"Google's March 2006 purchase of the popular online word processor Writely, along with its steady accumulation of other capabilities, had already led Gartner to conclude that Google was in the process of rounding out an application portfolio. We suggested then that Google was likely to
buy a small company focused on online spreadsheet and presentation technology (see "Google Ratchets Up Microsoft Face-Off With Writely Buy"). Google has continued to expand its collection of search capabilities (including photo, desktop, blog, geographic-location and video search), collaboration tools (such as e-mail, blogging and instant messaging) and mobile support. During 2006, we also expect Google to target a Web-based presentation application, such as Thumbstacks (see http://www.thumbstacks.com)"

Via : http://www.gartner.com/resources/141300/141326/google_signals_real_goals_wi_141326.pdf

Most likely, Google may buy thumbstacks.com and provide the powerpoint or you can say the presentation facility too!

thumbstack is nice.. actually the limit is cant import / export to file (only save pages in html) pro's are : google maps plugin , image from flick

I reckon they will build their own service for this one. I don't think a powerpoint service would be too hard to manage. They have probably already done it and are waiting to spring it on us like they did with Spreadsheets.

You never know... this SSD application could be "Slide Show Designer" rather than "Simple Storefront Distribution":

https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?service=ssd

Slide Show Designer? Google's powerpoint? Cool.

I would prefer to have some kind of Google Viso or Google projects first. With the Picasa web tool, one can make presentations already. The pics have to be designed only in another application yet.