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Pixetell is a service that tries to liven up boring, text-based emails by letting you send links to multimedia presentations (incorporating screen recording, voice, documents, and more) to someone’s inbox. It’s like a richer form of email, or an asynchronous web meeting, where people don’t have to coordinate their schedules.

Until now, however, Pixetells (which is what the presentations are called) lacked one of the key features of email — they’re impossible to edit or reuse. Compare that to email, where you can send a message with similar text to a bunch of people, just rewording the introduction, or you can forward an email after making a few necessary edits.

Pixetell-maker Ontier said that with the new version launching today, content can now be reused and edited. For example, if you’re on a sales team and the team leader has created a standard sales pitch, you can download the pitch, separate the core content, then add a personalized introduction of your own.

The new version of Pixetell also includes the ability to import videos files, not just screen or webcam recordings. Click here to see a presentation demonstrating the new features.

Ontier didn’t tell us how many customers it has, but noted that those customers fall into a number of different industries, from telemedicine to real estate to landscaping. Its presentations can be viewed on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, though they can only be created on Windows.

The Portland, Ore., company launched at the DEMO conference in March and made Pixetell generally available in July.

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