TechCrunch40: Google Product Launch

Jennifer Mazzon from Google is here to show us the latest Google Docs: Presentations. There is a ton of press about the launch yesterday. They have changed the name to just Google Docs.

• simultaneous editing
• goal is to keep it simple and easy
• you can share docs as collaborators and as viewers
• when viewing a presentation you can chat with others watching the presentation

It was a quick demo – looks nice.

Mike asks – what’s your reaction to Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra? Jennifer: I think its great and the internet is a big place and competition makes everyone better.

Mike asks – do you feel like an offline version is important? Jennifer: our users have been telling us that they want offline access.

Mike asks – we organized this conference using the google docs tools – how is google going to address security for the enterprise? Jennifer: we are all really concerned about security and we are in our google apps system is secure – talks about how the user is responsible

Jason asks – im addicted to it for using it documents – excel is the thing that keeps me in office – is there a solution coming for lag for power users? Jennifer: we care about performance – if its slow you wont use it.