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SlideRocket Launches With Google Drive

By John Rode on April 24, 2012

We are thrilled to announce that SlideRocket has launched integration with the newly released Google Drive. With this announcement Google and SlideRocket have introduced a new level of content viewing, editing and collaboration.

Google Drive and SlideRocket – a Presentation

A Big Day For SlideRocket, Google and The Cloud

SlideRocket users who choose Google Drive will enjoy expanded presentation collaboration, single sign-on to SlideRocket from Google Drive, and the ability to save SlideRocket presentations alongside (literally) all the other files you load into Google Drive. Google Drive will help SlideRocket users create and share with even greater impact.

There’s Much to Love With Google Drive

Google Drive enables storage and sharing of documents in the Cloud, and syncs them with updates you make from your desktop or any other device. Google Drive also integrates with powerful applications (like SlideRocket), so accessing them is only a click away.

Google Drive is delivering on an important SlideRocket goal. To banish the version control nightmare of people running around with outdated versions of documents, managing multiple applications all with different passwords, and dealing with giant desktop files that are a headache to share.

SlideRocket and Google Drive Are – a Seamless Match

SlideRocket works seamlessly with Google Drive. You’ll be able to access SlideRocket with just a click from Google Drive. And you can manage sharing and collaboration from Google Drive as well without ever having to log-in to SlideRocket.

SlideRocket users who access SlideRocket via Google Chrome will be prompted to add SlideRocket the first time they visit Google Drive. Users who access SlideRocket via the Google Apps Marketplace should first add Google Drive from the Google Chrome Web Store and you will then be prompted to add SlideRocket.

We hope you are as excited about the integration of SlideRocket with Google Drive as we are!

32 Comments »

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  4. Colin

    April 28, 2012 @ 1:58 am

    I won’t be using this. From Google Terms of Service…

    “Your Content in our Services

    …When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.”
    So Google can legally copy and communicate my content, if THEY choose to do so. Google adds…

    “The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.”

    And if you believe that, then it is reassuring. They then go on to state…

    “This license continues even if you stop using our Services…”

    So thanks Google, but no thanks.

  5. John Rode

    April 30, 2012 @ 2:47 pm

    Hi Colin,

    Thank you for the feedback. All SlideRocket presentations are hosted by SlideRocket. And all SlideRocket users can set their presentations to “private” so that others can not view them. Here is a link to our Terms of Use = http://www.sliderocket.com/legal/terms.html

    - John

  6. rob

    April 30, 2012 @ 9:48 pm

    Too bad your product is horrible and now I can’t uninstall it from Drive. You’re worse than Google.

  7. Marco

    May 1, 2012 @ 7:59 am

    it looks like a good way to help store big files. If I understand it correct I could connect my google Drive and upload large video-files. They won’t eat up space from my SlideRocket account yes?

  8. Barry

    May 1, 2012 @ 8:02 am

    Adding to Drive only seems to create a new SlideRocket account using my Google credentials (I use a different email for my SlideRocket Account), great for new users but seems a shame for your existing customers

  9. John Rode

    May 1, 2012 @ 8:39 am

    Rob,

    Tell us what you don’t like about our product. We welcome constructive criticism.

    - John

  10. John Rode

    May 1, 2012 @ 8:44 am

    Hi Marco,

    You can load large video files into SlideRocket if you would like to use them in your presentations. They will count against your SlideRocket storage limit. Loading your videos into Drive would be a good idea for videos you don’t want to use in SlideRocket right away.

    - John

  11. Marco

    May 2, 2012 @ 12:06 am

    Ah, I see. Thank you John. Right now SlideRocket has storage enough for me (and I’m a heavy bandwidth user). I don’t see a real need for Drive, maybe in the near future. Keep up the good work! (And –if I may be so bold– Please add the ability to display RSS-feeds). That would allow me to use SlideRocket as a narrow-casting tool).

  12. John Rode

    May 2, 2012 @ 10:46 am

    Thanks for the idea Marco. I will share it with the product design team. Let us know if there is anything else we can help with.

    - John

  13. Brett

    May 2, 2012 @ 3:03 pm

    Congratulations on the partnership with Google. Looking forward to creating even better presentations for my college courses, with the ability to sync to my Google Docs through Drive. Diggin’ it.

