SlideShare Offers Mobile Version
by Keith Cowing, March 27, 2009
SlideShare just announced mobile access to its presentation-sharing website. I expect it to work particularly well on iPhones, which are featured in the presentation shown below. I haven't tried it on my BlackBerry yet because I need to install a new browser (Opera) for it to work.
Despite a few drawbacks (tiny screen, extra downloads), this is a great enhancement to an already useful platform. SlideShare is an amazingly efficient way to share information and find useful presentations. The ability to embed presentations within your site or social networking page is probably the most important part. It's unclear whether that will work on a mobile phone or not (when viewing a presentation within a third-party site and not on SlideShare's homepage). Perhaps an embedded presentation will show up as a link to a mobile-friendly version. That's unclear. But one way or another, SlideShare provides a valuable service and is making great progress. Startups might be benefitting the most from SlideShare right now. They get great, free exposure by posting pitches on the web and promoting them with services like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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