We have some good news to share! SlideShare was named one of the top learning tools for 2008. Its 14th in the list, above Flickr, YouTube, Twitter. I love all those sites, but have to admit, it makes me happy to see that people in the learning community find SlideShare so useful.

1. del.icio.us
2. Firefox
3. Google Reader
4. Skype
5. Google Search
6. Wordpress
7. PowerPoint
8. Gmail
9. Audacity, Blogger
11. Google Docs
12. Wikipedia
13. Moodle
14. Slideshare
15. flickr, iGoogle
17. Ning, Twitter, YouTube

This list was put together by The Center for Learning and Performance Technologies after a survey of learning professionals. You can find the complete list here here.

Just for the record, last year we were nominated in the 26th position; so that’s a sure improvement. Next year, lets hope to break into the top 10!

We have just released a Slideshare API wrapper in C#.NET to make it easier for Microsoft .NET developers to build mashups using the Slideshare API. This also contains a sample code to illustrate the usage of the API library.

We are planning to release similar API wrappers for other languages like Ruby, VB.NET, Python etc. A PHP library is already available for download.

You can also use Slideshare’s content-rich RSS feed to make cool applications. Some sample mashups built by the community have been showcased at http://www.slideshare.net/developers and www.slidesharetoys.com.

To see your application listed on these pages, make a really cool app (using the API/RSS) and send us the URL.

To stay up-to-date with the latest on this front, join the Slideshare-Developers Google group!

One of our users (username- pollyalida) has created a terrific slidecast about slidecasting and how it is distinct and more user-friendly than screencasting. Polly appears to be a consultant/trainer for libraries and schools and this is her blog.

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Thanks Polly for this super tutorial… this is probably better than the one we ourselves created …