office is dead? #4: Thumbstacks.com
Friday, July 21st, 2006Thumbstacks was one of the first web-apps for building simple presentations online. since its review on TechCrunch in march 2006, the AJAX-application hasn’t received any of the announced updates, leading to the conclusion that Thumbstack is a prove-of-concept currently in hibernation.
the featurelist includes text-boxes which can be moved and formatted freely, bulletlists and enumerations, image-import and template-slides (=content-elements which are automatically displayed on every slide). moreover, Thumbstacks offers two gimmicks: the flickr-integration, which included my images in slides without even entering my flickr-credentials (using the browser-cookies) works great. the google-maps plugin is a nice but rather useless idea, as I wasn’t able to customize the displayed map-snippet by entering coordinates or searching for non-US places. unlike many other office web-apps, Thumbstacks offers decent print-functionality. on the downside, it lacks any import or export-features.
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