{"id":1206,"date":"2007-04-20T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/20\/google-office-keeps-on-rolling\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T15:07:40","slug":"google-office-keeps-on-rolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/20\/google-office-keeps-on-rolling\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Office keeps on rolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of days after <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/were-expecting.html\">buying Tonic<\/a>, which gave the company a PowerPoint-style application to add to its growing toolbox of Office apps, Google has announced that it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/04\/20\/google-acquires-marratech-gets-into-webex-territory\/\">buying Marratech<\/a>, a company that makes a NetMeeting-type video-conferencing tool and is based in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_e4r3ws25p4h.jpg?w=525\" alt='snipshot_e4r3ws25p4h.jpg' \/>This isn&#8217;t all that surprising, of course, since Google has clearly been building a Web-based Office suite ever since it bought Writely, which became <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\">Google Docs<\/a>. One thing that surprises me, however, is that the application requires a download &#8212; unlike some of the other Web-based presentation or conferencing apps, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vyew.com\">Vyew<\/a> and Zoho Meeting. I haven&#8217;t tried Zoho Meeting, but I have tried Vyew and it was easy to use and cross-platform (as is Zoho&#8217;s app, since it comes in an ActiveX, Java or Flash version). But what I don&#8217;t get is why Google wqould pin its hopes on something that requires a download.<\/p>\n<p>I know that they could bundle it with the rest of the Google apps that you can download as part of the Google Desktop, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/04\/20\/google-acquires-marratech-gets-into-webex-territory\/\">Mike points out<\/a>, but I still sort of look at Google as being the king of the &#8220;works anywhere&#8221; Web-based app. Moving to something that requires a download is kind of an odd step, I think. Just my two cents. <i>(screenshot via <a href=\"http:\/\/labnol.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/google-web-conferencing-software-has.html\">Amit Agarwal<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of days after buying Tonic, which gave the company a PowerPoint-style application to add to its growing toolbox of Office apps, Google has announced that it is buying Marratech, a company that makes a NetMeeting-type video-conferencing tool and is based in Sweden. This isn&#8217;t all that surprising, of course, since Google has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/20\/google-office-keeps-on-rolling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Office keeps on rolling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}