Sunday 11:45 PM PST: We are doing some important scheduled maintenance on our servers. The site is likely to be down for about an hour. Please bear with this.

Monday 00:45 AM PST: Server maintenance done and over. All systems back to normal … let us know if you are facing some problems.

Saturday 12:00 PM IST:

Its a cold wintery morning here and the Delhi HadoopHackday has just kicked off at the SlideShare office. This is a hacking festival and the participants include SlideShare engineers, interns doing projects with us, engineering students from Delhi’s engineering colleges, developers from other Delhi based software companies & startups. All teams get 24 hours to build something using distributed computing technologies like hadoop, mapreduce et al. And we have 10 teams participating.

Head to the wiki for more details.

Check out this awesome video. This is SlideShare in 3D!

This comes from NUS (National University of Singapore) and they are an active user of slideshare.

Update : Along with account types, we have also introduced an “Industry/Cause” indicator in your profile information. You can specify which industry you are working in. For the new account types, this is a compulsory field. For the default/normal type, this is optional.

Ever wondered this? Who are you on SlideShare?

Well till recently, we gave everyone the same kind of account (i.e. the default/normal account). So if you were a teacher, a university, a company or a lone user, you had to use the same account type (and have to specify your gender & DOB as well!) Not any more. We have released 7 new types of accounts. This was preceded by an exhaustive research exercise to understand our community. And the research indicated that these seven types of accounts (along with the default/standard one that has always existed) should cover the main sub-sections of SlideShare users.

Account types are free, off course. If you want to change your account type, just log into your SlideShare account, change your account types, fill out the options and you are all set to show the world WHO YOU ARE.

Why are we doing this? SlideShare has grown into a vibrant community and (behind the scenes) we are building custom features for different accounts. As and when these features are launched, we want you to best positioned to leverage on them.

Check out this quick slide deck for a walkthrough.

Here are the seven new account types for your quick reference:

Company: The Company account type is meant for professional organisations & firms.

Non Profit/Gov: The Non Profit/Gov account type is meant for non profit institutions, non government organisations, central or provincial governments (or government departments) etc.

University/School: The University/School account type is meant for educational organisations – schools, universities, colleges, classrooms, educational institutions.

AD/PR/Marketing Agency: The AD / PR / Marketing Agency account type is meant for firms dealing in advertising, public relations, marketing etc.

Professional Speaker: The Professional Speaker account type is meant for people who speak frequently at conferences, seminars, events etc.

Presentation Design Firm: The Presentation Design Firm account type is meant for professional firms dealing in presentation design services, trainings etc

Event Organiser: The Event Organiser account type is meant for professional firms that organise events, conferences, trade shows etc.

Let us know what you thought of this new release.

SlideShare is recruiting software developers for its New Delhi (India) & San Francisco (USA) office.

Working at SlideShare can be a hugely rewarding experience. Building social software is a whole lot of fun. The fast changing web landscape, the constant feedback from users, the technical challenges when millions of people use the site every month. Most of all, you can actually show your friends and family the stuff you work on. All this make being a part of the SlideShare team a different ball-game than the usual technical work.

Benefits include:
- Experience with cutting edge open-source technology
- Working with a team of hackers & geeks, in a “No-BS” environment where you can focus on building great technology that is used by millions of people everyday
- Opportunity to play a decisive role in building a global website
- Competitive Salary + Stock options

We are currently recruiting for the following engineering positions:

Web Application Developer / Frontend Developers
Location: San Francisco & New Delhi
Profile: We’re looking for web-savvy hackers who know JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, Flash and at least one server-side scripting language, and can use them to full effect in crafting amazing web applications. We use Ruby as a programming language. Experience with Ruby is a plus, but not a necessity; PHP, Python experience is fine as well.
Desired Background: Degree in Computer Science, 2-5 yrs exp in similar role in tech / internet company
Type: Full Time position

Backend Software Engineer
Location: San Francisco & New Delhi
Profile: If you LOVE writing code and are comfortable hacking on Linux systems, doing deep algorithmic work (e.g., search, semantic analysis, recommedation), SQL tuning and optimization, data mining, hacking media & document formats/APIs to create new mashups, generally modifying open-source code to your own twisted purposes, then you might be a good fit for a back-end position.
Desired Background: Degree in Computer Science, 2-5 yrs exp in similar role in tech / internet company
Type: Full Time position

If you are interested, apply using the application form on this page or send your resume to jobs AT slideshare DOT com

Here’s a quick peek into what goes on behind the scenes at SlideShare

We are launching Social AutoShare. This is a feature that allows users to automatically publish their SlideShare activity – commenting, favoriting, uploading and following to Twitter & Facebook.

Check out this quick tutorial. The process is really easy. It will not take more than a few minutes to link your accounts together. And you can disconnect at will.

Note: This feature in in beta. And we have heard from some users about problems in linking with Twitter. We’re working on this.

With LeadShare, some users have expressed curiosity about how the lead generation forms works on documents embedded on blogs. Here are examples to help you with this. Three cases are possible:

Case 1: Lead Generation form after the 1st page in the document; form is COMPULSORY for further viewing (users cannot skip it) : Use scroll bar or forward/back buttons to view this.

Case 2: Lead Generation form after the 1st page in the document; form is NOT COMPULSORY for further viewing (users can skip it) : Use scroll bar or forward/back buttons to view this.

Case 3: Lead Generation form after the last page in the document : Use scroll bar or forward/back buttons to view this.

With LeadShare, some users have expressed curiosity about how the lead generation forms works on blog embeds. Here are examples to help you with this. Three cases are possible:

Case 1: Lead Generation form after the 3rd slide in the presentation; form is COMPULSORY for further viewing (users cannot skip it) : Use forward/back buttons to view this.

Case 2: Lead Generation form after the 3rd slide in the presentation; form is NOT COMPULSORY for further viewing (users can skip it) : Use forward/back buttons to view this.

Case 3: Lead Generation form after the last slide in the presentation : Use forward/back buttons to view this.