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

For some time, we have observed that many of you use SlideShare for your business, from a one-person consulting shop to small company to large corporation. Our site surveys confirm this, most of you use SlideShare for your business, in one way or the other.

Today, we are launching a new section of the site : SlideShare Business for all of you who SlideShare for your business.

Thousands of presentations are uploaded to SlideShare everyday. But some catch your eye from the moment they get uploaded. Tha’s the case with the winning presentation for this year. I saw Dan Roam’s Healthcare napkins shared on Twitter, the day it was uploaded, and watched as it spread virally. No surprise that it won the contest (full results here).

The second prize was won by Sheltering Wings by Sarah Cullem,

, the story of an orphanage in the small West African country of Burkina Faso. I confess, I had not even heard of this country before this presentation.

The third prize was won by Feels Bad on the Back by Mohamad Faried who volunteers at an Indonesian kidney foundation.

One special announcement this year: the Web 2.0 Expo New York has invited the winner of the World’s Best Presentation contest to speak at their upcoming conference. We are thrilled to announce this partnership and hope this helps bring the value of great presentations to a business audience.

This year’s contest was sponsored by Adobe Acrobat 9. We want to thank them for their support. The contest also included a prize for best Acrobat 9 presentation. This prize was won by Avalok’s Creative Acrobatics from Avalok Sastri. The runner up for Acrobat presentations is Success Consulting Portfolio.

We also had several category prizes for Technology, Business, Creative/Offbeat, Education and About Me. The five category prizes were won by

24 Reasons why Twitter Sucks! in Technology,

Eco-nomics, The hidden costs of consumption in Business in Business,

Simplicity in Creative/Offbeat

A crime so monstrous in Education

Who is this guy in About Me.

Thanks for everyone who participated. We wish we could send you all prizes. You made visiting SlideShare fun and interesting. We will be back next year!

Update: ReadWriteWeb just posted an article about the contest results here.

The first contest we ever hosted, the first World’s Best Presentation Contest 2007 was an important landmark for SlideShare.  We discovered gems like Shift Happens and Meet Henry. The second year (2008), we built on that further and quadrupled the number of entries and votes. This year, for World’s Best Presentation Contest 2009, our focus is on presentations as social media objects that get shared online and passed around.

We have asked judges who are experts on presentations & social media to join us in finding the best presentation for 2009. Guy Kawasaki (gkawasaki on SlideShare) has written a lot about presentations and needs no introduction to this community. David Armano, author of Logic & Emotion blog (darmano on SlideShare) is one of the most popular people on SlideShare - his visual communication style is brilliant. Finally, Padmasree Warrior CTO of Cisco (padmasree on SlideShare) has taken communication by a company to a whole another level. Through her talks, tweets and presentations, she has helped us all think about collaboration.

So please enter your presentations into this year’s contest. Give us the best you can create. First prize is MacBook Pro, second is Amazon Kindle while third prize is iPhone 3G. Go here to learn more and full list of prizes.

As in previous years, everyone on SlideShare can vote. But we have something new this year. To choose the finalists, we will go beyond votes and look at tweets and shares on social networks. So, ask your friends / contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to check out your entry and vote / tweet / share it. This will add a whole new dimension to this year’s contest. The hashtag for the contest is #bestpreso.

Another new this year - if you use the SlideShare app on our partners services - LinkedIN, Facebook & XING, you can get votes from your friends & colleagues on those networks. If your SlideShare.net account is synched with our LinkedIn, Facebook & XING apps, your SlideShare contest entries will show up there with a strong call for viewers on those networks to vote.

We want to thank our sponsors Adobe Acrobat for helping us bring this contest to you. They recently released Acrobat 9 which also helps you create rich presentations and portfolios. They are also sponsoring a special prize (HP TouchSmart laptop) for the best presentation / portfolio created with Acrobat 9. Judges for this category are social media experts: Julie Hansen, COO of Business Insider, Scott Belsky, founder & CEO of Behance, Harry McCracken editor of Technologizer. For the duration of the contest, you can upload A9 presentations directly to SlideShare. Go here to learn more about the A9 prize.

Best of luck with your entries. The entire SlideShare team is waiting to see your work.

Important Update: Some users have expressed confusion on not being able to “upload a SlideShare presentation to a Facebook page”. Just to clarify, it’s not possible to directly upload to a Facebook page. To show your presentations on a page, you need to first add the SlideShare app to a regular Facebook user account and add your Facebook page to this account. After this you need to assign yourself as the administrator/owner of this page. Once this is done, presentations from your SlideShare app will show on your Facebook page and remain in sync.

