SlideAware closes it's doors Friday, May 02, 2008

Yesterday I received an email from online slide show service, SlideAware, advising that it is

to shift our business to focus on larger deployments of our service. In preparation for this shift, we are discontinuing our service effective May 15, 2008. Until May 15, 2008 you can continue to use the service, however we suggest you use this time to remove any materials or content you have uploaded and to identify a replacement service.

Unless you have an existing account, you can no longer access the service and the home page provides the same message.

Similar to Slideshare, you could upload powerpoint slide decks for public and private viewing via links or embed the slides in web pages. Additionally you could operate the slide show for remote meeting participants e.g. telesales meetings or conference calls.

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Slideburner - A better slideaware? Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Naturally, minutes after posting about SlideAware I stumbled across SlideBurner which has been nominated for Startup 2.0 which is a competition of European web 2.0 sites with 15 final nominees. There is an event in Madrid on May 10, where the nominees will be officially presented and 5 finalists will be selected by a jury and the crowd.



There's no installs with Slideburner and you can password protect your slides. You can also allow people to download your original presentation with the premium version. Whilst there doesn't appear to be an option to run your slides as a live remote presentation, this offering is more palatable than SlideAware was to me.

There's a 200mb storage limit on the free version.

Read/Write web has a write up on Startup 2.0 here

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Slideaware - An intrusive online slideviewer

I'm been a keen advocate of Slideshare since discovering it about 9 months ago. It's an incredibly easy way to share slide decks online and I've used it a number of times to publish presentations I've done such as Sex & the Investor, which has been viewed nearly 2,000 times.

My only gripes with it is that you can't password protect presentations to restrict who can view them, nor use it to run remote presentations, which is a great shame.

So, I was interested to see how SlideAware would measure up when I read that you could password protect your slides and run live remote presentations, all for free (premium service for $12pm).

However, the service fell at the first hurdle as far as I'm concerned - in order to upload presentations you need to install a toolbar within Powerpoint.

Now, there are several services I've happily done this for including Zoho's Office but they weren't mandatory, which meant I could try the service out first before deciding if I wanted to install a "permanent" feature inside my application.

It's a shame that a simple FTP upload facility isn't available which would have allowed you to go toe-dipping with the later option to install the toolbar once you learnt how great it was. I can't tell whether this is a technical restriction or a sales technique - they may think I will be a stickier user if I have the toolbar installed and that frivolous users will be deterred.

Guess I'll keep looking.

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Wow, I made it onto Slideshare's front page Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Heck, I rarely achieve fame, so making it onto Slideshare's front page with my Barcamp slide deck as a featured presentation came as a pleasant surprise. I suspect the viewing figures of 228 views after 2 days may have something to do with hitting the buttons of money & sex in the title.


Towards the end of the slide deck, I've included some sites I think are cool from a personal use point of view.

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