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Making money from PowerPoints with PPTExchange

selling powerpoints with pptexchangerSelling presentations? I'm sure Microsoft didn't think about that when they started development on Powerpoint. Who would have ever thought that it would be possible to make some pocket change for selling the notes you jot down in a PowerPoint presentation? Welcome to Web 2.0 where everything is possible, but not everything is a viable business.

PPTExchange is a service that allows users to publish, trade and sell any document created in a PowerPoint presentation. It is a neat idea...sort of. But can it benefit people in the long run, and make money? I highly doubt it. Content so far on the site includes animated stories, a presentation entitled "people that look like their dogs", and a Student of the month certificate. Just from that small list you can get the idea of the type of site it's turning into. This one just doesn't stand out in the long list of online applications.

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