I'm obviously kidding ... with the "PowerPoint Killer" thing. It seems these days people are into killing things, so I figured I'd bandwagon along.
Still, I wouldn't underestimate the appeal of a highly portable and accessible presentation, from a single "document". For example, this presentation
While this format for presentation doesn't readily allow you to create snazzy animations, it's a nonetheless interesting framework that could be further built upon.
If I was a corporation, I'd throw a couple of my geeks at building a cool web-based application living on the intranet, that would enable employees to easily create company-branded presentations, in like, minutes. Whatever gets created would instantly be retrievable over HTTP and presentable over projectors, to web surfers, and mobile device users. A laptop user would only need to access the presentation over HTTP *once*, prior to bringing the laptop over to the projector. The file being valid XHTML, a public presentation is nicely indexed by all search engines, and easily accessed by all web surfers. Same goes for mobile users.
Not to mention that it would likely be a fairly trivial task to package their framework into a standalone Mozilla XUL App. While the browser in itself already is quite sufficient, a XUL-based "Presentation Viewer" could further polish things quite nicely with standalone sweetness.
To Recap:
- Web-Based Presentation Builder automatically publishes "presentation files" onto a ...
- Web-Based Directory accessed by ...
- ... just about anything that speaks HTTP, including web browsers, mobile devices, custom XUL apps
- ...
- Profit?
Good stuff 8).
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Hello, I just wanted to announce to you an open-source web application I call S5 Presents. It uses Eric Meyer's great XHTML based presentation software, as well as incorporating many themes to make the process of creating a presentation very easy. I hope to incorporate features like Flickr and a WYSIWYG editor very soon. I hope you enjoy it.
http://s5presents.com/
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