Google Presentation

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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