy Youtube (when are they going to allow good quality?) post but you get the idea. (also posted to my DotMac account, much nicer quality)

Cool, Empressr on the MTV 44.5 HD Billboard!

We decided to move the blog off blogger and have our own Wordpress, so this is the new blog. I like the flexibility of Wordpress over blogger.

We have a new feature release of Empressr coming up later this week so stay tuned.

Emails are going out this week to let everyone know that Empressr is ready for Public Beta! We are really excited about the v3. It has been re-imagined!We know there will be a lot of questions, and yes some bugs and we encourage all comments and questions. We will be posting some screen casts to the Web site at the end of the week to help you get empressed.The New Flex Empressr Composr is more interactive and full of new features.  

• Choose the size of your Empressr
• Snap to grid, object and guide
• Customize grid spacing
• Zoom to align objects with greater accuracy
• Use a different background for each slide
• Select transitions between slides including 3D effects
• Arrange layering
• Copy and paste objects from slide to slide
• Drag and drop images, videos and Flash assets from the Library
• Robust text tables and charts
• Add transparency effects on all objects
• Capture images from your Webcam right into the Library
• Tag media assets 

Requires Flash 9 plugin available for download at the Adobe Web site. For Mac OS X 10.5 users, please download the newest release candidate from Adobe Labs Create new EmpressrsTo create using v.3 simply click “+Create New” or “+Quick Show”Modify past EmpressrsYour existing Empressrs will not be converted to v.3. You may still edit them using v.2.A few known issues to be aware of:

• Linking to content outside of our domain,(such as flickr, etc) is not fully implemented, we will have that working tomorrow. 
• Some of the styles that you set are not being retained, this is at the top of the list to fix. 
• Thumb-nailing is not working on flash files yet, and sometimes the thumbnails on the videos do not generate. 
• Some transitions are chunky at less than their original size, works perfect full size and full screen. 
• Fonts, the upload your own font feature has not been implemented yet and we have a small font selection available to work with for now.

That’s the big ones, and we should have most of these taken care of in the next few days.Have fun and remember, this is a Public Beta!Bryan

Emails are going out this week to let everyone know that Empressr is ready for Public Beta! We are really excited about the v3. It has been re-imagined!We know there will be a lot of questions, and yes some bugs and we encourage all comments and questions. We will be posting some screen casts to the Web site at the end of the week to help you get empressed.The New Flex Empressr Composr is more interactive and full of new features.

• Choose the size of your Empressr
• Snap to grid, object and guide
• Customize grid spacing
• Zoom to align objects with greater accuracy
• Use a different background for each slide
• Select transitions between slides including 3D effects
• Arrange layering
• Copy and paste objects from slide to slide
• Drag and drop images, videos and Flash assets from the Library
• Robust text tables and charts
• Add transparency effects on all objects
• Capture images from your Webcam right into the Library
• Tag media assets

Requires Flash 9 plugin available for download at the Adobe Web site. For Mac OS X 10.5 users, please download the newest release candidate from Adobe Labs Create new EmpressrsTo create using v.3 simply click “+Create New” or “+Quick Show”Modify past EmpressrsYour existing Empressrs will not be converted to v.3. You may still edit them using v.2.A few known issues to be aware of:

• Linking to content outside of our domain (such as flickr, etc) is not fully implemented, we will have that working tomorrow.
• Some of the styles that you set are not being retained, this is at the top of the list to fix.
• Thumb-nailing is not working on flash files yet, and sometimes the thumbnails on the videos do not generate.
• Some transitions are chunky at less than their original size, works perfect full size and full screen.
• Fonts, the upload your own font feature has not been implemented yet and we have a small font selection available to work with for now.

Those are the big ones, and we should have most of these taken care of in the next few days.Have fun and remember, this is a Public Beta!Bryan

Empressr was chosen as the “Technology Pace Setter” at The New New Internet Conference in Reston VA. It’s a great honor that the distinguished Judging Committee of industry experts and venture capitalists chose Empressr over the other companies in the group. I gave a 5 minute talk on Empressr and our strategy for its creation, to the packed hall of over 500 attendees.

Sign up now for the private beta. We will begin inviting people in a few weeks.

**Update, Private beta is over, everyone can sign up now.