Sunday, February 4, 2007

Google Presently for Presentations?

Ionut Alex. Chitu reports that Google is working on a presentation application as part of their existing suites of document tools like Google Docs & Spreadsheets. While tinkering with the Google apps, Ionut found a couple of messages in this file (which doesn’t contain those messages anymore, at least not here) which show that the current name of this application is “Google Presently.” Some of these messages read:

• “Convert document to presentation”
• “Once your document is converted to a presentation, you can insert slide breaks using Insert > Slide from the main menu.";
• “Convert presentation to document”
• “Presently is unable to launch your presentation in full-screen mode. Check your pop-up blocker settings.”
• “New Slide”

We can think of this as the currently missing Powerpoint-competitor in Google’s quest to move all kinds of applications online. I can’t imagine “Presently” stays as name for this, though – neither do I believe the name “Google Docs & Spreadsheets” will be around for long. This is a Google Office in the making, though Google may not want to alert the competition too much just yet by calling it by its name.

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[Thanks TomHTML!]

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