Web services like Google Apps, which allows users to edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online, take the workload off an individual's machine and put it instead on Google's massive servers.

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Duarte puts the ideas to work in her day job, running the firm Duarte Design in California, which produces presentations for the likes of Cisco, Twitter, Google, Nokia and General Electric as well as politicians and pundits.

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The latter falls under the Google Docs rubric, which includes hosted word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and data storage.

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