Ashwan Lewis's dashboard

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 29, 2008 11:44 to the question "Who is watching my slideshows?" in SlideShare:

We aren't tracking which users are viewing shows, so there isn't any way to know that. You can see which sites your slideshows have been embedded on though.

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 28, 2008 21:01 to the question "Embedded slideshow is working in Movable but not in Wordpress. Why?" in SlideShare:

Are you using a Wordpress.com blog do you have Wordpress installed on your own host?

If the former, you can use the Wordpress short code to embed a slideshow, click on "Options" below the embed code and you will see the short code for Wordpress.com

If you are using Wordpress installed on your own host, you can either install a plugin which allows you to embed slideshows using the same short code or alternatively use the following steps as a workaround:

1. Disable the visual editor from your profile
2. Edit/create a post
3. Paste the embed code from SlideShare
4. Save/publish the post
5. Re-enable the visual editor if you need to.

Remember before editing or creating a post where you want to embed a slideshow you will have to disable the visual editor. This is because the visual editor strips out the slideshow code that you are pasting in.

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 28, 2008 15:02 to the question "Extra notes appearing; can't be deleted" in SlideShare:

Your link is not accessible, have you made the slideshow private?

But this is a known issue and I have seen a few presentations that have these notes. Could you let me know which software you used to create the slideshow?

suzievesper replied on August 28, 2008 11:17 to the problem "Hyperlinks not working" in SlideShare:

Thanks for getting back to me. At least now I don't think it is something that I am doing wrong :)

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 28, 2008 10:38 to the problem "Slideshare not shown at all on IE7" in SlideShare:

Would it be possible for you take a screenshot and email it to me: ashwan [at] slideshare.com

Does SlideShare work in other browsers for you?

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 28, 2008 10:35 to the problem "Hyperlinks not working" in SlideShare:

We're working on fixing this issue. It's a known bug with our conversion process.

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 28, 2008 10:33 to the problem "Error Code 500 when using a Private URL" in SlideShare:

This bug has been fixed now. If anyone still has problems viewing secret URLs, please let me know!

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 28, 2008 10:29 to the problem "Need to Delete Slideshow from guest account right now!" in SlideShare:

Broderick, we've removed the presentation from SlideShare.

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 25, 2008 04:18 to the discussion "Getting a slide show removed immediately" in SlideShare:

We have a very simple procedure for getting content removed from SlideShare. It's documented here:
http://www.slideshare.net/terms#dmca

Basically we need a fax from you that makes a couple of specific statements. There are legal reasons why we need those specific statements, and why it needs to be a fax.

ybrands replied on August 24, 2008 12:16 to the problem "Error Code 500 when using a Private URL" in SlideShare:

I also got 505 error. I have people that ned to see the stuff today. :(((

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 22, 2008 22:58 to the problem "Slideshow can't be shown on slideshare and embedded blog" in SlideShare:

Marian, I see a slideshow on your latest post, so I assume your problem has been solved?

Ashwan Lewis replied on August 22, 2008 22:53 to the problem "Error Code 500 when using a Private URL" in SlideShare:

Can you email me the secret URL so that I can check? ashwan [at] slideshare.com

marian replied on August 20, 2008 21:04 to the problem "Slideshow can't be shown on slideshare and embedded blog" in SlideShare:

I haven't been able to embed a slideshare in my blog either. I use IE6 but have Firefox available if needed. Thanks, Marian
mariansbennett.com
twitter: @mariansbennett

Derek replied on August 19, 2008 16:01 to the problem "Time limit on slidecast audio?" in SlideShare:

Sent these to you in an email on August 7th...

David Recordon replied on August 16, 2008 23:50 to the question "How do I make a hyperlink to a specific slide number?" in SlideShare:

I just tried this with http://www.slideshare.net/daveman692/... and it didn't work for me.

daveman692 marked one of Ashwan Lewis' replies in SlideShare as useful. Ashwan Lewis replied to the question "How do I make a hyperlink to a specific slide number?".

A comment on the problem "interesting plurkers page showcases friend-spammers" in Plurk:

thank you for the response. what you're talking about sounds promising. i think it is actually pretty easy to sort out friend spammers algorithmically, just look at their ratios. if they've made fewer plurks than friends that's a tip off. 300 plurks but 1000 friends isn't normal. it is indicative of friend spamming. unless of course that's due to them being legitimately popular before coming to plurk, but you can figure that out by seeing whether the spammer initiated the 1000 "friendships" or whether the 1000 people came to them on their own accord. this might require recording additional "friended first" information, but there must be a way to algorithmically isolate the behaviour. – hobvias sudoneighm, on August 16, 2008 21:42

Myriam replied on August 16, 2008 18:52 to the problem "interesting plurkers page showcases friend-spammers" in Plurk:

Could be great that the display of mos viewed, most followed etc change according to what the user enters in the search tool. ie if you enter a search by country, that's no point to have the result for the whole site if you are looking fot the most replied (which, i'm with Kathy Jacobs would be most interesting than most befriended for instance.

Kathy Jacobs replied on August 16, 2008 18:29 to the problem "interesting plurkers page showcases friend-spammers" in Plurk:

What about setting up a sort on Plurkers with the most replies? Those people are definitely interesting (by dint of the @ of people responding to the comments). Yes, it could still be tweaked by someone who replies to posts just to get them on the list. But at least that would require effort on the part of the plurker.

Greg Fowler replied on August 16, 2008 16:01 to the problem "interesting plurkers page showcases friend-spammers" in Plurk:

Is there a reason why you have to present us with your choices of what's important? I'd like a table with separate SORTABLE data columns that includes things like nick, plurks, replies, views, friends, fans, karma, etc. Let me decide from the raw data who I determine to be interesting acc. to my own criteria. Frankly, the way you've constructed your karma algorithm, esp. the way you punish those of us at the high end if we don't plurk every 4 hours, I think you've got a corporate bias against ordinary users. I'd love for you to prove me wrong, but it'll take more than just saying so.