Google Presentation Software Now Available

Dual WAN ^ | 17 September 2007 | Wettham Clum

[ShadowAce]

We just found out Google Presentation is out! The Google Docs is now completed!

With the introduction of Google Presentation, now you can collaborate a presentation online. This has been a missing piece of Google office suite. They even change the name from Google Docs and Spreadsheet into Google Docs.

Multiple collaborator can edit the same presentation at the same time. The software is just amazing since it uses a highly compatible CSS so you can view it in all browsers. You can also upload images and changes backgrounds using the theme selector. When you can done with the presentation, you can also choose to save it as a ZIP package for offline archive.

We find this following example from our friends at PePLink. We are able to do a IM base webminar within minutes. This is not currently available using Microsoft PowerPoint unless with extra software or web application. Collaborator can also take part leading the presentation at anytime by the press of a button. For example, a marketer can introduce a market overview of a product while a sales can take control of the webminar and lead the part on pricing structure.

See it in action now!

I am just too excited and i have cannot help but to share this with you. This will definitely overshadow the Zimbra bought by Yahoo yesterday and will haunt Microsoft Office unless they provide a simple webminar option.

[ShadowAce]

[mnehring]

self ping to review tomorrow

[Jet Jaguar]

ping for later read.

[Jet Jaguar]

ping for later read.

[capt. norm]

The links lead right into a commercial for their product.

[Reaganesque]

Bookmark.

[nevergore]

BTTT

[JennysCool]

“Webinar” is one of the most ridiculous words ever.

[Sonny M]

ping

[Southack]

Google Docs...where every piece of every proprietary corporate secret can be queried by Google insiders long before you are ready to go public.

[Petronski]

Has there been a thread about this?

By STEVE LOHR
Published: September 18, 2007
I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft’s dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.

The company is announcing the desktop software, called I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, at an event today in New York. The programs will be available as free downloads from the I.B.M. Web site.

I.B.M.’s Lotus-branded proprietary programs already compete with Microsoft products for e-mail, messaging and work group collaboration. But the Symphony software is a free alternative to Microsoft’s mainstay Office programs — Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Office business is huge and lucrative for Microsoft, second only to its Windows operating system as a profit maker.

In the 1990s, I.B.M. failed in an effort to compete head-on with Microsoft in personal computer software with its OS/2 operating system and its SmartSuite office productivity programs.

But I.B.M. is taking a different approach this time. Its offerings are versions of open-source software developed in a consortium called OpenOffice.org. The original code traces its origins to a German company, Star Division, which Sun Microsystems bought in 1999. Sun later made the desktop software, now called StarOffice, an open-source project, in which work and code are freely shared.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

[prov1813man]

Google is like the mark of the beast, cant operate without it but it is run by evil commie rat bast@@rds who think they know whats best for the rest of us.

[JerseyHighlander]

ping a ling

[fred4prez]

Just from an enterprise point of view, Google’s online apps have a ways to go before gaining wide acceptance. I work in the IT department of an health care agency, and there’s no way in the world we’d put our data into an online data store, due in part to HIPPA regulations.

[ShadowAce]

Google is like the mark of the beast, cant operate without it...

I never use it--I use Clusty instead.

[amchugh]

Commies with a $167 Billion market cap. Huh.

[KoRn]

"I work in the IT department of an health care agency, and there’s no way in the world we’d put our data into an online data store, due in part to HIPPA regulations."

I also work for IT at a health care organization. I can't imagine someone having private patient data as part of a presentation anyway. That in itself would be a HIPPA violation no matter which presentation software was being used.

[fred4prez]

I guess I was speaking more of the Google suite of apps in general; they have online data stores where docs can be stored and shared; sort of an online “My Documents”.

[KoRn]

"I guess I was speaking more of the Google suite of apps in general"

I see. What you said is also true. I can't imagine a transcriptionist, for instance, using an online word processor to do their work. Such a thing couldn't possibly be HIPPA compliant because that would mean transmitting patient data over the internet and storing it on a 3rd party's server. Not good...