GreatWebGuySelf-proclaimed greatness is a hard thing to prove.

I’m sure the bloggers will be chattering about this one this morning, especially the Ajax-centric blogs. Hats off to Google for another well done Ajax application. Google launched their Powerpoint equivalent in their Docs suite, which is getting closer and closer to providing a viable online replacement, or at least a supplement, to Microsoft Office.

Within a few minutes I was able to create a presentation and view it full screen with no visible difference to running a Powerpoint presentation, other than the nice collaboration feature built into the sidebar. I was then able to publish the presentation to be publicly available on the web - My first Google Presentation Their application seems to have the same type of theme as the rest of their Docs Applications, you’re able to upload or email in an existing Powerpoint presentation, you’re able to share with other Google docs users and collaborate on the creation of the presentation, you’re also able to play the presentation in a collaborative environment. The application seems to be well built and extremely performant.

In addition to the new application, there’s word of additional features, the UI for google’s docs applications has consistently gotten better and better. I think Google provides a good example to the world of Ajax and Web 2.0 websites, progressive enhancement is definitely the way to go, get a good working and performing application in place first and then move on to enhancing the UI later. I’ve been very impressed with the quality of the applications Google has developed. I can’t wait till Firefox 3 and offline applications, I’d love to see these application converted over to work offline, maybe they’ll do something early with Google Gears, watch out Microsoft, it won’t take Google 4 years to come out with a new version.