Just in case there are people who still doubt that Google’s Chrome OS may just be all we need in an ultra-portable computer, here is yet one more example showing that more and more things that previously required a proper desktop application running on a conventional operating system, can now be done through the web browser.

My professor and thesis adviser Dr. Davide Bolchini sent me the link to this video today, and I have to say I was rather impressed. Not entirely by the transition of the slides or the choice of Bruce Springsteen as background music (as it was on the original video —The video above was “enhanced” with music by music mastermind William Orbit). I was really impressed with the fact that it was apparently done in less than 10 minutes using something called Stupeflix Editor: an online video tool.

Davide inserted some of the images that were published with the paper we co-authored for the July-August issue of ACM’s Interaction Magazine called “Paper-in-Screen”. Sure, it’s not exactly iMovie ‘09, but think about it: the ability to make quick slide shows or videos (music and all) this quickly? Brilliant!

Just about the same way I was impressed with Meebo, Google Docs, Adobe Buzzword and various other online “white board” web sites when they came out, this is yet another compelling example of where we are going currently are with personal computing.

I played with the interface whilst trying to change the Springsteen song and it was really easy to understand. Uploading William Orbit’s “Radioharp” was lightning fast. Just about everywhere I clicked generated an expected response —overall a highly interactive UI, even on apparent “white space”. Think about how someone may try to move something using a finger on an iPhone and… it moves! Same feeling.

Generating Mp4 videos (both large and medium) crashed almost immediately after I started to “compile” them (although this may have been because I was using Safari at that moment —it’s been crashing on me heaps lately.) Generating an FLV video, on the other hand, was a breeze.

If anything, this could be a tool anyone could use to get an idea across quickly and simply. I could see Stupeflix being really useful in prototyping, experience design, or simply short online, embeddable presentations.

Give it a go and see what you think. Not only it’s got great potential —it’s indeed great, as is.