Kivo: Simple document feedback in your browser
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1) It doesn't mention what file types it accepts. Since it says "presentations" I'm tempted to think .PPT, but some tools for presentations (like SpeakerDeck.com) take .PDF.
2) Why presentations? Why not documents (e.g. word processing files)? I haven't used Google Docs, but if it doesn't have feedback capability it seems like documents might be a more fruitful niche than presentations.
3) Perhaps related to (2), would it make more sense to highlight the text you want to comment on rather than drawing a box around it (which doesn't work so well if the text wraps to the next line)?
1) Thanks, I will fix that; I agree it is not clear. We accept pptx, ppt, and pdf.
2) With early users, we found that content creation of Word documents can happen relatively easily outside of Word; this is not the case with PowerPoint. There are a couple of great online Word processors, and GDocs does a good job of annotating text. PowerPoint is different because it is still the ubiquitous way to make a presentation, a piece of software which has few alternatives, and currently no decent solution exists for this pain-point.
3.) That's a good idea. We did boxes first of all, because it's a one-size-fits-all approach and we wanted to keep it simple. We will be adding more specific annotations (text, shapes, graphs, etc.) in the future.
Thanks again for reaching out -- and feel free to email me (leo@kivo.com) if you have any more questions!