Presentations ... About time

I've been really enjoying this tool at Google internally for quite some time now, but I can now finally mention it to folks. Google just launched Presentations as part of the online documents suite.

For me, the other documents stuff didn't mean as much - firefox on linux has a hard time with the heavy DOM in Google Spreadsheets, and while docs was nice - I didn't really collaborate on documents much (and when I did, there is the wiki). Besides, I prefer the HTML document or better yet the *gasp* plain text document.

However, presentations are more difficult to manage and lend themselves to collaboration. So many times have I worked with more than one person on a presentation, mailing the file back and forth and having to manually merge changes. This is much much better.