On approach can be fond with Picscout, a company trying to solve the discovery and rights management challenge for images.  They just launched a tool that allows someone (like a yours-truly blogger…) to conduct a transaction with an image owner regardless of where they found an images.  As someone who has often found great images for posts and presentations, but on sites that had no link to the owner, this solves a frustrating problem.

Can this really solve a problem.  Probably.  Ideally, a solution like Picscout becomes industry standard (for images, video, sound etc) so that when you discover something anywhere, you can easily acquire the rights. 

There is a free beta now at http://imagex.picscout.com and an impressive list (maybe they are on the way to becoming a standard) of industry participants here: http://www.picscout.com/news-and-events/industry-wide-support.html

Zoho Show, part of the Zoho suite of web applications, has updated its tool set for Web collaboration and presentations.    There are several key new features for professionals using it to market in digital media format. 

1. Export to PPT, PPS, PDF, ODP
2. Picasa Integration – Like many, I use Picasa to store photos from work.  This makes it a lot easier to simply pick out the ones I want while working on presentations.
3. Embed Enhancements for embedding in a blog or website.  Embedded presentations are great digital content for marketing, educational and other types of online content.

You can read more here.