Why bother spending ages choosing and formatting slides for that big presentation when the power of the internet (mostly monkeys on speed) can do it for you? evilpresentation.com pulls images from Flickr tagged appropriately, and builds a presentation out of them. We're careful to ensure that the images are licensed for commercial use, so you can grab a presentation just before going in to that important pitch meeting!
Or, why not substitute a rival's presentation for an evil one at the last minute? Just another weapon in your sneaky arsenal against those hard-working fast-climbers.
We use Flickr "machine tags" to identify the images available. You should tag possible opening images with evil:purpose=start, general-purpose images with evil:purpose=middle, and ending images with evil:purpose=end. All images should have a Creative Commons license that allows commercial use. You will be attributed in a presentation for any images used. If there aren't enough images of the type requested, only those available are used - we won't show the same image twice. Also, we'll never show more than 500 of any given type.
You can add in additional information such as your name and affiliation, and the title of your presentation, into the URI itself (allowing bookmarking these details while keeping the images random each time). You can also control exactly which types of images are used when.
The images-configuration is in the form type=number;type=number,…. For instance, start=1;middle=6;detail=2;end=1 would choose one evil:purpose=start image followed by six evil:purpose=middle images, two evil:purpose=detail images and finally one evil:purpose=end. (We have only provided start, middle and end images so far.)
If you POST to these, you will get a redirect to the final (cacheable) URI for your generated presentation; if you use GET then the presentation will be returned directly, and won't be cacheable (but has the advantage of using randomly-selected images each time).
POST requests also parse the supplied entity, which should be of type multipart/form-data (to ensure non-ASCII characters work). You can set the following fields: presenter, affiliation, title; and images.start, images.middle and images.end to select how many of each type of image you want.
If you set images.order, which is a comma-separated list of types, you can use other types of image – for instance, using start,middle,detail,end, you then need to provide values for images.start, images.middle, images.detail and images.end to give the numbers of each image type to use in the presentation.
Configuration options provided in the URI override those in the POST request.
This site should work in all browsers except Opera, which doesn't work with S5 for reasons I can't be bothered to sort out. It clearly worked at some point; I'm guessing Opera decided they'd get clever and change the way their META extensions work, so it's really their own fault. The creators of evilpresentation.com will not offer opinions on its compatibility with your particular business.
evilpresentation.com is a product of evilmediagroup. Presentation system adapted from S5 by Eric Meyer. We feel it necessary, for contractual reasons, to point out that "this product uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by Flickr". Just so we're clear.