Ever since we introduced the new player to display presentations (and documents) that were in portrait mode (taller than they were wide) people have asked us to enable that for embeds on WordPress.com.

We’ve been working with the folks at Automattic over the last couple of weeks to ensure the new player works there too. So now you can just copy the WordPress.com shortcode from a presentation page and paste it into your post. Once you save and publish, that will automatically (see what I did there?) be replaced by the correct player displaying your presentation or document from SlideShare.

Geeky stuff for plugin authors: The only change we’ve made is adding an extra “&type=d” to the end of the shortcode. When you see this, you should use the new ssplayerd.swf instead of the regular presentation player.

The live video calling service Tokbox, added support for sharing and viewing SlideShare presentations last week.

This is an awesome feature in a really cool service and we’re excited about this novel way of sharing and discussing presentations.
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Ever heard of Chris Anderson’s long tail? Someone did the analysis and found that SlideShare presentations have a long tail. What this means in a nutshell is that “there is little chance to be a blockbuster on Slideshare, but that you can quite easily attract a significant audience.” Go here for the original post

I found a few people this weekend asking about using SlideShare with PBwiki, and since this isn’t the first time it has come up, I thought making a blog post with some screenshots would be helpful. Any suggestions, hints, tips, etc are definitely welcome. You can comment at the end of this post and I’ll make a second, third or fourth post as needed. (Though if I end up making a bunch of posts about this, hopefully it is because of new features from SlideShare or PBwiki, and not my inability to explain this on the first try).
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We love what Web 2.0 Expo is doing all around the world, and here’s the latest from their Europe conference all in one go!

| Get your Presentation Pack

Making a presentation pack is quick and easy. After you’re logged in, go to our “Widget” page on the top navigation. Then choose your slideshows, a layout and title. You’re free to embed away!

Do you have multiple presentations on SlideShare? Do you want to showcase them on your own site. Maybe you would like a whole page devoted to presentations showing a sorted list of recent talks. Christian has something for you.

You can see an example of it on Christian’s presentations page. You can get the plugin by going here.

This is another usage of the SlideShare API. We are excited about how much usage the API is seeing nowadays. If you are interested in building tools with the SlideShare API, learn more here, or join the API Google group:

Thanks Christian!

We’ve had queries from some users regarding turning off related slideshows at the end of your embedded presentations. While our developers are working on an automated feature, we do have a quick temporary fix for the moment.

All you’ve got to do is locate the following lines in your embed code and add &rel=0 at the end of the URL; this needs to be done at two places in the embed code.

<param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare. net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=somr-the-social-media&rel=0" />

and

<embed src="http://static.slideshare. net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=somr-the-social-media&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355">

The rest of the code remains the same. Please let us know in case you face problems with this.

Many SlideShare users are also WordPress users. In fact, SlideShare widgets are embedded into Wordpress more than into any other social network. I am constantly amazed by the enthusiasm of the Wordpress community. Joost de Valk has made it even more easy to embed SlideShare widgets into Wordpress.org. He noticed that we offer a special embed code for Wordpress.com users. His new plugin allows Wordpress.org users to use that same embed code. Just install this plugin and then you can use the Wordpress.com embed code to embed a SlideShare widget.