Todd over at SlideSix recently cooked up a couple nice additions for this slide-sharing service, to make it a more useful offering in this age of mashups and interconnected media. First and foremost, he’s added a robust API to allow third-party integration, so enterprising developers can build upon the SlideSix foundation. And it’s now possible to search for and embed YouTube and Vimeo videos as slides into an existing SlideSix presentation.
In the SlideSix announcement post, Todd gives a good example of how easy it is to search for and embed videos, which I’ve included below. Will this kill Powerpoint? Hardly; but SlideSix and similar services make it less and less important to invest in desktop software.
We met Todd late last year, and were impressed with the quality of his work. He’s essentially a one-man shop kicking ass on his product. Todd’s Twitter stream is full of his passion as he shares his successes and frustrations. Good on yer, Todd!
How is this different from Slideshare?
From http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/slideshare-now-lets-you-fuse-youtube-into-your-presentations/ : “SlideShare will now allow users to embed YouTube videos into their Flash-based presentations – an oft-requested feature that has countless potential uses.”
lulz, agreed, but its always good to have the competition, that way everyone wins
John: The devil is in the details. I like to think what differentiates SlideSix is the fact that we implement features true to our core vision of keeping this simple to use yet empowering to our users. In this case we offer the ability to search for your videos directly within our ‘one-stop-shop’ management console. You enter a search term and we go check YouTube and Vimeo for matching videos. There is no need to leave our site, go to a third-party site, grab a URL, come back and paste it in. Simple, powerful, effective user experience.
The ability to embed external media, when combined with presenter recorded narration (via our management console), is a complete win for our users.
Great job Todd – looks very cool.
SlideSix, welcome to an already crowded space with too many wanna-morph-YouTube-model-whether-it-works-or-not startups. Question: Where is the business model?
Todd (@cfsilence) you are the official super-hero of SaS hobbyists world-wide. Way to turn passion, dedication, and innovation into a product worthy of praise and coverage on the official whos-who of the biznology world (TechCrunch).
yes very good work.
are you a “alone poor haker cow boy” ?
so – I registered but the site doesn’t seem to be sending verification emails so I can’t use my account – oh well – back to slideshare….
@lauricella — I see you’re account is now verified so i assume you received your verification email?
Sorry for theinconvenience, high traffic caused a very brief outage earlier but things are up and running now.
Please let me know if there’s anything else you need.
Well, it should be noted here that Vimeo is for personal, noncommercial use only. So please bear that in mind when using this feature.
I thought of an interesting use for this for Real Estate. The big thing in RE is the use of virtual tours. Using this you could add some photos of the outside of the house adding annotations or other information and data to the slides then move into a nice video presentation. After that put in more data about the house such as a spec sheet and finish with some neighborhood statistics. Since you can provide a link this would work for almost any MLS in the country. You can also embed this anywhere making it easy to put on your website.
How is that for monetization?
I thought of an interesting use for this for Real Estate. The big thing in RE is virtual tours. With this you could add a few photos of the outside of the house and put annotations or other data on the slides. Then toss in some video of the house for the actual tour. After that put a spec sheet to provide additional data for the house. Follow that with some neighborhood information. You could narrate or not throughout.
How is that for monetization?
If someone could delete one of my comments. I got an error and it did not seem to register the first comment so I wrote another and did not mean to spam. Thanks