Business Week writes about Slideshare
Dec 12, 06:43 am PST
We are tickled pink that Business Week wrote about Slideshare. Recognition from mainstream media! Whoo-hoo! We love blog/ web coverage, but there is something special about seeing the words “Slideshare” in glossy print. I am going to go out and buy a copy of Business Week right now (its in the December 18th issue). The article is behind a login, but we thought you would want to know what they wrote.
Have I Got A PowerPoint For You (Business Week, Dec 18th)
In the beginning, there was MP3 sharing. Then came friend sharing (MySpace), photo sharing (Flickr), and video sharing (YouTube). Now it has come to this: PowerPoint slide sharing.
SlideShare.net offers a place to upload, view, and search for PowerPoint presentations. And since opening up its beta site in October, it has received tens of thousands of files.
The site’s “decks,” as the slide shows are called, are diverse: conference presentations, classroom lessons (”Let’s Learn Colors!” from a middle-school Spanish class), and PowerPoint satire (Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address famously summarized in bullet points, created in 2000 by Peter Norvig, Google’s research director).
Site co-founder Jonathan Boutelle came up with the service while organizing a conference. It will hardly grab as many eyeballs as YouTube, but corporate firewalls won’t block the likes of “Let’s Learn Colors.”
By Jena McGregor (Business Week)
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Dec 21, 11:44 pm
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Would this be an accurate count of the Slideshare.net USA traffic?
Dec 22, 3:15 am
No, that is completely and totally WRONG. Alexa is better but we think its an underestimation as well. The overall trend on Alexa seems to make sense - though we are not able to correlate the ups and downs on Alexa much with what we see internally.