Comments on: Google’s Power of Presentation

By: Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:19:59 +0000

[...] Systems makes online presentation software. Official Blog Post | TechCrunch | GigaOm| [...]

By: GigaOM Enter Zenter, Google Office is now complete «

GigaOM Enter Zenter, Google Office is now complete « — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:58:57 +0000

[...] the madrassa of the Web 2.0 crowd. In Microsoft world those are known as PowerPoints. Google had earlier bought Tonic Systems, a start-up that was working on similar technology but was more focused on backend technology. With [...]

By: Online Office Suites « Cynically Speaking

Online Office Suites « Cynically Speaking — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:14:45 +0000

[...] TechCrunch and GigaOm all ranked very high on my chucklemeter that day for their allegations that some web based toy was [...]

By: Juankar en Estado Puro

Juankar en Estado Puro — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:02:16 +0000

[...] us news regarding Google’s future plans for their online application suite. At the Web 2.0 Expo CEO Eric Schmidt said Google will release a PowerPoint-type presentation application, slated for this summer. Then, VP [...]

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How google is going to change your future - 1st Paragraph .com — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:34:45 +0000

By: Pali Madra

Pali Madra — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:32:54 +0000

Time needs to be given to Google to develop their services. I think the world is expecting too much from Google too soon and do not forget what Google is trying to achieve, it is trying to change habits of people and that takes a lot of time. A company like Kellogs has estimated that it would take them 25 years to be profit making in a country like India where people have been having wheat bread in breakfast since ages.

I think the team at Google is very smart and because of some purchase it should not be said that their plans are going to go bust. I'm sure there is lot of commotion in Microsoft because of this latest development.

By: Google Apps That Could Be Coming « Andrew’s Blog

Google Apps That Could Be Coming « Andrew’s Blog — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:08:24 +0000

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By: GigaOM » What apps are in Google’s future?

GigaOM » What apps are in Google’s future? — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:27:00 +0000

[...] week we heard a lot of talk about Google Presentations. My guess is that with their Marratech deal, they are going to announce some [...]

By: jonah

jonah — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:58:40 +0000

When you have as much money as Google does, you do EVERYTHING. And 99% of it will be losers.

By: Laura Glynn

Laura Glynn — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:53:31 +0000

Good Point, Brian! The 60s and 80s had “free love” and this generation has “free information”.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:56:35 +0000

Laura - totally agree with you but the bigger question is this - does Generation Next care?

Good post...

Brian

By: Nick Hawkins

Nick Hawkins — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:28:46 +0000

I like Google. They make good products (Gmail, Gcal), bought other good ones (Keyhole/Google Earth and Picasa). I’m not sure about Google Office. Sure, it’s neat, but after about 20 minutes of playing with it, I left it at that. It’s cool, but…

I don’t understand at what market Google Office would be aimed at. The workplace? The home? If I buy a PC from a big box vendor or even Apple, it comes with a rudimentary word processor.

I’d like to see some actual usage stats from Google on who actually uses it. We can take that and compare it against all the other office suites out there (MS, OO, etc).

By: Laura Glynn

Laura Glynn — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:47:54 +0000

gmail, googleoffice, googe desktop, analytics…It’s all free but at what price? Granting Google access to any and all of your content? Google is great and easy to use but don’t use it for anything you would like to keep private. See terms of service…

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/terms.html
Your Rights

“…By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, modify, publish and distribute such Content on Google services for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services. Google reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google services and use that Content in connection with any service offered by Google. Google furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion…”

By: Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:48:27 +0000

I have a suspicion that Google Office is not about “beating” or even “misleading” Microsoft. It is about serving a different user group then Microsoft currently targets. The next billion PC users who will be buying $100 PCs aren’t going to shell out for MS Office. How will they do the things most of us take for granted with these low-cost, Wimax-enabled terminals? Maybe they will use OpenOffice. Or, maybe they will find it simpler to use Web 2.0 style web apps. I think this is what Google — and other companies in the Web 2.0 arena — are betting on. These low-ARPU customers (whether garage-dwelling or developing-world) will create community groups and small businesses, and do amazing things to unleash all the creativity that is not being tapped into today. They will find these, to us high-ARPU types, sub-standard web apps to be useful tools for sharing visions, calculating bottom-lines and, yes, even making sales pitches. And when they grow up and become successful, bigger, maybe even global companies, they may never see the point of desktop application suites and huge licensing fees. It’s a gamble on being an ASP for high volume, low margin business — not where Microsoft plays today.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:36:47 +0000

Google confuses people.

1.6B for You Tube, 3.1B for DoubleClick and Google Office???

Maybe their strategy is to make this WWW world even more complex, and then try to sort it out by Google Search, make money via Ads. Seems sleazy tactics.

As Nick points out - Who is using it?