Google Presentations

I played around with Google Presentation today. The collaboration feature is amazing. No more having to meet with your group members to finish a Powerpoint presentation. I really think it can take out Powerpoint in its current state if they can reduce the CPU usage a little. The update feature is a beast and was using 20-40% of my cpu on a blank slide with one other person connected.

Presentations is lacking video and sound support which is a good thing IMO. I haven’t seen a Powerpoint yet where sound/video adds to the presentation. Each presentation has a 10 megabyte limit so movies are pretty much out of the question anyway.

Google could improve by adding the chat feature to the editor thats present in the presentation mode. Presentations also needs a way to lock down changes on slides and add commentary/notes that doesn’t show up in the presentation. The right click feature is also broken when you are clicking on selected text objects.

The good news is that its very simple to use. Sure it lacks some of the more powerful things that power users want but its probably easier to use for a beginner compared to Powerpoint.

Tags: google | powerpoint

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