Keynote on the Web for free
We live in interesting days. For the past couple of years, we’ve been slowly moving toward Web applications and our operating system is becoming less and less important. Obviously, we still have quite a way to go before we can say web applications are polished as desktop apps, but from time to time I come accross Web applications that are quite impressive.
280slides.com is a keynote replacement made by ex-Apple employees who decided to recreate the cocoa API in Javascript. The result is, in a word, impressive. Oh, and it’s also free. The application doesn’t support even 1 third of the features that Powerpoint or Keynote support, but it does have all the basic features that perhaps 80% of us need when creating a slideshow.
When done with your presentation, you can save the result to a local file in either Powerpoint, PDF or Open Document format so that you can run it locally as you would a normal presentation. The service is still in Beta but the application works quite well and allows you to publish your presentations on SlideShare (also for free).
We may not yet be at a point where we can say Web applications are replacing our Desktop-based business apps, but a site like 280slides.com is proving that we’re getting there quite quickly.
