If you have a Google account, you may be familiar with it’s free online spreadsheet and word processing applications. Now Google has bought a company offering a web based editor for power point presentations by acquiring TonicPoint.
Google expects the tool to be integrated into their online tools by this summer .
Google is certainly making life easier for entering the online marketing world. It used to require special software to “translate” document files into pdf files. With Google Doc’s you can save all documents in a pdf format. While everyone realizes Google is chipping away at Microsoft’s market share (since Office costs a good chunk of change), it’s also affecting adobe.
This is another step forward for small business who will likely appreciate the service and find this does all most people really need to accomplish from documents, spreadsheets or powerpoints.
From Rough Type:
TonicPoint tools allow you to open a PowerPoint presentation with your web browser, edit it, add new slides to it, extract text and images from it, and save the edited version in various formats. What makes TonicPoint particularly interesting, in the context of Google’s ambitions, is that you don’t have to have a copy of PowerPoint installed on your PC to open and edit a PowerPoint file with the tools. You only need the file. You can, effectively, work in a Microsoft app without buying the Microsoft app.
Image courtesy Nicholas Carr’s RoughType (Be sure to read his comment on “parasites”).
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