Comments on: Say Hello to Google Presentations

By: John Woodring

John Woodring — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:42:37 +0000

I move between 2 to 3 computers and carrying a flash drive can be a pain at times. I use Google Docs to work on drafts of documents or blog postings since I can access it anywhere. I do use Word to polish up a document on occasion plus I have Open Office as well.

By: Dress Down Friday

Dress Down Friday — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:02:07 +0000

[...] First, not only does google offer a really nice word processor and spreadsheet for free, but now you can also make presentations (just like in powerpoint). Second, they’ve started their own bookmarking and sharing service [...]

By: Min Thu

Min Thu — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:15:28 +0000

I have tried using it. It is not that bad. We can also import powerpoint slides easily. Hope to see more features.

By: Joe Pemberton

Joe Pemberton — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:39:53 +0000

Proposed tagline, “Making “ugly” even easy and free.”

Now everyone can create presentations as ugly as PowerPoint and they can do it for free.

By: Sia

Sia — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:01:20 +0000

Well I’ve been contemplating switching over to google and now with co-workers spread around the world, I can definitely see the advantages. Besides, I’m tired of seeing the “please enter your product key” message.
By the way, I am from northern Greece a little city called Kastoria but born in Montreal, CA. I miss being there terribly. Where is your family from ? Hope to hear from ya !

By: Crystal Bradley

Crystal Bradley — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:32:10 +0000

My biggest beef with Google Docs is the lack of a true collaborative experience. Docs that I hide, delete or file do not crossover for other users. I understand the reasoning why to not do this automatically, but the ability to turn off this sort of functionality would be amazing. If this functionality was available my web development team would be able to utilize Google Docs more often with less frustration.

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blogpost » Google Presentation — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:57:23 +0000

[...] publishing. It also integrates with Google Talk, so users can chat about the presentation. (review) permalink | [...]

By: Bruce Keener

Bruce Keener — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:53:34 +0000

I am definitely a fan of Google Apps, and especially like the collab capability. I’d really like to see them gain more into corporate environments, but I think most corps are going to need guarantees of data security and server reliability.

By: Travis Vocino

Travis Vocino — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:33:32 +0000

It's nice and a great web application. It just can't compare to Keynote though. I also think there's a lot in the future of web-based apps via Flex, like what Scrapblog is doing. We have a ways to go before we can really use web-based replacements to installed software.

By: Chris Meisenzahl

Chris Meisenzahl — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:18:37 +0000

This is great, looking forward to trying it!

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By: c. wess daniels

c. wess daniels — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:56:55 +0000

Paul,
I saw your tweet about this earlier, and I instantly googled “gPresentations” I didn’t find anything at all. So I am glad you posted about it, because I didn’t put the two together. It looks awesome.

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So This Is Your First Year In Seminary? Tips, Tricks and Other Advice — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:13 +0000

[...] Check out google documents, which not only has a documents app, but spreadsheets and a brand new presentation application. You can also download the highly popular free open source processors Open Office and [...]

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:42:09 +0000

If you see the future then this is how future work will be done. You will not have to pay licenses for software, neither need to have large hard drives to install them.
Also think of the new options that the web apps give to us.
We can share easier. Take our work with us. Don’t have to panic if our hdd is dead.
The most common and reasonable question for the web apps is the security. How much secure and protected are our data.
For example, can the government, any government demand the data for “examination” ?
Is the data hacker safe ?
This is the dilemma here.

By: Blake Brannon

Blake Brannon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:06:53 +0000

The presentation mode is a cool feature, but In all I don’t think this addition will make me switch entirely over to Google Docs.

I only use Google Docs to host files I need to share online. The only benefit I see with Google Docs vs MS Office (aside from the huge delta in price!) is the ease of collaboration. But even with that, I haven’t been able to use Google Docs for my group projects because the formatting, equations, formulas, etc quickly exhaust Google Docs capabilities. Furthermore MS Office is on every computer I ever sit down to.

From my experience, the Internet is more likely to go down than my HDD fail (and I’ve had several HDD failures). Even connected to the GT network, I’ve had two major “No Internet” days in the past few months. Man would that suck to have a project due and I couldn’t work on my report b/c it was on Google Docs.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:54:40 +0000

I’ve already switched… Google Docs is a blessing! I couldn’t stand anymore on Microsoft Office for Mac (Rosetta…) and has heavy needs on collaborative tools. THIS was the answer, and still is.
The addition of Google’s presentation tool is a welcomed update, but I’d like to be able to build my own template (in html/css). It lacks sexyness, but it’ll do the trick!
Still, I’ll have my Pages/Numbers/Keynote trio inside my dock, it’s always useful, esp. if I have no Internet connection.