Slide hosting service

Website for hosting and showing slideshows

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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,[1] MyPlick,[2] Slideboom,[3] SlideServe,[4] SlideWorld[5] and SlidePub.[6]

## Main range of application

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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

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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)

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| SlideShare  | MyPlick  | SlideBoom  | SlideServe  | authorSTREAM  | SlidePub

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publish
public  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
private  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
download
ppt  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
email  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
social networks  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
embed  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
HTML5 format
support  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes
supported files
ppt  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
pdf  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes
pptx  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
keynote  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
audio hosting  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
commentation
text  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
graphical annotations  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
audio  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
video  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
member
personal messages  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes
favorites presentations  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
contacts  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
player
full screen  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
play/pause  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
next step  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
previous step  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
thumbnails  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
transitions  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes
animations  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
narrations  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
sounds  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
music integration  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
videos  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
audio synchronization  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
presentation details
title  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
description  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
tags  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
category  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
language  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
presentation statistic
views  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
embeds  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
favorites  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
comments  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes
business analytics  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
graphic dashboard  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes
other
PRO account  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
friend feed  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
groups  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
private groups  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
events  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
presentation transcript  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
ppt to youtube  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
youtube videos to ppt  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
oneclick desktop ppt publish  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
max file size  | 100  | 100  | 100  | 100  | 1000  | 100
Prevent download  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
watermarking  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No

## References

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1. ^ SlideShare.
2. ^ MyPlick[usurped].
3. ^ Slideboom.
4. ^ SlideServe
5. ^ SlideWorld
6. ^ SlidePub