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,SlideShare. MyPlick,. Slideboom,Slideboom. SlideServe,SlideServe SlideWorldSlideWorld and SlidePub.SlidePub

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)

SlideShare MyPlick SlideBoom SlideServe authorSTREAM SlidePubpublish 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 100 100 100 100 1000 100 Prevent download watermarking

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