In case you haven’t heard, Google Docs very recently added presentations to it’s list of offerings. I took Google Presentations for a spin and it’s impressive. The system was responsive. You can do almost any of the basic things you can in Powerpoint. Sure, there aren’t as many bells and whistles, but I don’t use those anyway. And what’s really neat is that you can run through the slideshow online. And you can invite others to view it online as well. That could make for some great cyber meetings. But there was also some bumps as the service rolled out.
It seems there was an issue with emails being exposed on the service. Not exactly what you want happening on a new service. Folks over at the Google blognewschannel put up a demo presentation on their blog. The chat service inside the presentation exposed the users’ email addresses. They have a picture of the approximately 450 email addresses they harvested during it. Thankfully, they aren’t the type of folks to exploit this type of thing. It took Google approximately a day to identify and fix the problem. But they did fix it - which is good. As the previous blog post states, Google should make sure that type of thing doesn’t happen in the future.
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