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SlideShare Add-In Launches, Now Integrates with PowerPoint

sarahintampa — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:57:00 GMT

SlideShare, the popular site for sharing your PowerPoint presentations on the social web, has just launched a new feature: the "SlideShare Ribbon,” a new add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint. With this add-in installed, you can share your PowerPoint presentation from within Microsoft Office – with no need to navigate to the SlideShare web site to do so. But the add-in offers much more than just a simple upload tool – from the SlideShare toolbar you can also manage all your SlideShare uploads from PowerPoint, search through presentations on SlideShare, browse your contacts and groups’ presentations and also download them into PowerPoint. In other words, SlideShare makes PowerPoint social.

SlideShare’s ribbon is a great example of how Software plus Services (S+S) can work. It shows how the web can enhance your current software, without having to move an entire application to the web to do so. Instead, the web becomes a component of the software. With the new SlideShare ribbon for example, accessing the social network built around PowerPoint files is now something that can be seamlessly integrated into the desktop app for a true S+S experience.

The SlideShare Ribbon (.exe) works with PowerPoint 2007, Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. You can see a video of it in action here.

Word and Excel Docs Can Now Be Added To Slideshare

sarahintampa — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:31:00 GMT

Slideshare is a popular website that made sharing PowerPoint presentations (and PDFs) easy. Recently, the site added a new feature: support for Microsoft Word and Excel files. The move was likely due to Slideshare’s competition from sites like Scribd, DocStoc, Zoho Share, and others. If you’re wondering what the difference is between all these sites and the services they offer, I have to point you over to the Digital Inspiration site, where the news broke. There, blogger Amit Agarwal has put together handy charts for your reference which compare the features, file size limits, viewer sizes, among other things. He even compares the traffic of the sites – a comparison which shows Slideshare has a lot of catching up to do if they want to compete with Scribd!

Making Engaging Digital Presentations With Freepath

sarahintampa — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:42:00 GMT

Freepath 2.0 is a new application that lets you create presentations that are mashups of web content and content from your PC. So, instead of a traditional PowerPoint, for example, your Freepath presentation could combine a PowerPoint file with images, videos, music, PDFs, Word, and Excel documents and play them as a seamless digital presentation. You can integrate web content like YouTube videos, slideshow’s from slide.com, music from Pandora, images from flickr or photobucket, and more alongside files saved on your PC like those from Office documents, PDFs, Quicktime videos, or Flash files.

The Freepath 2.0 software offers three different viewing modes: a preview mode which shows you digital assets on the right but also makes the playlist and playlist library accessible, a full screen mode (like what PowerPoint offers), and a dual screen mode which shows the presentation both on your screen and that of an external monitor. This dual monitor mode is also compatible with WebEx, GoToMeeting, Live Meeting, and Intercall.

If you’re more comfortable creating presentations in PowerPoint and are hesitant to try a new tool like this, you can actually prepare your slides in PowerPoint itself and then drag them into FreePath’s downloadable software to take advantage of the other tools that it provides.

When complete, your presentations can be shared with the Freepath community on myFreepath.com, which is similar to how Slideshare operates. All beta users receive 100 MB of free storage space in this community.