Slide hosting service explained

A slide hosting service is a website that allows users to upload, view, comment, and share slideshows created with presentation programs. According to Alexa and Compete rankings, the most popular slide hosting services include websites such as SlideShare,[1] MyPlick,[2] Slideboom,[3] SlideServe,[4] SlideWorld[5] and SlidePub.[6]

Main range of application

Slide hosting services became very popular in such fields as eLearning and web conferencing. Many electronic courses contain videos, audios, animations, which is easy to accomplish within a PowerPoint presentation. After uploading a presentation to a slide hosting service, a user receives an HTML code, which allows embedding it to a website or blog, or sharing it with a friend afterwards. Slide hosting services’ users can join groups by interests and debate about any subject they are interested in. These portals are also used in advertising purposes.

Technical concepts

Slide hosting services convert uploaded files into the Flash format. It allows viewing video clips online while downloading them and reducing the original file size. SlidePub, SlideShare and authorSTREAM services uses HTML5 format.

Popular slide hosting services (features)

SlideShareMyPlickSlideBoomSlideServeauthorSTREAMSlidePub
publish
public
private
download
ppt
email
social networks
embed
HTML5 format
support
supported files
ppt
pdf
pptx
keynote
audio hosting
commentation
text
graphical annotations
audio
video
member
personal messages
favorites presentations
contacts
player
full screen
play/pause
next step
previous step
thumbnails
transitions
animations
narrations
sounds
music integration
videos
audio synchronization
presentation details
title
description
tags
category
language
presentation statistic
views
embeds
favorites
comments
business analytics
graphic dashboard
other
PRO account
friend feed
groups
private groups
events
presentation transcript
ppt to youtube
youtube videos to ppt
oneclick desktop ppt publish
max file size 100 1001001001000100
Prevent download
watermarking

References

  1. http://www.slideshare.net/ SlideShare
  2. http://www.myplick.com MyPlick
  3. http://www.slideboom.com/ Slideboom
  4. http://www.slideserve.com/ SlideServe
  5. http://www.slideworld.com/ SlideWorld
  6. https://slidepub.com/ SlidePub