Ref Tech Rob

Yesterday, Google added presentation software to their web based office suite. After an initial review, it seems that the focus of the software is web collaboration, as you can see in this short example . I'm not sure what happens if the presentation is left online with no moderation, though. The format is very basic so far, with limited export options and no ability to integrate sound. The most surprising thing to me was that I didn't see any evidence of the ability to integrate the presentations with other Google products, namely Picasa. The ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of presentation changes is a definite plus, however All in all, It's an interesting start and I am sure that they will add more features soon.

In her Librarian in Black blog, Sarah Houghton-Jan reviews Spresent's web presentation application. I worked with it for a few minutes yesterday and found it to be extremely easy to use. If Google can come close to Spresent's ease of use and functionality with their upcomingaccomplished something. In about three minutes, I was able to produce and embed this silly presentation:

Google just announced through their official Google Blog that they will be adding presentation software to Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This nearly completes their web based assault on Microsoft Office.