I noticed the link to this on Jacob Morgan's blog recently, Sliderocket is a web-application for creating presentations. This in itself is nothing new Google docs has included a presentation application for a while now and Zoho Show is also well established but there are two main problems with each of them:
- In general, you need to have an working internet connection in order to show the presentations unless you export to a different format.
- For most of the time you spend working with them, you wish that you were using Powerpoint (or another off-line application) instead.
Sliderocket has obviously been working hard to create a web-app which is not only as simple to use as the offline apps, but also allows you to take a local cached copy of the presentation for when you have no internet connection.
In addition to being able to access your presentation from any internet connected computer; there are additional features which whilst not impossible to replicate in offline apps, are typical of the latest best-of-breed web applications. These include direct searching and import of images and videos from the likes of Flickr and YouTube, a quotes search for finding inspirational quotes based on a keyword search and even synchronised import of data from Google docs spreadsheets.
The presentation below gives a good idea of how slick the final results can look but I also recommend watching the demo videos to see the application in action.