SlideShare

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SlideShare Inc.
Type
Founded	2006
Headquarters	San Bruno, California, U.S.
Key people	Rashmi Sinha, Founder/CEO Jonathan Boutelle, Founder/Head Geek Amit Ranjan, Founder/Product Manager
Website	[1]
Type of site	presentation sharing
Registration	Optional (required to upload and comment on presentations)
Launched	2006
Current status	active

SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows over the web.

1 Company
2 Features
3 Technical requirements
4 External links

[edit] Company

The service is run by SlideShare Inc., a startup based in Mountain View, California and New Delhi, India.

[edit] Features

Slideshare supports importing presentations from PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org Impress, and PDF files. The site implements most common Web 2.0 design and interaction patterns. Like many other social sharing services, users are able to add tagging, rate, comment, and embed content.

Once a file is uploaded, it is visible to the public. Terms from slides can be searched via search engines. The user who uploads a presentation can choose to make the slide show available to be downloaded. Slideshare is linked with Creative Commons so various attribution licenses are supported. In addition, these presentations can be retrieved at any computer without need for USB drives or other storage devices. In other words, presentations in Slideshare can be held before a conference for the presenters use and then reviewed afterwards by guests. Like YouTube, a presentation can be viewed in the small screen or take the full screen of a monitor.

[edit] Technical requirements

Flash is required in order for the presentations to be seen properly. The maximum size for a slide show is 50 MB. Shows that are larger, must either be edited or split into two (or more) presentations.