Google Launches Powerpoint Competition, Web Ads for Mobile Devices

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @02:08AM from the never-a-dull-moment-in-mountain-view dept.

fullstop writes "Google has finally launched their online presentation tool to complete its office offerings at Google Docs." Relatedly several users have also mentioned that Google plans to start selling ads for cell phone-targeted websites. "The company said that its new product, AdSense for Mobile, would establish a cellphone advertising network in which Google would match ads with the content of mobile Web pages, much as it does online. Other Internet giants, including Yahoo and AOLTime Warner, as well as some start-ups, have also created advertising networks tailored for mobile phones."

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Re:Not shabby by pato101 · 2007-09-18 02:55 · Score: 5, Informative

The thing comes with a "save as zip" option, which saves the html, images and javascript files, cleanly classified into folders, that allow the presentation to be shown completely offline.
Re:Not shabby by Rhaban · 2007-09-18 03:04 · Score: 5, Insightful

It also doesn't support transitions. Actually, I think that's a good thing. If there's one think I hate more than poorly designed powerpoint presentations, it's poorly design powerpoint presentations with over-animated special effect transitions.