Google's Slideshow of Interesting Things 72
Kilrah_il writes "Google's Creative Labs came out with a slideshow of interesting things on the web. In the slideshow you will find 'a lot of interesting HTML5 apps, iPhone apps, visualization tools, 3D projections, art projects, creative YouTube videos, crowdsourcing services and many other interesting things.' It's basically a collection of fascinating little projects people have made and then distributed to the internet at large. Guaranteed to ruin your productivity for today. You can view it with Google Docs."
Slideshow? (Score:5, Interesting)
Whats wrong with a list?
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Jesus... you actually appear to be being serious
Mom! Dad! Don't Touch It! (Score:2)
"It's EVIL!"
-- Love, Kevin.
Re:Slideshow? (Score:5, Funny)
Quick, where's the "-1, Someone let a Manager loose on Slashdot" modding option? :D
All I can say is "Death by PowerPoint". That and "You can do good quality presentations in HTML or PDF, if you wanted - less is often more".
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That and "You can do good quality presentations in HTML or PDF, if you wanted - less is often more".
Well, yes. Google docs slideshow *is* HTML.
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True, although that wouldn't explain people having issues with plugins. The GP was talking about PowerPoint, though, where as I was thinking of S5 [meyerweb.com].
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They always break my bones.
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What's wrong with a CLI? Why have a GUI? I think the presentation is more engaging and accessible than if it were just a simple list.
Re:Slideshow? (Score:4, Informative)
With a list you can immediately pick out the things that seem interesting. I don't want to have to click to 120 pages to find 5 that interest me.
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That's good for you, but most people prefer a visual representation of the objects. A list of ~120 interesting projects/sites is daunting and boring. Most people don't have the patience to read the description of each subject. In a presentation, OTOH, things are shown to you and are thus easier (i.e. more interesting) to browse through.
Thinks Cover View vs. a list of all the albums you have.
could have done both (Score:2, Insightful)
they started with a list first
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Who says a list can't be visual? The objection is against having one page per object.
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I'll take the list thank you. The problem with people today is that they don't learn to read properly. I know that learning to read is hard but it saves you so much time in the long run ;)
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Could you please say it again, this time with pictures? Thanks.
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LOL :)
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The problem with people today is that they don't learn to read properly.
No. The problem is when you give them a list they aren't sure what part of it to look at first.
Re:Slideshow? (Score:5, Funny)
You've not worked in a corporation and sat through powerpoint presentations, you haven't, have you?
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Many people don't want to waste time with 120 single image per page slideshows. A list to point to each slideshow can easily work as well, or I'd rather see it on a single page that I can quickly scroll up or down. Why must I turn on javascript to view a png or jpg. I prefer that my javascript be kept off.
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what's wrong with a clay tablet, then? I tell you. CLI and tablets are less accessible than a html list in a web page. Captain obvious at work.
list >> presentation when it comes to browsing the content.
presentation >> presentation accessible through google docs because the login procedure has no sense for stuff meant to be public.
Of course google chose google docs for a sound reason, which is increasing fidelization. They are not evil but this is not good either. Microsoft does that leveraging i
Re:Slideshow? (Score:5, Funny)
Too long; Didn't slide
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A list is best suited to textual content.
A slideshow is better suited to videos/pictures.
Guess which the presentation contains.
You can view it with Google Docs (Score:2, Informative)
No, I can't view it with Google Docs. Apparently it requires some plugin or a cutting edge browser (but not too far off the beaten path). What the hell is wrong with people? This is content which would work perfectly fine with completely static web pages. Massive FAIL, Google.
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Unfortunate. It genuinely rocks.
I suspect it'll work on any decent HTML5 compliant browser, but in the meantime find someone with a working Chrome install.
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It says
The bad news is that Google Docs has just encountered an error.
The good news is that you've helped us find a bug, which we are now looking into.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.
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Google Docs: Blocked by Websense.
they're afraid we'll upload corporate secrets just so that we can collaboratively edit documents.
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slashdotted? (Score:4, Informative)
Oh dear we seem to have broke Google, ah well back to work then ;-)
Re:slashdotted? (Score:5, Interesting)
Hey, I'm quite proud now ;-)
I got:
The bad news is that Google Docs has just encountered an error.
The good news is that you've helped us find a bug, which we are now looking into.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.
In the meantime, if you'd like updates on this and other issues, try visiting our Google Docs Help Group: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs [google.com]
Sorry, and thanks for your help! /CosmoStorage.Query to 10.237.134.79:8182 [DEADLINE_EXCEEDED]
- The Google Docs Team
RPC layer error [DEADLINE_EXCEEDED]:
Re:slashdotted? (Score:4, Informative)
It worked fine for me right after Slashdot posted it.
Now when I try, Firefox wants me to download some sort of zero-byte file named "view" instead of show me a web page.
Which is cool: I didn't think it'd be possible to slashdot Google, but it seems to have happened.
Good job, folks! Keep up the good work.
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Oh dear we seem to have broke Google
Think of it this way. When Google becomes sentient, and tries to take over the world, we now know how to shut it down.
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Can't you just ... (Score:2)
... Google it?
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oh the irony. (Score:1)
Slashdotted - remember this moment (Score:5, Funny)
And even if they do not believe us, when they say "grandpa, stop beeing silly", we will know it was true.
Or to quote someone a little more famous than me:
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words,
CmdrTaco, Anonymous Coward,
Scuttlemonkey and Jeff Bates,
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Slashdot's Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered,
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he to-day that clicks this link with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That clicked with us upon Slashdot's day.
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or close the wall up with our nerdy dead!
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And gentlemen in England now a-bed
It's 13.00 here. We were clicking too.
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>To have grandkids that means you have to have sex. I don't see this happening with anyone reading this page.
I'm reading this page and I am married.
Oh... yeah... I see your point...
Of course, It crash. (Score:2)
These documents are colaborative. This means any change and status are redistributed in a pseudo-P2P network. ... the browser can't, and the systems on google servers seems not designed for that.
Probably the system can work optimally with 30 persons "editing" the same document. But 15000 or whatever is the number of slashdotters,
Wen It was the last time you needed to have real time cooperative editing of a document with other 15.000 dudes?
Theres wikipedia, but thats not realtime, and at most 2 persons are e
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Um, there is this feature called "view only" in Google Docs.... I'm pretty sure they used it.
System of Systems can do the mundane tasks (Score:2)
I, for one, welcome Google helping me make my coffee, drive my car, navigate to my work, send me meeting reminders and read and filter my email...all before I even step in the office or the hom
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Working link (Score:1, Informative)
This link works (for now): https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Abmo0iWBO2gEZGY3cnc3dnpfMzM4Y3o2bmduZDY&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 [google.com]
Seems a little amateurish for an official Google presentation, though.
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yeah, well that didn't last long. Seems /. opened another shock and awe and Google...and cried "Mission Accomplished"
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The bad news is that Google Docs has just encountered an error.
The good news is that you've helped us find a bug, which we are now looking into.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.
In the meantime, if you'd like updates on this and other issues, try visiting our Google Docs Help Group: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs [google.com]
Sorry, and thanks for your help!
- The
Google has great taste.. (Score:2, Funny)
Such vision, such beautiful artworks
Andrew
My computer already is bootless (Score:2)
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Let me help you find the comment page you thought you were on [slashdot.org].