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Not All Presentation Managers Are Created Equal…

Collaboration, Personal Productivity, SaaS January 25th, 2008

Sorry if this post feels a bit tongue-in-cheek. It is. But I can’t help making the comparison when I see both Google and Zoho announcing new features of their Presentation Managers the same day.

We can’t stop adding features! – announces the Google Docs Blog. Today’s newbies are PDF support and adding vector shapes. Some shapes.. the pic to the left shows the available inventory.

The pic below lists the shapes available in Zoho Show:

Add to the above hundreds of clipart items in Zoho Show, all of which, as well as the shapes can not only be moved and resized, like those in Google, but also flipped, rotated directly by dragging them. And of course there’s Zoho’s theme gallery to jumpstart your presentation with… and a zillion more features.

Oh, well… draw your own conclusion. Bias alert: smile_embaressed I am an advisor to Zoho. Don’t just take my word – go and play with Show yourself.

Tags: Google, google docs, google presentations, powerpoint, presentations, presently, zoho, zoho show

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Where is Writely?

Collaboration, Humor September 18th, 2007

It’s funny how bloggers insist on calling Google’s new presentation app Presently. There’s no trace of using this name on any Google affiliated blogs. It wouldn’t be logical, after killing off the Writely brand.

But if Presently perseveres, could we see Writely back? And what does it mean for Google Spreadsheet? Calcly? How about when Google finally releases JotSpot? Jotly? Or would they pick the more toungue-in-cheek GSpot?