Google Docs

Finally, the long-awaited Google presentation tool has arrived.



Let's quickly stand out some pros and cons relatively to the classic powerpoint we're all familiar with;

Pros:

  • It's collaborative (several persons can edit the presentation at the same time);

  • It's got a native versioning system;

  • The public presentations have a chat panel, which is cool, if you ask me;

  • It's easily shareable (via email or via invitation);

  • Got nice looking templates (better than Zoho's).



Cons:

  • Limited to imports of .ppt files to only 10 MB (mine usually take more space). I tried to import one 6MB ppt but I got a systematic error from Google;

  • Visualization is web-based only. No pdf/ppt exportations are supported.

  • Shapes aren't available (Zoho show has them);

  • Inserting images allow only locally based files. (Zoho show allows to insert images by file, url, or flickr account);

  • No embedding of html snippets (which allows inserting widgets, YouTube movies, flickr slideshows). (Zoho allows html embedding).



So, in conclusion of this quick unexhaustive review, google docs were revamped and look better than never. This new feature (slides) is a major asset of Google's web-based office suite. Nevertheless, Zoho's slides tool, Zoho show, has more features that make it, so far, the best web-based slides creator.
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Below is a screenshot of the most interesting article of 2013, period. Written by one the most-influentials "good" guys of world, Julian Assange. The article deals about the promiscuity between Google top-notch executives and the White House, and how it affects both institutions policies, at the expense of the people's freedom and will. Below the article I share with you some notes I've taken.

Assange sums it all up to us in two words: "Jared Cohen", and a question "Who is he? ". It's worth it to check him out. I googled him to find out he's a futurist thinker, thinking about the disruptive reach social networks and, now, context networks can attain, world-domination-wise. A megalomaniac thinker surely, with the wits, the will, the intuition, the perception and the goal.

Back in 2005 I was really excited about the web2.0 concepts, the web-based APIs, mashups, and all the new publishing tools that was later to be known by 2008 as "social-media". However, back then, it really wasn't the modern facebook-ish "social-media" model that was tingling my neurones; it was rather the emergent nature of these disruptive new tools such as blogs, wikis and web-based productivity apps such as Google Docs or Zoho.
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I don't know, exactly. In my last post I simply summed up Google to an advertisement company and Apple to a leisure-time company. And indeed, I still think it is what they are, and what they focus first to become, consciously.

Somebody wrote a while ago:

Google is an advertising company that builds popular services that command large audiences.

To which I add:

Apple is a leisure company that builds popular media-platforms that command large audiences of media-consumers.

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I'll be staying three days, in a row, in a big room packed with free wifi and free cable net access, unlimited free pizza, free cokes, free chocolate bars and a horde of PT finest geeks. I'll participate and assist to the biggest festival of creativity in PT geekdom. Missed it last year.

One of the biggest pain in the butt after an exciting conference/workshop/meeting is inputing all your fresh new contacts business cards info into your digital mail/phonebook. This is a problem. An unsolved one too.

Another problem, is that you don't know who, from the meeting, after you gave them your contact, actually checked you out afterwards. You can't tell how many checked on you neither.

Here's an elegant and smart solution to alleviate this problem, provided it gets widely adopted.

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At some point in the foreseeable future I expect to see an elegant merger where a next-gen browser will be the sole platform. But first, the life/body-hacks platform will need to walk the walk it has to walk, and I expect it to be, at least, a five-years march.

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