Back in 2006 when we first introduced SlideShare, we called it a mix between PowerPoint and YouTube. Today, that statement gets even more accurate.
SlideShare will now allow users to embed YouTube videos into their Flash-based presentations – an oft-requested feature that has countless potential uses. Users will now be able to include personal introductions to their slideshows, offer video that supports the contents of the rest of the presentation, or (in the case of startup pitches) include demonstrations of a website’s features. In the past users wishing to include video in their presentations have been forced to include links to separate video files, which sort of defeated the point of having a dead-simple way to share PowerPoint presentations.
The feature seems to work as advertised, though I have a few gripes. It isn’t currently possible to make a video auto-play (though CEO Rashmi Sinha says this will be coming soon), and users will also have to deal with YouTube’s standard ‘feature’ of linking to a video’s YouTube address whenever you accidentally click outside of the ‘play’ arrow. Other than that, it’s a great addition to the product. We should also note that while this is the first time SlideShare has supported embedded video, the site has allowed users to embed audio alongside their slideshows since 2007. You can check out a sample slideshow with YouTube video embeds below.
Last month SlideShare also launched an impressive new cloud-based feature that ties your native PowerPoint client your SlideShare account.
Other players in this space include SlideRocket, DocStoc, Scribd, SlideSix, and SlideBoom.
Awesome, Slideshare is awesome.
Now my question is… where is the business model?
Or are they just going to end up like Youtube without the backup of Google?
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“where is the business model?” web 2.0 don’t need business model! LOL, It’s called banners model, hehe,
They are getting paid well through ads with the # of views they get. I’ve suggested to John and Dave to put a donation button next to each slide that would be split between the uploader and slideshare.
Microsoft is working on something evven better! as usual
May be Slideboom would be a better option for more interactive presentations.Slideshare is the best option for text and Slideboom for Text+Interaction.
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That’s awesome! I think the ideal way out is for Microsoft to buy them and port the whole thing to Silverlight / SharePoint.
It’ll be a tiny dip in their budget, but a huge win in terms of getting a huge audience and userbase from simple users of MS products (e.g. Powerpoint) into the actual “money” MS ecosystem (e.g. Sharepoint / Exchange).
They already have this with the office live add-in though ( http://cli.gs/GEYyh1 ) I can’t see them buying them out anytime soon when they have a competing product for there own web service they control.
I am not a big time money maker though so it’s possible I could be wrong lol.
“Other players in this space include SlideRocket, DocStoc, Scribd, and SlideBoom….”
Don’t forget about SlideSix which you reviewed just a few weeks ago (http://www.tech...sharing-system/).
Only we let you record audio/video directly within our Flex based management console.
Here is a little more detail as to why our implementation of embedded audio and video is superior to SlideShare:
http://cfsilenc...Is-Still-Better
Nice work indeed, more importantly with the way it was publicized
Yes this is definitely a nice addition to powerpoint. Often I have had to switch between videos and presentation slides while doing a demo at a client’s side. Being in the electronics business, it is always important to show video demos during presentations and this will be great!
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Thing is, that begs the question why not just to record the entire presentation with presenter audio using e.g. Camtasia, and upload it to YouTube to market (or whatever your goal is) there.
Don’t get me wrong, SlideShare is a great research tool, as well as a way to show to a select crowd of people how smart your company is, etc. But in the end, the number of people with the patience to flip through a presentation will always be somewhat limited, video intro/outro or no…
Every presentation differs from pace… you can’t really preset the timing…
nice idea, might be usefull
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It isn’t currently possible to make a video auto-play (though CEO Rashmi Sinha says this will be coming soon), and users will also have to deal with YouTube’s standard ‘feature’ of linking to a video’s YouTube address whenever you accidentally click outside of the ‘play’ arrow.
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You can easily overcome these limitations by using the YouTube API which will let you stream YT video’s in any way you want…
(just in case Slideshare reads this)
Re: a possbile revenue generation model is lead generation. I summarized it on Twitter http://twitter....atus/1136169122
Cheers Thomas
Not bad.I think i’d better have a try!!
The best model is Freemium. Make the technology so easy and so powerful that everyone uses it. Then let companies pay to remove the ’slideshare’ banner and put their own…..
Great addition – I love slideshare!
SlideRocket rocks for creating online presentations, so where do they stand on this? Anyone tested their Flash integration feature?
http://sliderocket.com
slideshare is a great tool, the youtube integration is excellent news
“and users will also have to deal with YouTube’s standard ‘feature’ of linking to a video’s YouTube address whenever you accidentally click outside of the ‘play’ arrow.”
This isn’t accurate: Before you push play, clicking anywhere on the video thumbnail (even off the play button) will start the video, not link to the YouTube website.
Unless you like to double click the internet. Then you have other problems to worry about.
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Slideshare is fantastic. It can even support Keynote ‘09 files directly.
haven’t yet try SlideShare. I think I should try it after reading TechCrunch review.
I use to use slideshare but I found http://www.powershow.com works better since it has multi-media features that slideshare does not.
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now i am using http://www.slideserve.com because i found slideserve player better.