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Google Presentations Coming This Summer

// April 17th, 2007 // No Comments » // Technology Bits

Google announced today that presentations are coming to Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This was of course rumored a couple months ago, and certainly expected (or eagerly awaited…) by the tech industry.

From the blog:

we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we’ve just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition as we add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Looking into Tonic a bit more deeply lead to the FAQ on tonicsystems.com:

“Tonic Systems is a San Francisco-based company that provides Java presentation automation products and solutions for document management - Tonic Systems Builder, Tonic Systems Filter, Tonic Systems Transformer, Tonic Systems Viewer, and JarJar Links. Features of their products included text extraction for indexing documents, presentation creation capabilities and document conversion tools.”

My only fear is that the technology they are buying as part of the Tonic acquisition is Java based. Docs and Spreadsheets is much lighter as pure javascript and xhtml. I trust Google will strike the appropriate balance and get this new application integrated and working nicely. As soon as screenshots begin to emerge, I’ll be sure to post those.

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Google Presently?

// February 7th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Technology Bits

Garett Rogers on ZDNet points out an interesting section of the Google language file in Google Docs.

PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:
  1. var MSG_VIEW_PRESENTATION="View presentation";
  2. var MSG_PRESENTATION_SETTINGS="Presentation settings";
  3. var MSG_DOC_TO_PRESENTATION="Convert document to presentation";
  4. var MSG_DOC_TO_PRESENTATION_HINT="Once your document is converted to a presentation, you can insert slide breaks using Insert> Slide from the main menu.";
  5. var MSG_PRESENTATION_TO_DOC="Convert presentation to document";
  6. var MSG_POPUP_BLOCKER="Presently is unable to launch your presentation in full-screen mode. Check your pop-up blocker settings.";
  7. var MSG_NEW_SLIDE_TITLE="New Slide";
  8. var MSG_UNSUPPORTED_BROWSER="Unsupported Browser Presently doesn't support Opera and will not function properly. Would you like to continue anyway?";
  9. var MSG_SLIDE_INDEX="Slide %1 of %2: %3";
  10. var MSG_NEXT="Next";
  11. var MSG_NEXT_HINT="Space, Enter, N";
  12. var MSG_PREV="Previous";
  13. var MSG_PREV_HINT="Backspace, Del, P";
  14. var MSG_ZOOM_IN="Zoom in";
  15. var MSG_ZOOM_OUT="Zoom out";
  16. var MSG_ZOOM_RESET="Zoom reset";
  17. var MSG_TOGGLE_AUTOFIT="Toggle AutoFit";
  18. var MSG_PICK_THEME="Choose theme:";
  19. var MSG_THEME_BLANK="Blank";
  20. var MSG_THEME_GOOGLE="Google";
  21. var MSG_THEME_LIQUID="Liquid";
  22. var MSG_THEME_MONOCHROME="Monochrome";
  23. var MSG_TOGGLE_TOOLBAR="Hide/show toolbar";
  24. var MSG_EXIT_PRESENTATION="Exit presentation";
  25. var MSG_END_OF_PRESENTATION="End of presentation. Are you sure you want to exit?";

This tips the hand and shows they are intending to have an application called "Presently" and it will have theme capabilities. We would assume it will export and import from Microsoft Powerpoint...

On a side note, Google has already reacted to this by pulling the above quoted language from the file.

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