On stage is Google for the formal presentation of Google Presently. See our previous summary here.
New name, Google Docs.
Demo includes pics of Michael Arrington, nice touch.
The sharing features of Presently being emphasized, includes group chat.
Questions: Michael asks what Google’s take is on Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. A: compeitition is important and great for everyone.
Q: offline version A: users want it, no announcements yet.
Q: how is Google going to address data security A: we are all concerned about security, Google is aware of the issue, ultimately though, users should have a great password.
Q: still clunky compared to excel A: was not designed for power user, design to be easy to use and quick
Q: limitations A: 10mb per presentation.
Q: backup for the apps? if docs are lost, what to do A: no one yet has lost docs, not even one case. Google makes copies of all data, redundant systems
There are no drawing tools? How are you supposed to draw?
Please stop this live blog thingy. Not useful to anybody. Just post a wrap once it is done.
Do you think users are curious to see what is going on the heaven every second? Does this conf influence the stock market as it happens.
oh please, stop this crap and wait till it is over.
Does anyone use Google Docs, i mean really use it not just try it out?…cause it seems so un-user friendly…maybe it’s just me!…
I was a “heavy-user” of google docs. I have MSc students scattered all over Brazil, from the rich south, up to the Amazon, and we have drafted many many chapter thesis on it, polishing things afterwards with ms-word.
But now I heart Buzzword. I think it’s just incredible and I hope some bigshot will acquire them as soon as possible, so I can finally rest in peace over their servers!
I’ve used google docs to keep group spreadsheets organized, but I’ll agree it’s not as easy to use as it should be. Especially formatting bullets in a list – it’s rough.
Also used Google docs for collaborative document writing. Very useful. The presentation app is too stripped down. I need some drawing tools. The Google page creator does a better job than this app for creating a “slide”.
Alex, if you have to polishing the document afterwards with ms-word, why do it with MS-word in the first place? what’s the point using G docs then?
Re: #7
My guess: To share the docs while the content was being written.
Gaggle is readying an online PowerPoint compatible creation and presentation tool, their code name for it is “Pissantly”.
I only have one simple message for these wannabe MS drones and anal-retentives:
“KEEP YOUR FREAK’N GREASY FINGERS OFF MY PPT FORMAT!!!”
I can understand your wanting an application like PowerPoint (it’s wonderful), I can understand your jealousy of Bill and I, I can even understand why you guys are all so brainwashed. But, PPT belongs to Microsoft! We will go over every bit and byte of whatever you “release” looking for any violations of our codebase, if we find even the slightest copying, I garun-darned-tee you that all hell will break loose on you guTards!
“THIS FAR, NO FURTHER!!!”
The cloud is comin’ baby!
It’s gonna’ rain allllll over you!
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It seems Google always rolls out something and let general public as their “QA”s. I believe the Presently will get to one point that will be useful. Just my 2 cents.
Seriously… Google took up a spot on the TC40 dossier?
The best part is that Google didn’t entirely win anything for their new product/service — I hope Google doesn’t begin to spread itself too thinly. The key to the success of Google Docs and Spreadsheets is talking about collaboration, collaboration…What are some good collaborative painting tools as well as possibly AutoCAD-like tools??