Comments on Christian thoughts in a tech world: Dynamic presentations with Jessyink

Hi Chris, Thanks for your comment. I'm aware that...

2009-10-14T01:41:18.484-07:00

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your comment. I'm aware that there are many open-source technologies to do presentations, and S5 looks very nice. What I like in Jessyink is the ability to have prezi-like effects, what is called "views" in Jessyink, which allows to zoom & turn as you present a slide.

I've been partial to S5 myself. Instead of doing S...

2009-10-13T22:23:03.500-07:00

I've been partial to S5 myself. Instead of doing SVG, it's based on XHTML+CSS+Javascript. It also degrades gracefully into a nicely formatted presentation summary.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

Hi razo, Let me first say again that I was very i...

2009-10-13T07:03:50.094-07:00

Hi razo,

Let me first say again that I was very impressed by prezi.com when I tried it. It's a great tool, but whenever I can, I tend to use open-source technology, for many reasons.

Well sure I can technically share my prezi presentations with people, provided:
- they get a prezi account
- they have flash installed
- they have an Internet access

I've gotten the offline editor, but it seems I can't use it unless I get a paid account for prezi. Even then, from what I understand, it will download my presentations from prezi.com, so the Internet access issue is still there, for several reasons:
- I need to be able to work even if I don't have an Internet access
- I would like to make nice presentations for my company, but they won't let me put private business contents on a third-party website

There's other issues I didn't mention in my post actually, for example:
- What happens if prezi.com closes? How can I be sure that I won't lose all my work, and that I will be able to edit it again? I'm pretty sure my svg files will be playable even if Inkscape stops being developed, and even if that happened, I could code a new program that follows the standard.
- I can't get the offline player in prezi to display full screen on Linux, and I actually have to use wine to make presentations.

On the Jessyink website, some users have suggested that it would be great to have an online interface to generate these SVG. Maybe that could be a good market move for prezi. Not that I don't believe that prezi can make good money even with Jessyink around, open-source products can go unnoticed for years in the Windows world ;-)

Hey thanks for the post! Please let me clarify a ...

2009-10-13T05:58:00.745-07:00

Hey thanks for the post!

Please let me clarify a few things here:

- I can't really share my presentations with anyone - yes, you can. On your My page just click any prezi thumbnail you have created, then the share tab. You can even invite people to collaborate in a password protected email.

- Prezi offers an online and offline editor as well. You can download your prezis using both. You can also upload them on a thumbdrive or a mem stick and carry wherever you go. Even present them without any additional software or internet connection.