TechCrunch.com recently ran a story about an upcoming release from Google called 'Presently'. It will be a web based presentation software (think a Microsoft PowerPoint clone) Online presentation software is nothing new to the web. There are already decent releases from Zoho.com (Zoho Show), Preezo.net, and empressr.com in a race to become the first popular. But is this Presentation software ready for big business? Google, late into the race, will be able to harness the power of Google Docs and Spreadsheets in order to make a near complete collaborative Office suite. Clearly, there is a market for web based documents and spreadsheets. Documents, by their nature, need to be collaboratively edited and are largely sent around digitally. PowerPoint (or presentation) decks, in the corporate world, tend to be quite large and graphics intensive, and are viewable despite a lack of internet connection. Therefore, logic demonstrates that any web based version of presentation software either needs to:
- Either be exportable to Powerpoint or Flash so it can be viewed offline, or
- Offer a standalone executable which provides the SAME viewing experience as that provided by the web based solution.
Regardless of how this software evolves, one thing is clear: The more ubiquitous internet connectivity is, the more ubiquitous use of web based software will be.
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