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280slides.com is one of the best webapps to date, and not just in its genre. Not only does it have all of the port and polish I would expect of a full blown professional desktop application but it works just as smooth as one too.

So, what does it do? Well Google Docs and OpenOffice.org should move over, because 280Slides is attacking their turf. It is a presentation suite modeled after Keynote, a desktop presentation application.

280Slides gets media right. Integrated in to the app is the ability to pull media from a “local” library or insert images via an internal search widget. All of this makes for a very robust feeling application that has the power of a desktop app, but fully leverages the power of web APIs.

While it may be styled off of Apple Inc.’s Keynote, 280slides only appears to export to the ubiquitous .ppt format used by Microsoft’s PowerPoint application.

This self-proclaimed “fantasy documentary” looks into the future of non-linear interactive media after getting sick of non-interactive linear television. The paradigm he explores is a search engine anthropomorphized as a butler. The butler, Tom, introduces himself as a desktop application intent on helping Douglas navigate and explore this non-linear hypertext system (not so web 2.0, but hey its 1990). Some might find it reminiscent of Apple Computer’s Knowledge Navigator concept.

From Wikipedia:

Hyperland is a 50 minute long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies written by Douglas Adams and produced by BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams already had worked on Doctor Who, as a software agent.

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