SlideShare

I do love what you guys have created. My only question is that when I embed a slideshare player into a blog or website, the embedded player does not have a full screen button. Many of the slideshows require larger views for some of them contain small texts. But when a person who sees the slideshare show on a blog wants to see it full screen, he/she has to jump over to the slideshare website and click the full screen button on the specific show. This takes too much of the viewer's time in my opinion.

If possible, could the embedded players have the full screen button as well?? or am I missing something here? like there IS a full screen button?? (which i can't seem to fund..)

I'm sure many of us are wondering about this?

Thank you!!

I have started using SlideShare to give all my talks. Why? I don't like PowerPoint as a live presentation tool. Second, I refer to lots of websites in my presentations and hate having to switch between Full Screen and web browser. I always loose my place in the presentation and then have to start from the beginning. SlideShare handles this much more elegantly.

There are a few tricks to using SlideShare for a live presentation.
-Sometimes the images don't render very well (especially for a live presentation). You can make the rendering much better by saving as pdf (and unchecking option for compressing while exporting to pdf).
-Second, SlideShare can sometimes be slow and its annoying waiting for the screen to load up in front of an audience. Easy solution is to cache the whole presentation beforehand. I go through the whole presentation in full screen mode - so during the live talk, it goes all smoothly.
-Going back and forth with the web. This is the part I like the most. When you are in full screen mode, you can press "Esc" at any time. I already have the websites open that I want to show. When I am done with it, I put SlideShare into full screen mode again. It starts at the right point.

The best part is since everyone in the audience has seen me using SlideShare, they know where to go to get the slides. Ever since I started doing this, I get a lot more traffic to my slides and a many more talk invitations!

Anyone else using SlideShare for live presentations?

It would be nice to have a page archiving the past "Slideshow of the Day"s.
It would be another helpful method for finding quality content (or at least content deemed "of the day", for whatever reason...)

Hi SlideShare-team,

currently, the only way I get retrieve the embed-url for a slideshow, is via hitting http://www.slideshare.net/api/1/get_s... with an api_key.

What would be really neat, was to just use stuff from the url of the slideshow instead of the api_key for the retrieval argument. By nature, the url (e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/HaVai/amazi...) must be unique.

E.g.: gimmeEmbedCodePlx.php?postingUser=HaVai&videoUrlString=amazing-photos-140897

Can you do this? Thank you in advance for your great tool :)

What about a diaporama feature with a simple transition every x seconds ?

;)

Great application!

I want a portable file format of the merged powerpoint file and mp3 audio. I want to download this file to an IPOD (podcast) or computer or DVD (say a series of slidecasts to be published on a iso) and view it sound and all (automatic slides). I want to be able to serve my own streaming file/flash (sharecast) w/mp3 on my own server or buy Highly Available speedy service for said file. I don't want competing interests just my content and my mp3 and my website advertised. I don't mind a little link back to slideshare to let others know if the service is free. I just don't want to confuse my subscribers with competing ideas or ads.

thanks.