LinkedIn SlideShare is a hosting service for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, PDF, or OpenDocument formats. Content can then be viewed on the site itself, on a handheld device or embedded on another site. Launched on October 4, 2006, this website is considered to be similar to YouTube, but to slideshows. It was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. The website was originally intended to be used for businesses to share slides among employees more easily, but has also been expanded to host a large number of slides uploaded just for entertaining. Although the main website is a slide hosting service, it also supports documents, PDFs, videos, and webinars. SlideShare also gives users the ability to rate, comment, and share uploaded content.
The website gets about 80 million unique visitors every month, and has about 38 million registered users. SlideShare's biggest competitors include Zoho.com, Scribd.com, Issuu and edocr. Some of the popular SlideShare users include the White House, NASA, the World Economic Forum, the State of Utah, O'Reilly Media, Hewlett Packard and IBM.
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History
SlideShare was officially launched on October 4, 2006. Rashmi Sinha, CEO and co-founder of SlideShare are responsible for the partnership and product strategy. He was named the Top 10 Influencer Women on Web 2.0 by FastCompany. Jonathan Boutelle is a CTO from SlideShare and comes up with the initial idea behind the website. He wrote the first version of this site.
On May 3, 2012, SlideShare announced that it would be acquired by LinkedIn. It was reported that the deal was $ 118.75 million.
In December 2013, SlideShare changed its site offering more visual rounds on the homepage, including larger images.
In October 2017, SlideShare removed the possibility of "Reupload" (against community protests).
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Zipcast
In February 2011, SlideShare added a feature called Zipcast. Zipcast is a social web conference system that allows presenters to broadcast audio/video feeds while driving presentations over the Internet. Zipcast also allows users to communicate during presentations via the available chat function.
Zipcast does not currently support screen sharing with presenters, features available in competing paid services like WebEx and GoToMeeting. In addition, presenters using Zipcast can not control the flow of presentations that allow viewers to navigate back and forth through the slides themselves.
References
External links
- Official website
- SlideShare in CrunchBase
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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