Chromebook users have gotten a few more native Android apps to play with: Google has officially brought six additional Android apps to…
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Pinterest adds support for Slideshare, Etsy, Kickstarter, Soundcloud
Image-sharing site Pinterest will now automatically attribute content pinned from 500px, Kickstarter, SlideShare and SoundCloud.…
Read MoreLinkedIn pays $119M for SlideShare’s professional content
Professional social network LinkedIn is looking to bolster its appeal with its core business audience by buying presentation hosting service SlideShare in a deal worth $118.75 million. The acquisition gives LinkedIn another way to connect its users, who are often communicating through presentations and content.…
Read MoreWhat to do when Amazon’s spot prices spike
Rapid price spikes are effecting buyers on the Amazon Spot Market, where users are bidding extremely high prices for scarce compute capacity. These price spikes are new, and they call into question assumptions that many users have made about how the auctioning of computing resources works.…
Read MoreSlideShare ditches Flash, rebuilds entire site in HTML5
SlideShare has had a major makeover. The company has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language. Starting Tuesday, SlideShare.com now runs on HTML5 on both desktop and mobile devices. But making the big switch was not easy.…
Read MoreTokBox Brings Group Video Chat to WordPress Blogs
WordPress bloggers can now embed video chats right into their sites, thanks to a new plug-in from Bay Area-based video chat specialist TokBox. The plug-in is geared towards media sites, making it possible to host talkshows and one-on-one interviews in front of a larger audience.…
Read MorePortable Presentation Power With MightyMeeting
Ever get that "a-ha!" moment when seeing a new app in action? That's how I felt seeing a demo of MightyMeeting. The app allows users to store presentations in the cloud and then share them in online meetings and discussions from the web, iPad or iPhone.…
Read MoreSlideShare Wants to Make Web-Based Meetings Easier With Zipcast
SlideShare, the web-based service that allows you to upload a PowerPoint presentation and share it with others, today launched a new feature: a free, web-based meeting service called Zipcast that runs in any modern web browser without requiring a download.…
Read MoreHybrid Computing: Using the Right Tool for the Job
Some of the most creative uses of cloud computing use a hybrid of cloud servers and conventional servers to provide the best of both worlds. But there are disadvantages to such an approach, so here's how engineering organizations have designed hybrid architectures to counter issues.…
Read MoreLessons from SlideShare: Cloud Computing Fiascos & How to Avoid Them
My company, SlideShare, has been using cloud computing for almost everything we do. But if comic-books have taught us anything at all, it's that with great power comes great responsibility -- and we’ve made our share of blunders. Here are a couple of the more notable ones.…
Read MorePresentation Sharing Site SlideShare Adds A Paid Option
SlideShare, the popular presentation sharing site backed by Mark Cuban, among other big names, has launched a paid version, providing it wit……
Read MoreHow Cloud Computing Impacts the Cash Needs of Startups
Cloud computing has been a key enabling factor in the latest generation of web startups, letting them start with small amounts of capital and scale quickly in response to demand. From a startup's perspective, cloud is more of a pricing innovation more than a technological innovation.…
Read MoreSlideShare Grows Up, Launches Pro Accounts For Business Users
SlideShare, which allows users to upload and share PowerPoint and other presentations and slideshows, today launched a series of premium Pro accounts that have added features for businesses, including the ability to generate leads from within a presentation and to create a customized branded channel.…
Read MoreFor SlideShare, First Steady Growth, Then a Business Model
About three years ago, Rashmi Sinha and her husband Jonathan Boutelle, along with Amit Ranjan, started a company that was going to…
Read MoreVid-Biz: White House, DTV, Boxee
White House Flip-Flops on YouTube Privacy Exemption; Obama’s administration had exempted the video-sharing site from federal rules relating to cookies and privacy,…
Read MoreSlideshare Integrates YouTube
Around a month ago, we wrote about the integration of Slideshare within Microsoft’s Office, notably Powerpoint. Rashmi Sinha, the CEO of Slideshare,…
Read MoreSlideShare Brings The Cloud to Desktop MS PowerPoint
For many years users had to be satisfied with using either a computer screen or data projector to display Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.…
Read MoreSharing presentations is fun
My favorite post of the day comes from Mathew Ingram, who gives a really fun spin on the news that SlideShare raised…
Read MoreSlideShare Gets $3 Million For Presentation Docs Hosting
Powerpoint presentation sharer SlideShare has raised a $3 million first-round investment. David Siminoff, a partner with lead investor Venro……
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