Awards and Product Reviews

Freepath was added by Frost and Sullivan to its Hot Company watch list in the 2009 report of the World Presentation Assembly and Management Platforms Market. Frost and Sullivan showcases Freepath 2.0 as a match with its key features of a winning presentation solution: non-linear on demand access of all content, ability to play assets in their native format, and real-time edit capability while in presentation mode.

Freepath is honored to be recognized as a New California 100 Business Innovator. New California 100 businesses are some of the most innovative companies in the state representing California’s commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship, and workforce competitiveness. They are market leading technology companies who have been selected based on the uniqueness of their innovation, competitive advantages, and job and economic impact on California’s economy now and into the future.

Freepath is the first and very best tool that lets everyday presenters blend media from a range of desktop applications into one seamless presentation.

Chris Thomas, Chief Strategist from Intel, sees the next wave of presentations as a new art form, mixing and utilizing different rich media to strengthen the message through the art of presentation. Chris believes Freepath offers the tools that this emerging communications medium requires.

Freepath is the type of product that makes you wonder why no one ever thought of something like this before. It's very simple to use—in fact, this simplicity can sometimes be a disadvantage since you'll have to do a little unlearning. In my opinion, the best Freepath feature is that unlike other applications that try to add new features to PowerPoint, Freepath doesn't do anything of that sort. It leaves all PowerPoint content unaltered and you can go back and forth between playing your presentations from within PowerPoint or a Freepath playlist. That sort of freedom makes it so much more interesting to use—and at this price point, the product is a steal.

Freepath’s software lets users drag and drop multimedia content–video, music and audio, animation, PDFs, Web pages, and more–into slideshow-like presentations. Notably, it works with digital content in any format, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word files. The company is aiming its software at businesses, schools, and consumers. I’ve sat through dozens of PowerPoint presentations and can’t remember any that I would describe as fun, but there’s no reason they shouldn’t be. Freepath is an example of the blurring line between consumer and business technologies, with the promise that business presentations can become more creative and entertaining. Freepath’s CEO is John Stone, who worked as a VP for Apple after it acquired PowerSchool, a company that he co-founded.

Having done more Power Point presentations than anyone deserves, there are things I appreciate with Freepath. It allows you to mashup several kinds of media files to your presentation, including PowerPoint, PDFs, photos, videos, music files, live web sites, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets (shouldn't use those too often in a presentation though) and even Mac-generated files on a PC. And it's actually rather simple to edit the videos in Freepath. Also, the software comes with different display options; try the meeting view that let you see the play list and can bump around among your slides as you feel like whereas the audience only see the content of your choice - no need to exit presentation mode. During a presentation, you can rearrange files, pull a new file into your PlayList, or pause to take notes in a PowerPoint file. And it still looks like you came all prepared.

Freepath is where iTunes and YouTube meets presentation content.

Freepath is a place to organize and deliver content. Videos, PDFs, text, PowerPoints and live web content can be projected or shared on the web.