Congratulations to Rashmi Sinha and her partner-in-crime, Jonathan Boutelle, for the beta release of SlideShare. SlideShare allows you to publish your slides in You Tube-like fashion. It can read PowerPoint and OpenOffice (sorry Mac users, no Keynote yet). (LA5)
Here are my long-promised-but-never-published slides from WikiSym 2006 this past August and the Internet Identity Workshop last May: (LA6)
- “The Augmented Wiki” (August 22, 2006) (LA7)
- “User-Centric Identity” (May 1, 2006) (LA8)
I’ve got a love-hate relationship with slides, and I try to avoid them when possible, but as Ross Mayfield noted, sometimes they’re useful. And when they are, SlideShare is a fantastic way to share them. I will most certainly be using this service. (LA9)
This is a beta, and I suspect we’ll see Flickr-like Social Networking capabilities eventually. My only gripe: There should be Permalinks for each slide, not just for the entire deck. (LAA)
I’ve got a few more invitations left, so if you’d like to play, drop me a line. (LAB)