Google Launches Powerpoint Competition, Web Ads for Mobile Devices 107
fullstop writes "Google has finally launched their online presentation tool to complete its office offerings at Google Docs." Relatedly several users have also mentioned that Google plans to start selling ads for cell phone-targeted websites. "The company said that its new product, AdSense for Mobile, would establish a cellphone advertising network in which Google would match ads with the content of mobile Web pages, much as it does online. Other Internet giants, including Yahoo and AOLTime Warner, as well as some start-ups, have also created advertising networks tailored for mobile phones."
Not shabby (Score:5, Informative)
Still, it seems that the adoption of Google's tools is pretty slow. Most people I talk to are still skeptical of them.
Example is reasonably impressive (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not shabby (Score:5, Informative)
Re:too risky, no multi-display presenter tools (Score:3, Informative)
About the second point, you are absolutely correct - when it comes to that small small subset of people who actually use that functionality. I've seen it demonstrated but can't remember one single live occasion when someone has actually used it. Usually the presenter stands in the middle in front of the presentation and if he/she needs to sync the talk they just glance over their shoulder. Many even make a show of pointing to stuff on the big screen while they do the talk. Oh, I'm sure it is used, and you can cite multiple occasions, but I don't see that as a common case.
Offline backups (Score:3, Informative)
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Online collaborations (Score:4, Informative)
I work on a scientific collaboration that spans several institutions across the country. We use weekly teleconferences for specialized subgroups and occasional online meetings of the whole group to keep coordinated on what each other are doing. For these occasions we're always dealing with distributing presentations over the internet in a reasonable way. We usually post PDFs or HTML on the web, but we've had problems in the past with our own servers going down during telecons. We're also often editing our talks at the last minute, and we can have problems where someone downloads their PDFs before one of us posts his or her last changes.
For collaborations like ours this is a very intriguing product. I trust Google's servers more than my group's, to be honest, and we can always post backups on our own server. A consistent-looking presentation that I could easily edit right up to the last minute (or even collaboratively) is appealing. I grant that there are other solutions which may be better in some cases and that I'd probably never use this for a conference talk, but it's still intriguing for groups in our situation.
Re:Offline work? (Score:4, Informative)
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I hope that's interesting to you.