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

Update: We’ve cracked this problem! Upload should work on the site even with Flash 10. Uploading through LinkedIn will still have trouble if you have Flash 10, but we’re working on fixing that soon too.

As many of you have let us know, there is a problem with the upload button. Some of you have reported that you click on it and nothing happens. This is an issue with Flash 10. Adobe recently released Flash 10, and many of you have upgraded. The SlideShare upload button depends on Flash 10 and we are working to support Flash 10.

In the meantime, you can

-Downgrade to Flash 9 (Adobe has earlier version of Flash here)

-Use Single upload instead of Bulk Upload

Apologies regarding this inconvenience. We hope to have this fixed by tomorrow morning. In the meantime, thank you for your patience.

Just wanted to drop a quick note that the voting for the World’s Best Presentation Contest got over on the 14th of August as scheduled. This has been a gorgeous contest - 2561 entries with 22744 votes cast. We’ve had contestants from over 120 countries spread across 5 continents. And to think that the contest is going on while the Olympics are being held in China - it couldn’t have been better.

You’ll need to wait a few days more to know who the winners are. The entries are being examined, the votes are being counted and the judges have gotten together into their huddle… Lets see what their decision is going to be. Stay Tuned….

Any guesses who the winners are going to be - First, Second & Third prizes???? any takers ?

Have you ever thought it would be fun to create a slideshow collaboratively with a group of people? Well, now’s your chance. This slideshow is being created by the community, one slide at a time! The first slide was created by Ethos3, the second slide is from Presentation Partners, and third one is from Rick Altman. The collaborative slideshow is embedded below.

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Start working on your slides, because from the sixth day, its open to anyone. Just make a slide about community (that would fit into the slideshow). Upload and tag it as “day6″.

This collaborative slideshow is part of the Presentation tennis (a new community activity on SlideShare). Learn more about Presentation Tennis here.

We have rolled out a new API call which retrieves metadata for any slideshow on Slideshare. By passing the slideshow ID or the Slideshare URL, the API call can return slideshow details such as

- The slideshow ID, Title, Description, Embed Code, doc (passed to player), Total number of slides

- Slideshow Language, Complete URL of the slideshow, User ID of Slideshow owner, Login of slideshow owner

- Comma separated list of Related slideshow id’s, URL of the slideshow’s thumbnail and the slideshow’s tags.

For complete details and documentation, visit the Developers Documentation page

We are hopeful that this new call will make it easier for developers to write better applications using the Slideshare API. We would love to hear your feedback about this new API call and suggestions about any new addition you would like to see on the API front.

While creating SlideCasts, we recommend the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) to host your mp3 audio files.

Here’s why - It’s free, gives you unrestricted bandwidth, supports Creative Commons licenses and readily gives a slidecasting friendly mp3 URL. Lots of users have been using the archives for uploading their audio file, so we decided to create a quick tutorial for how to upload an audio file and get a public mp3 URL for it. Check it out below:

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Slideshare had its first team retreat recently; we boarded a bus that took us from New Delhi to Jaipur (which is possibly India’s best tourist destination after Agra, the city of the Taj). It was two days of fun & frolic. Check out the snaps below…

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Want to join the team that is building SlideShare? We are recruiting ROR hackers & geeks to join our New Delhi based team.

Working at SlideShare can be a hugely rewarding experience. Building social software is a whole lot of fun: the technical challenges, the high-involvement nature of the work (how often can you show your friends & family what you did at work last week?), the fast changing internet landscape, and the constant feedback from users, make it a different ball-game than the usual technical work.

Benefits include:

- Experience with cutting edge open-source technology
- Working with a team of bright, enthusiastic people where you can focus on creating great technology that is used by millions of people every day
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Stock options

We are recruiting for the following positions:

Server side hackers

If you’re a open source junkie, and love hacking Linux systems, deep algorithmic work (search, recommendation engines, etc), SQL tuning and optimization, and modifying open-source code to your own twisted purposes, then you might be a good fit for a position with our server side team. Experience in scalability of large webapplications is an advantage.

Front End Developers

We’re looking for web-savvy hackers who know JavaScript and Flash and PHP, and can use them to full effect in creating amazing web applications. Prior experience in application development in a internet firm may be an advantage.

Technologies/Platforms

We work on ruby on rails, linux, freebasd, debian, Amazon S3, MySql etc. Candidates not having experience in ROR can apply- if you have worked earlier on PHP, Python, Perl etc, thats fine as well.

Send resumes to ‘amit AT slideshare DOT net’