ok, so google has added "presentations" to it's online docs arsenal...good...a free service in my opinion is what powerpoint should be...lets face it, how many "presentations" built in powerpoint have you yawned your way through over the years? personally speaking, i've been bored and unimpressed many many times over.

So is a free online resource to create dullness really needed?...well...if its free, I suppose its ok, for too long, powerpoint has been the standard for people putting together a presentation...now i could understand this if powerpoint was a free product...but it isn't, people choose to use it for presentations and people like me...and probably you...get bored with the results. I am of the understanding that powerpoint was developed as a means for microsoft developers to share processes of how technologies they were building would flow...i may be wrong? and powerpoint has become the easy to use app for all manner of presentations to be shown.

Given what could be accomplished with director and nowadays...flash, if a corporate presentation is to be produced, why on earth would powerpoint be the chosen delivery method?...because its free?...nope...because its the most effective method?...nope...I'll tell you why...in my opinion, corporate bodies will use it because it's all they know to choose when faced with the "give a presentation" dilemma.

There is a false economy train of thought going on here, people think that they can put a powerpoint presentation together themselves, saving money...well...think about this, if a company director puts this together themselves, how long will it take them to produce a finished article worth looking at? and what is the hourly rate of that directors time? say, they get their office junior to do it...is that really the best solution to show their company in the best light?...no is the answer.

These kind of things are best done by specialists in multimedia utilising flash, after effects etc to produce useable and re-useable products with high production values to best show the company, product, service etc in the best light

so, thank you google for adding another product to your free apps, but I sincerely hope I'm not going to have to sit through a whole lot more dull transitions, aliased text and horrid images, video etc produced by people who's time is REALLY better spend concentrated on more focussed business development issues.

google has done a fantastic job in adding these apps but the problem may well be abuse of these new free tools...as a web developer, multi-media specialist, my job, I suppose is to advise and show our east coast interactive folio as a comparrison, as arrogant as this may sound....there will be no contest!