Google Presentation

Internet September 26th, 2007

Posted at Maor David’s blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/maordavid/archive/2007/09/26/google-presentation.aspx

Google updated recently their Applications suite with the addition of Google Presentation. It was added to all of docs.google.com including Google Apps For Your Domain, which I also use.

Nice things in this application

  • It looks just like PowerPoint!
  • Great Revisions support – many copies are saved all the time, so you’ll never lose anything.
  • You can start a presentation then give folks a URL and they can join up and watch.
  • Upload a PPT .
  • You can chat about the presentation being watched.
  • Save as a ZIP file. They’ll create a “self-contained” ZIP with a single HTML file and the assets you need to run the presentation using any browser.

But there also annoying things:

  • No spellcheck support.
  • Can’t link to pictures online, have to upload.
  • No animations, shapes, auto-layouts, wizards, etc.
  • Very basic. No PowerPoint-like experience on the web.
  • JavaScript errors.
  • You can upload PPT, but you can’t Save As PPT.

    Nice application but I think I’ll wait to the next versions.

    Also posted at: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/maordavid/archive/2007/09/26/google-presentation.aspx

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    1. Maor David-Pur | June 22nd, 2009 at 23:15

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      Google updated recently their Applications suite with the addition of Google Presentation. It was added to all of docs.google.com including Google Apps For Your Domain, which I also use . Nice things in this application It looks just like PowerPoint!

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