  14. kelvyn

    May 5, 2012 @ 3:15 am

    Like sliderocket, but it seems like overkill for simple PDF viewing on GoogleDocs or Drive

  15. Razvan

    May 6, 2012 @ 10:07 pm

    I don’t need SlideRocket to view my PDFs on Google Drive i just need the old way to view the documents. Pkease provide info on how to remove it

  16. Al Mc

    May 8, 2012 @ 6:43 pm

    I need to upload my pdfs without slide rocket the way it was before. It is too slow & cluttered!

  17. Theresa

    May 9, 2012 @ 3:01 am

    Hi,
    I just install your product on Google Drive and try to open a pdf file.
    It just don’t work.
    Your webside is opening, I can see the sign “Importing presentation” and that’s all.
    Nothing else heppend.

    So, is it possible to remove sliderocket from my drive or not?

    Thank you for the answer
    Theresa

  18. Theresa

    May 9, 2012 @ 3:33 am

    Ok I made it.
    May be your product is great, but it is not OK for me to wait 5 minutes for opening a pdf file.

    have a nice day
    Theresa

  19. mary

    May 9, 2012 @ 11:13 am

    SlideRocket lite is not syncing / not recognizing Google.docs. I have several pps and ppt docs there I want to work on in sliderocket, which permits adding audio.

    Any suggestion?

    - Mary

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  21. John

    May 19, 2012 @ 1:44 am

    I also think that SlideRocket is overkill for opening a pdf file. I realized that I just have to right-click and choose “Open With -> Google Drive viewer” to avoid opening SlideRocket, it just life more complicated. The Google Drive Viewer should be the default for pdf files.

  22. John

    May 19, 2012 @ 3:14 am

    Ok I figured out that you can go to “Manage Apps” from settings (gear icon) and you can choose whether sliderocket is default or not. This is great, users can decide how they want to interact with applications. Thumbs up to both Google and Sliderocket!

  23. Laura

    June 12, 2012 @ 8:30 am

    How do I get rid of this? I don’t want to open my pdfs in slide rocket…

  24. Andy

    June 14, 2012 @ 8:51 am

    I DO NOT want to open my PDFs in Slide Rocket.

    How do I get ride of this nightmare

  25. John Rode

    June 15, 2012 @ 8:42 am

    Andy, Laura, John, Theresa, Al and everyone else,

    You’ll be happy to hear opening PDFs with SlideRock in Google Drive is now a secondary option, not the default. I believe this addresses your concerns.

    Thank you for your feedback. It was quite helpful that you shared your views here.

    - John

  26. Michelle

    August 9, 2012 @ 6:01 pm

    I cannot get SlideRocket to show in my Google Drive as an option to create a presentation. I’ve done the steps that it says to do, and SlideRocket just logs me in automatically instead of asking for permission to my drive. Any ideas?

  27. John Rode

    August 10, 2012 @ 9:45 am

    Hi Michelle,

    I don’t have a quick answer for you, but if you email support@sliderocket.com they will get it figured out for you.

    - John

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  29. Kris Reyes

    October 3, 2012 @ 10:23 am

    Is there a way to use pictures located in my Google drive in my presentations without it affecting my storage quota on sliderocket?

  30. John Rode

    October 4, 2012 @ 10:09 am

    Hi Kris,

    That’s not yet possible, but is something we have been discussing. I will certainly pass your feedback on to the Product team.

    On the plus side, if you have an image in your SlideRocket Media Library it only “counts” once against your storage no matter how many presentations you put it in. And same is true of videos, music, etc.

    - John

  31. JP

    October 25, 2012 @ 3:39 pm

    I have a pro account with sliderocket and it was previously linked to google apps. The ability to login using g apps disappeared last week as did Sliderocket from my Google “More” tab that links to my g apps.

    Reinstalled sliderocket to apps and it shows in “More” tab, but is now set up as a brand new instance. That is, it does not link to my pro account. How can I re-enable my pro account with g apps login?

  32. tomy

    November 3, 2012 @ 11:14 am

    I have used SlideRocket for School presentations and it is great. It has many more features than Google Punch, though I wish there was a way to instantly import Google Punch presentations into SlideRocket instead of export/import which seems quite glitchy. The audio is one advantage over Drive but I would request the feature to stretch audio throughout a presentation which I did not see an option for. I like the ability to embed presentations, though for that purpose maybe an HTML5 alternative should be underway instead of Flash. For my purpose of simply showing some pictures it shouldn’t be that complicated. As well I don’t know if this is normal or not but on Google Drive I changed the title and make it public, but it still would show my old title and private on SlideRocket. I had to do it in both spots. Thanks,
    Tommy

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