Presentation buffs can now get their fix when they’re on the move, thanks to the mobile website SlideShare just launched about an hour ago. Simply point your mobile phone browser to m.slideshare.com and you’re good to go.
Note that the mobile version is in beta at this point and was hacked together at Open Hack Day India last month (using Yahoo’s Blueprint platform), so there may still be some technical issues, warns the company.
At the mobile site, you can take a look at the latest, featured and popular presentations if you’re using any smart phone and/or on all phones that have Opera Mini installed, and you can also search for slidedecks. There’s no requirement to download or install software on your phone, and it lets you log in to your account to view your favorite slidedecks and messages from your contacts. Comments are currently not displayed yet, and it doesn’t support upload from mobile phones, but other than that it works like it should; on my iPhone at least.
Update: here’s a short presentation about SlideShare Mobile from … SlideShare
To the best of my knowledge, this is the only mobile website that does this at this point, and considering SlideShare is one of the most popular cloud-based presentation sharing services there’s bound to be a heap of great content you can watch on the go. If there are any others, speak up in comments.
SlideShare’s been doing some cool stuff lately, like launching a free Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 plug-in that allows for one-click publication of your presentations to the cloud, and support for embedding YouTube videos in SlideShare-hosted presentations.
The company is based out of San Francisco and raised over $3 million in capital to date, from VC firm Venrock and a number of prominent angel investors like Dave McClure, Mark Cuban, Saul Klein, Jonathan Abrams, Hal Varian and more.
(Thanks to Christian Heilmann for the tweet tip)
Splendid. It might also be worth mentioning that 99% of this was built during the Yahoo Open Hack Day in Bangalore earlier this year. It is good when geeks get heard in their companies.
I did mention that
If it makes sense, you might want to embed this presentation introducing the site: http://www.slid...-the-go-1161829
Done!
Yeah skipped that somehow. Sorry, just wrote the posts about the London Open Hack day, so I got over excited
@Chris yeah and we even won ipods for this at the Hack Day!
Cellular is getting so popular this days..
i am going to start my own website related to famous website,but tell me can i put websites logos directly in the post .is it legal? suggest me
Amazing what a group of smart engineers can hack together in 1 day.
From Yahoo http://develope..._bangalore.html
“Open Hack Day Bangalore is over and we had a blast. The plan was easy enough:
1) Go to Bangalore, India and hire a room
2) Put wireless up
3) Give a bunch of tech talks
4) Let the hackers loose
5) Help the hackers when they got stuck
6) Pick winners, thank everybody.”
Well done on a great slidesahre hack!
Amazing what a group of Indian spammers can hack together in a few minutes:
Open Spammer Day Bangalore is over and we had a blast. The plan was easy enough:
1) Go to Bangalore and hire something
Get lost
2) Feed the goats
3) Talk to the goats softly
4) Let the goatss loose in the backyard
5) Help the spammers who got bored and sleepy
6) Pick the winner and dance a little
7) Write stupid comments on TC and keep spamming
Very, very well done! Indians are the best!
Anjali Sen
From India
@Arun J @Chris very cool, guys. Looks pretty good on Opera Mini on the Blackberry as well. Would love to get to a Hack Day event!
Strange, I just tried SlideShare on my mobile, actually Nokia 5310.
But it said first download Opera Mini.
But I was trying to open SlideShare in Opera Mini only!
Wonder, if enough testing was done before writing this post!
My apologies, next time I’ll take a couple of weeks to test all of these: http://www.oper...i/download/all/
Since we’ve just launched this as a beta, we’re still testing it. We’re not sure why it didn’t work but this seems to be common with the version of Opera that comes pre-installed on many Nokias. Try downloading the latest version from http://www.opera.com/mini
Nice work SlideShare! I’ve been playing with a mobile version of SlideSix, but you beat me to it! Looks really impressive.
Keep raising the bar for presentation sharing communities. Competition leads to innovation, and in the end the users are the real winners.
Interesting.. Nowadays, I can’t really live life without my mobile phone.
Nice idea, but it really should have been built for the iPhone. Who wants to show tiny images optimized for a flip phone?
Looking forward to more from these guys, they do cool work.
Slideshare is getting a huge traffic from the TV episodes and now they’re having more and more from from launching a Mobile site. They’re doing great!
from tv episodes? what are you referring to?
Nice post! Check out my site too at http://macmaniapodcast.com.
Thanks for the info! I’m always looking for cool new stuff to add to my phone making it even more addicting
I played with SlideShare on my iPhone today, and it was an amazing experience.
This SlideShare product sucks. It is a horrible user experience and, seriously, what is the total addressable market for people looking for PPTs on their iPhones (or any other phone for that matter).
Best of luck to them. Looking at presentations with a tiny cell screen must be painful, but hey, it appears people want this service.
Cool you may know surf on your mobile phone