SlideShare
Encyclopedia
SlideShare is a Web 2.0
based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenOffice presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded
on other sites. Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to be similar to YouTube
, but for slideshows. The website was originally meant to be used for businesses to share slides among employees more easily, but it has since expanded to also become a host of a large number of slides which are uploaded merely to entertain. Although the website is primarily a slide hosting service, it also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars.. SlideShare also provides users the ability to rate, comment on, and share the uploaded content. The current list of SlideShare's investors includes Venrock, David Siminoff
and Dev Khare..
The website gets an estimated 58 million unique visitors a month, and has about 16 million registered users. SlideShare was voted amongst by the World's Top 10 tools for education & e-learning in 2010.. SlideShare's biggest competitors include Scribd.com, Issuu
and Docstoc
. Some of the notable users of SlideShare include The White House
, NASA
, World Economic Forum
, State of Utah, O'Reilly Media, Hewlett Packard and IBM
.
ZipCasts do not currently support screen sharing with the presenter, a feature available in competing paid services like WebEx
and GoToMeeting
. Additionally, presenters using ZipCasts are not able to control the flow of a presentation allowing viewers to navigate back and forth through the slides themselves.
Jonathan Boutelle is the CTO
of SlideShare and came up with the initial idea behind SlideShare. He wrote the first version of the site.
Amit Ranjan, the COO
heads SlideShare's development team in India and focuses on product management, content and community.
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenOffice presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded
Embedded
- In science :* In mathematics, embedding is one instance of some mathematical object contained within another instance** Graph embedding* In computing, an embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls* In computing, embedding...
on other sites. Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to be similar to YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
, but for slideshows. The website was originally meant to be used for businesses to share slides among employees more easily, but it has since expanded to also become a host of a large number of slides which are uploaded merely to entertain. Although the website is primarily a slide hosting service, it also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars.. SlideShare also provides users the ability to rate, comment on, and share the uploaded content. The current list of SlideShare's investors includes Venrock, David Siminoff
David Siminoff
David E. Siminoff is a prominent Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, along with his wife, Ellen Siminoff. They met when both were students at Stanford Business School, married in 1994, and currently reside in Los Altos Hills, California.-Biography:...
and Dev Khare..
The website gets an estimated 58 million unique visitors a month, and has about 16 million registered users. SlideShare was voted amongst by the World's Top 10 tools for education & e-learning in 2010.. SlideShare's biggest competitors include Scribd.com, Issuu
Issuu
Issuu is an online service that allows for realistic and customizable viewing of digitally uploaded material, such as portfolios, books, magazine issues, newspapers, and other print media. It integrates with social networking sites to promote uploaded material. Issuu's service is comparable to what...
and Docstoc
Docstoc
Docstoc is an electronic document repository and online store, aimed at the business community.Although Docstoc operates in a way that is superficially similar to other online document retailer sites such as Scribd, its emphasis is on technical, legal and business documentation...
. Some of the notable users of SlideShare include The White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
, NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
, World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
, State of Utah, O'Reilly Media, Hewlett Packard and IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
.
ZipCasts
In February 2011 SlideShare added a feature called ZipCasts. A ZipCast is a social web conferencing system which allows presenters to broadcast an audio/video feed while driving the presentation through the internet. ZipCasts also allows users to communicate during the presentation via an inbuilt chat function.ZipCasts do not currently support screen sharing with the presenter, a feature available in competing paid services like WebEx
WebEx
WebEx Communications Inc. is a Cisco company that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications...
and GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting is a Web-hosted service created and marketed by Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems. It is a remote meeting and desktop sharing software that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real-time.- Technology...
. Additionally, presenters using ZipCasts are not able to control the flow of a presentation allowing viewers to navigate back and forth through the slides themselves.
Management
Rashmi Sinha, the CEO and co-founder of SlideShare is responsible for partnerships and product strategy. She was named amongst the world's Top 10 Women Influencers in Web 2.0 by FastCompany. .Jonathan Boutelle is the CTO
CTO
CTO may refer to:* Cancelled-to-order, a postage-stamp cancelled by the postal administration before sale to stamp-collectors* Cape Air Transport, Australia * Caribbean Tourism Organisation* Central Telegraph Office, London UK...
of SlideShare and came up with the initial idea behind SlideShare. He wrote the first version of the site.
Amit Ranjan, the COO
COO
COO may refer to:*Country of origin*Certificate of origin, used in international trade*Chief operating officer or chief operations officer, high ranking corporate official*Cell of origin *Carboxylate, type of anion...
heads SlideShare's development team in India and focuses on product management, content and community.