Comments on: Slideshare Adds Audio Synchronization

By: kevin’s blog » Going beyond Ajax with… both Ajax and Flash?

kevin’s blog » Going beyond Ajax with… both Ajax and Flash? — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:57:08 +0000

[...] anti-technologies can really work together. As a demo of their new presentation sharing platform, Slideshare uses a presentation on Ajax and Flash to show us how this combo may be better for humanity than even peanut butter and [...]

By: Charles Freedman » Blog Archive » Going beyond Ajax with… both Ajax and Flash?

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By: Agoracom

Agoracom — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:55:14 +0000

Michael, we have used articulate to market our services and our sales have skyrocketed ($1.5M) thanks to these slick presentations. We’ve been using it for over 2 years now, so it appears they are far ahead of Slideshare.

Best,
George

By: Hunter

Hunter — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:50:54 +0000

Be careful when viewing their site. The blog portion appears to be badly infected with “Backdoor.PHP.RST.H”.

By: Dan York

Dan York — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:23:06 +0000

As a beta user, I’ll mention that the audio sync tool does work extremely well.

When I speak at conferences, I usually record the audio (if allowed to do so) and make that available later as a podcast recording (typically “Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast” if I am speaking about VoIP security). I’ve also made slides available for my listeners to download… but listeners have always asked if there was some way that they could easily know when I moved to the next slide.

This new “slidecasting” interface now makes it VERY nice to be able to mesh those slides and the podcast audio so that listeners can view the slides in sync with the audio. From a producer’s point-of-view, it’s also great because it reuses my existing podcast MP3 file and in fact each time someone listens to it in the slidecast it pulls it from my server, which results in me seeing stats for those downloads as well. All in all I’m so far quite impressed!

By: Arnab

Arnab — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:13:25 +0000

Nice feature, I’m sure a lot of people will find it really useful. Good to know Slideshare is innovating beyond the conventional presentation/slideshow space.

By: Matthias Zeller

Matthias Zeller — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:06:00 +0000

Rashmi and Jonathan,
congratulations on getting this important feature completed! I know audio synch is a hard problem and I will definitely try to add some voice-over to my existing slide share presentations.

By: rashmi

rashmi — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:04:21 +0000

Alex,

Audio has been our most requested feature. And we do have plans to do a mobile version. Just wait!

By: Alex Linhares

Alex Linhares — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:51:51 +0000

Now if only someone (APPLE?) will come up with a gadget to let me take my slidecasts with my iPhone/iPod, and I don’t have to bring along my laptop for every single presentation out there… all it needs is to plug into power, VGA, and a remote control.

By: Alex Linhares

Alex Linhares — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:45:23 +0000

I remember asking them for this feature when I became a user. I can’t quite point out why, but I’ve always preferred their service over zoho. Many of my courses are available there, some in English. It works beautifully, students download what they want without bothering you (!), it’s embedded everywhere, etc.

I think that now they have a real chance of taking off big time. The only thing better than that for a Univ. Professor is Buzzword (BTW, when is techcrunch going to mention that it’s finally “out”?).

By: Bas Timmers

Bas Timmers — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:21:06 +0000

Another good application is http://www.voicethread.com. You insert images to your own desire and add audio commentary to it. Works really simple and smooth!

By: Jonathan Boutelle

Jonathan Boutelle — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:27:51 +0000

We’re pushing out final changes over the next couple of hours … so by tomorrow morning everyone should be able to make their own slidecasts.

Thanks for the kind words, gettit. And I DO need to work on my presentation style (for the record, I wasn’t planning on showcasing this particular talk quite so publically). ;->

By: BeingParents

BeingParents — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:11:17 +0000

The web has come a long way;yet, it returns to its humble beginning. I am not bumping Web 2.0 but simplicity is the key to success. PP was popular before web 2.0 and it will remained popular after web 2.0( and after the semantic web). Score one for MS.

By: gettit

gettit — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:03:57 +0000

That is a lovely interface. Seems like it works pretty well with this presentation too, although he needs to work on his public speaking if he’s fronting this technology. I’m way worse, just saying…