One of our most requested features on the newly launched Facebook App was the ability to add it to Facebook Pages. We are glad to announce that it is now possible to do just that. Just follow the steps below:

1. Make sure you add the SlideShare app to your profile first. Then, goto the SlideShare application’s profile page and click on “more” to display more options. Choose “Add to my Page”

2. A popup will show you a list of pages you currently own or administer. Choose the page you want to add SlideShare to. For this example, we’ll choose “Rockstars Cafe”

3. Goto your Facebook page and click on “Edit Page” as shown.

4. Under the list of Applications available on the page, you’ll see “SlideShare”. Click on the small pen icon next to it and choose “Edit”

5. You’ll be taken to the Pages settings section, which allows you to specify the SlideShare user who’s presentations will sync to the presentations showing on the Page. If you did not install the SlideShare app as mentioned in (1), you’ll be prompted to do so. If an administrator is already set for this page, you’ll be given the option to change the account. Non-administrators will not be allowed to access this section.

6. Once this is done, return to your Page and you’ll see the SlideShare app under the Boxes tab on your page. You can move it to your Wall tab if you want.

Your Facebook Page will stay in sync with the chosen page administrator’s account. Do share your Facebook page URL’s with us after adding the SlideShare app.

This is one of our most requested features for SlideCasting.

We are happy to announce that you can now host your slidecasting mp3 audio files on slideshare. You can also continue to host them on an external host (e.g. archive.org) as before. The choice is entirely yours.

Here’s a quick tutorial for how this will work.

For SlideCasting, there is

- No limits to audio file size that you can upload to SlideShare (or host externally).
- No bandwidth consumption limits.
- No limits to the nos of slidecasts you can create in your SlideShare account.
- No music uploads, this is for talks, podcasts, panels and discussions. If you want to synchronize with music, please host it yourself.
- Please upload audio files for which you have copyright. If we get any complaints about copyright, we will respond immediately. (Please read our terms of service):

Hope the community likes this feature. Let us know your feedback in the comments

For presentations lovers everywhere, we have one more contest for you! This time its about storytelling. We are partnering with Fuze Meeting (who have an awesome online meeting product) to bring you this contest.

A lot of you have already been posting stories to SlideShare. This is an opportunity to get that story inside you onto slides. Tell your story in words and pictures. Add audio or video if you want. Just keep it within 30 slides. Your story could be about anything you care about. Yes, we mean anything. Your travels, a story of a friendship. Or the story of your brand or your product. Make us care, make us think.

And what’s the prize for storytelling. The Grand Prize is $5000! Yes, that’s correct. Imagine what you could do with $5000. We have four other prizes for Best Design, Best StoryTelling Ability, Most Popular and Best Use Of Multimedia. Everyone gets to vote for their favorite entries. Judges will choose the winners from the top voted.

Like before we have assembled a star cast of judges: Tony Hseih, Om Malik, Don Tapscott, Pete Cashmore, and Ann Handley.

Rules are similar to previous contests. You have 3 weeks to enter your presentation to the contest (May 26th to June 15th). Voting will go on till June 22nd. And results will be declared on June 29th.

Thanks to Fuze Meeting who we worked with to dream up this contest and who kindly sponsored the prizes! It has been fun working with Brook and Patrick . Go check out Fuze Meeting.

As usual, we have a presentation about the contest (below). Please help us get the word out. Embed the presentation, share it with your friends. Help us reach every corner of the world where people create presentations.

We’re happy to announce the relaunch of the SlideShare app on Facebook. We have completely rebuilt it, integrated the latest Facebook changes and made it more useful.

To add SlideShare to your Facebook profile, go here.

You can create an account on the SlideShare Facebook app and link it to your regular SlideShare.net account. How does that help? Well, once you do that, any presentations (or documents) you upload on SlideShare will instantly be available on Facebook or if you upload them on Facebook, they’ll be available on SlideShare.

It doesn’t end there, of course. If you’ve added the SlideShare app for LinkedIn and linked your SlideShare account there, your presentations will automatically be visible on LinkedIn too!

In fact we strongly recommend you link both your LinkedIn & Facebook accounts to your SlideShare.net account. Once this happens, you have a HOLY TRIAD in place. Upload to any one- SlideShare, Facebook or LinkedIn and it will shows up instantly on all three. Isn’t that really cool?

Using the new Facebook app is a real breeze! We’ve tried to keep the interface consistent across SlideShare, LinkedIn and Facebook, so if you’ve used our app before, it should be really easy to get started with it on Facebook.

With the SlideShare app on Facebook, you can

• Upload your presentations and documents to SlideShare
• Share them instantly with your friends by publishing to your home page
• Comment on or favorite presentations by your friends
• Add a SlideShare box to your profile to display your presentations

If you already had added the app to Facebook, you don’t need to do anything, unless you want to link it to your SlideShare account.

Take a look at some of the screenshots below to see what you can do:

We’ll be adding more features to the app over the next few weeks, so we’ll be glad to hear any feedback from you or if you find any bugs.

To add SlideShare to your Facebook profile, go here.