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Keynote for the web

If you're a Mac user, you may have seen Apple's Keynote application, essentially an elegant alternative to Powerpoint. If you haven't seen it, and would like to, you have several options to fill this gaping void in your life, namely:-
a) buy it
b) steal it
c) hover around Mac users in crowded coffee bars, especially if it looks like they are writing a presentation
d) search a popular YouTube style site on the Interweb
e) smoke illegal herbs, and have vivid dreams about it (possibly not very accurate ones)

These are likely to meet varying degrees of failure. But! You now have a viable alternative, as some crazy fools at 280 North have developed a language called Objective-J (a mapping of Objective-C to JavaScript) which makes use of a variety of browser rendering engines (e.g. Flash) to provide a rich user experience. They've then used this to produce a very Keynote-esque presentation app for the web.

Have a play at http://280north.com/Editor/