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Re:Google launching an Online Presentation App at Web 2.0 by schoudha on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @07:47PM (#13877)
I don't think emulating Keynote is the right play. Any online presentation app should be designed to exploit the inherent advantages that web applications have, i.e. collaboration, information retrieval, etc..

I don't think the goal is to replace Keynote or Powerpoint but rather provide software the lets people easily develop bring presentations for a web audience.

As a former iWork engineer, I think some of the stuff Keynote has can't be replicated effectively in a web application.

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Re:Google launching an Online Presentation App at Web 2.0 by JMiao on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:48PM (#14243)
Schoudha's right -- the killer edge for Zenter is making a connected presentation app that leverages the web. Remember the annoying task of importing presentation images? Why not make that easier since you're already in a browser? Things like that.
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Re:Google launching an Online Presentation App at Web 2.0 by omouse on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @08:05PM (#13884)
Oh I didn't mean that it shouldn't try and exploit the advantages of web apps, I just meant that it should make presentations look better, by default, than those awful PowerPoint presentations we always see.
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