Using web apps is becoming increasingly popular - even entire online office suites. This is all part of the same school of thought as chromium and chrome OS - we only need the cloud. By creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations online we make it easier to collaborate on files, publish them on line, and ensure compatibility over all platforms. Lucky us.
Unfortunately, some are lead to believe that the only online office tools around are microsoft office web apps, google docs and zoho - which are basically traditional offline office suites rewritten in javascript with a more minimalist approach. In fact, there is a wealth of web apps out there that make much fuller use of their ethereal abode - and take office software to completely new places.
Prezi is a superb alternative to all the most popular presentation apps - both on and off the cloud. The traditional slide by slide, bullet point by bullet point presentation leaves little room for using the screen to your advantage, but prezi takes a different approach, placing all the pictures, text, videos, shapes and diagrams on one canvas and allowing you to zoom in to different areas. This allows you to group related objects together by keeping them close, demonstrate importance by varying size, and visualise a process by flowing through different sections.
Naturally it's difficult for me to describe how it works in words when it's essentially all about visuals, so here is the opening tutorial offered by prezi.com - later tutorials cover exporting, collaboration, publishing, grouping ideas and layering objects.
Sorry about the annoying voice!
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