Have you discovered these features yet ?
Oct 5, 08:39 am PST
It’s been about 24 hours that SlideShare went live and we’ve got a lot of feedback, suggestions and feature requests from users. We are looking into those and trying to prioritise. In the meanwhile, here are some useful features to know, if you haven’t discovered them already.
Permalink an individual slide - In SlideShare, you can permalink individual slides and not just the entire presentation. The slide url changes every time the slides advance. So if you want to send your friend a link to the 17th slide of your 35 slide presentation, just copy the slide URL code when you are on the 17th slide and send it over. When your friend clicks on that url, the 17th slide will open directly in his/her browser. The small unit of microcontent in a presentation is an individual slide and we worked hard to isolate it.
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Zoom to full screen view- You will find a “full” icon on the Flash player; this is for full screen slideshow. Just click this icon and the slideshow will start playing in full screen mode. Thats just the way it happens in PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress as well. Note that the full screen option is not available in the embedded players on your blog or website.
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Comments on individual slides- The comments you can make on a slideshow also are at a slide level; its almost like your slides have an individual existence of their own. Again its that microcontent idea.
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Browse slideshow using hand cursor- Whether you are watching the slideshow in the normal mode or the full screen mode or even in the embed mode, you will notice a hand cursor that appears on the left/right part of the slides. This is for forward and backward advancing (on clicking) of the slides.
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Resize the embedded slideshow on your blog- The code that you copy/paste into your blog for embedding the slideshow has values for the length & breath of the embedded player. You can modify these values to ensure that the player fits into your blog’s column width.
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Slide Transcripts- I bet most users haven’t realised this. The text from your presentation is displayed in a text format in the box marked as slide transcript. This will get indexed by Google’s spiders. And so your slides are actually on Google now and will show up in Googles’ searches (once SlideShare is opened for public viewing). Again this is at the slide level, so hopefully people will be able to use google will find the exact slide that is most relevent.
Oct 5, 11:13 am
I would like to see support for Keynote slides or PDFs.
Oct 5, 12:01 pm
this post alone describes key microcontent functionality that allows users to add unique value for their own use and via their blog to others.
I have just received your invitation to test Slideshare and I will be posting my comments via my blog as soon as I have had a chance to put S/S through its paces.
Oct 5, 4:30 pm
I hardly use PowerPoint (must presentations have been Flash, S5, other web content), so I dug out some older ones to test– the functionality is great, especially the abilty to go full screen.
Obviusly the slide builds are not there, nor are the active hyperlinks in the original.
It would be nice to have a pop menu or control to jump to an arbitrary slide (maybe I missed that), though I see I could do some manual URL location edits to fake that.
All in all pretty incredible, and hopefully YouTube is honored by the flattery.
Oct 5, 5:14 pm
Will you let us record audio for our presentations? I want to enable people to listen to my talk in multiple languages, and thus record myself multiple times, synched to slide advancing…
Thanks!
Oct 6, 6:47 am
Will start by saying I just love the interface that you have here! Its simple and un-cluttered! Hope you keep it that way!
Somethings that I think would make this service even better:
1. Support for animated slides. While animations may not be advocated universally, it can be used in many situations to improve the presentation of the content. I think it would be essential to support animations.
2. Similarly, hyperlinks
3. The ability to jump to a particular slide. An option to see something like a slide sorter view would be awesome!
4. The full screen option doesn’t seem to work!
Looking forward to using this service!!
Anand
Oct 6, 10:27 am
I’d like to chime in with the feature request to have the ability in the presentation to have a link to another slide in the presentation. I know you already know this since I’ve been pestering you
But adding my voice to the list. Having just this one feature could allow for branching presentations which would bring a whole new dimension to this application.
I know this is way to early, but I cant wait to see what kind of API you might add onto this.
Oct 6, 12:07 pm
What is the process for embedding the uploaded slideshow in a wordpress blog. Do I just have to copy and paste the slideshow code into a post? I tried that with no luck. What else do I need to do?
Oct 6, 1:09 pm
How about autholinking any URLs in the slide transcript, e.g. if there is a URL on the slide, it is an autolink in the transcript? That’s a simple regexp operation on the code side.
Oct 6, 2:00 pm
I can link the URL, and that will take me to the slide show, but I would like the slideshow player to appear directly on the blog. My html experience is almost non existent so I need something pretty simple and straingtforward.
Oct 6, 4:42 pm
On the HyperScope mail list we branched off into discussion of outliner software and I reminisced about something from the mid-80s, one of the sweetest apps I’ve ever used … Broderbund’s “Thinking Cap”. Sweet, crisp, featureful without being overloaded. Oh, did I mention it was for the C=64? *grin*
I just wanted to thank you for the invite. Looks like you’ve nailed design here … good to see people getting their arms around the new tech.
Oct 7, 5:19 pm
VERY NEAT!!!
Suggestions & Qs
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1) You point out that it’s possible to send the URL of a specific slide (say, # 17 out of 35 slides).
On my Firefox 1.5.0.7 (XP Pro), each slideshow’s URL stays the same for all 35 slides…
How do you “grab” the URL of a particular slide?
2) Add button/field to GO TO a specific slide#…
3) Some Users are specifying Tags with multiple words,
(ie: “history_of_cooking”), instead of 2 Tags: “history” and “cooking”. Bad for Search by Tags…
Add a small [?] with blurb on how to specify Tags,
right NEXT to the field where the Author enters these Tags…
4) Allow active _Hyperlinks_ in slides
5) Allow Right-clicking on a slide for an (optional) popup window w/notes, text, slide explanation…etc.
6) Include the “total number of Slides” for each Presentation, in the INDEX page (http://slideshare.net).
Oct 11, 2:16 pm
How about a simple button for automatic presentation load/play (slide show mode)? Is there a way to do that?
Oct 16, 4:23 pm
Hamid,
There is no way to do automatic presentation load/play yet, but we will take your request into consideration
Oct 18, 1:35 am
Kool features. Waiting to get invited
Aug 4, 11:11 am
This is great Amit!
Shame I did not stumble upon this great site till today.
But one thing I did right away - spot the slide transcript - even before I came here to read this blog.
Great idea and greater execution! Bravo!!!
SRINI
Jan 17, 2:28 pm
I’m really excited about finding this site I think it is really great. I do have one question and maybe it is already here and I’ve missed it but is there a way to respond to a comment regarding one of your slides? Do I just add a comment to the one posted on my site or do I go to the site of the one who posted the comment and leave my response there?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Flagranny
Jan 23, 3:03 pm
I think slideshare is a great service. The fact that you can’t make the embeddable ‘player’ full screen makes it the embed feature useless if your document has small text… Any chance of making that a feature?
Thanks!!