I tried this invitation only service to share powerpoint slides and embed in a blog . I had made a presentation to IIM – Ahmedabad students and used these slides.
I am going to see if I can embed the slides in this blog entry
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Hey Guys, thanks for all the kind words! It is still very early days yet, but we’re very happy that so many people are finding our site useful.
Can’t wait till we can make the site content open to the general public!
Oh, yeah…this is a cool app…it was a song for even a Private Equity & Venture Capital guy like me to embed it in my blog. Had a lot of fun watching my intro presentation into my flagship blog and in its links.
Cool stuff, Jon / Amit. Gimme more of the kind…!
Krish
I believe they will do very well. SlideShare solves two problems elegantly: sharing – the ability for content creators (bloggers, academics, etc.) to interact with a wide audience and discoverability – through folksonomy/tagging.
Furthermore, they have two big markets – the web and the enterprise. Although they are currently on the web, there is no reason for them not to sell an enterprise solution that resides behind company firewalls. Any medium sized s/w company, for example, would have hundreds of thousands of internal/confidential PPTs. But it is often very hard for other employees to discover them.
All the best Jon/Amit.
So this service lets you upload and convert PPTs to Flash and lets you embed the snippet into a web page?
To my knowledge, there are at least a dozen software packages that handle the PPT to Flash conversion – from freeware providing basic options to commercial software like Articulate Presenter that lets you retain animation, edit the Flash file and add in voice, video etc.
Not sure if this service uses any of these packages or has created their own conversion tool – but in any case, the only incremental value is the facility to upload the file to a public web server hosted by Amazon, tag it with metadata and let others view it from there (either directly from the URL or as an embedded object with a web page) – it is going to be interesting to see if this socialization is as relevant to users of PPT as it is to consumers of video files…
Alok,
It was very easy to embed file in blog. Cut and paste some code. Uploading the PPT file and getting it converted to flash by Slide Share took time.
I read the review by Krish in the comments above which is excellent.