Yet Another Personalized Service: SlideShare Weekly Digest

[Owen Densmore]

I just started getting slideshare's weekly digest.  Weird!  Apparently they've reached a critical mass of presentations, and use preferences targeting to gather up what you'd like, kinda like Amazon does for "products you might also like" on checkout.

Well, what the heck, over coffee I looked at the list and thought the Amazon slide set (speak of the devil) might be interesting and it turned out to be pretty good.

This reminds me a bit of arXiv for papers but now with some sort of business model:

- Get folks to upload presentations to a popular site (like YouTube)

- Use the user's profile and previously viewed presentations to link you to the paper

- Augment with a weekly with a small number (not overwhelming) of suggestions

- The papers you look at now have one more viewer, thus more "citations"

- And you may then start putting your papers there too.

- This can be monetized by collaborating with research outfits

.. and so on.

it also creates yet another cloud category: papers/presentations that go along with music, photos, videos, jobs (linkedin), etc .. and I bet a lot of us have enough of these that the cloud storage would be an OK backup too.

Tom: IIRC, you use them?  I suspect that may be how I got started there.

   -- Owen

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From: SlideShare <[hidden email]>
Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:30 AM
Subject: Your SlideShare Weekly Digest

 

 

Hello Owen,

 

Here is your digest of the most popular presentations on SlideShare this week. Check it out, and share your own.

 

The Motley Fool , 142 Followers, 17 SlideShares Alexandria, United States

7 Top Stocks for 2013

 

For the article, click here: http://mot.ly/11PVbvY. We asked seven of our top analysts from our Real...

3 days ago, 224803 views, 2 favorites, 0 comments

 

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Davide 'Folletto' Casali , 383 Followers, 22 SlideShares Head of Design at Dachis Group

Social Experience Design @ Interaction 13

 

This is the in-depth presentation I did at Interaction 13 in Toronto. It gives first an approach gro...

12 days ago, 115790 views, 224 favorites, 12 comments

 

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faberNovel , 1259 Followers, 22 SlideShares

Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire - Update 2013

 

Our "most favorited" 2011 study revealing Amazon.com's strategies for dominating online retail has b...

641 days ago, 516293 views, 1762 favorites, 112 comments

 

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Om Malik , 505 Followers, 5 SlideShares at GigaOM

Evolution of a founder

 

Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding - possibly all within the space of...

6 days ago, 104885 views, 72 favorites, 23 comments

 

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Evolution of a founder

 

Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding - possibly all within the space of...

6 days ago, 104885 views, 72 favorites, 23 comments

 

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[Owen Densmore]

Wow, I just noticed an additional stunt on their site: your "saved files" page which keeps a reference to each of the slide sets you've downloaded.  Probably they also include sets you've "read" on their site.  Next they'll have a kindle app or some such.

I bet I'm the last one on the list to have seen this!  So much stuff out there!

   -- Owen

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

I just started getting slideshare's weekly digest.  Weird!  Apparently they've reached a critical mass of presentations, and use preferences targeting to gather up what you'd like, kinda like Amazon does for "products you might also like" on checkout.

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[Russell Standish]

What is the point of this site? Death by PowerPoint?

I read a presentation if there is absolutely no other form of the
information, and I'm desparate for it, but give me an HTML page
(optimised for web reading) or a PDF white paper in preference. Heck,
even those dreadful Youtube video clips are preferable to trying to
divine meaning from a Powerpoint presentation.

Cheers

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:16:08AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Wow, I just noticed an additional stunt on their site: your "saved files"
> page which keeps a reference to each of the slide sets you've downloaded.
>  Probably they also include sets you've "read" on their site.  Next they'll
> have a kindle app or some such.
>
> I bet I'm the last one on the list to have seen this!  So much stuff out
> there!
>
>    -- Owen
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > I just started getting slideshare's weekly digest.  Weird!  Apparently
> > they've reached a critical mass of presentations, and use preferences
> > targeting to gather up what you'd like, kinda like Amazon does for
> > "products you might also like" on checkout.
> >
> > <snip>
> >

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[Tom Johnson]

Good PPTs will often (should?) have URLs embedded that can take you to additional resources and sometimes audios of the presentation.  Yeah, I agree, it would be better to have the audio and video in the same package, and there are, increasingly, programs that let one do that, but so far they are not cheap.

-tom johnson

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Russell Standish <[hidden email]> wrote:

What is the point of this site? Death by PowerPoint?

I read a presentation if there is absolutely no other form of the
information, and I'm desparate for it, but give me an HTML page
(optimised for web reading) or a PDF white paper in preference. Heck,
even those dreadful Youtube video clips are preferable to trying to
divine meaning from a Powerpoint presentation.

Cheers

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:16:08AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Wow, I just noticed an additional stunt on their site: your "saved files"
> page which keeps a reference to each of the slide sets you've downloaded.
>  Probably they also include sets you've "read" on their site.  Next they'll
> have a kindle app or some such.
>
> I bet I'm the last one on the list to have seen this!  So much stuff out
> there!
>
>    -- Owen
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > I just started getting slideshare's weekly digest.  Weird!  Apparently
> > they've reached a critical mass of presentations, and use preferences
> > targeting to gather up what you'd like, kinda like Amazon does for
> > "products you might also like" on checkout.
> >
> > <snip>
> >

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[Russell Standish]

I can see the point of a site hosting video presentations (or audio,
if video is unavailable), and having the PPT, or PDF of the
presentation material. Even better, if the PPT or PDF were
synchronised with the recorded audio/video, although in practice that
is hard to achieve. At least you can click along as appropriate, and
get a better resolution than straighr forward video.

Yet, that is still not what this site is about. Also, note that video
is still way down on my list of priorities. When I want to learn about
something, I have maybe 5 minutes to spend. If I open up a 45 minute
seminar presentation, I'll usually shut it down straight away, unless
it is some very entertaining speaker, and I feel like goofing off (I
did watch Ray Kurzweil's Google seminar recently, for instance).

If its a 5 minute YouTube clip, I usually find that it can only cover one
essential idea anyway, of the sort that can be explained in 30-60 seconds of
reading an HTML page. Usually, I don't watch these either, for the
same reason :(.

Cheers

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:52:39PM -0700, Tom Johnson wrote:

> Good PPTs will often (should?) have URLs embedded that can take you to
> additional resources and sometimes audios of the presentation.  Yeah, I
> agree, it would be better to have the audio and video in the same package,
> and there are, increasingly, programs that let one do that, but so far they
> are not cheap.
>
> -tom johnson
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Russell Standish <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
> > What is the point of this site? Death by PowerPoint?
> >
> > I read a presentation if there is absolutely no other form of the
> > information, and I'm desparate for it, but give me an HTML page
> > (optimised for web reading) or a PDF white paper in preference. Heck,
> > even those dreadful Youtube video clips are preferable to trying to
> > divine meaning from a Powerpoint presentation.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:16:08AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:
> > > Wow, I just noticed an additional stunt on their site: your "saved files"
> > > page which keeps a reference to each of the slide sets you've downloaded.
> > >  Probably they also include sets you've "read" on their site.  Next
> > they'll
> > > have a kindle app or some such.
> > >
> > > I bet I'm the last one on the list to have seen this!  So much stuff out
> > > there!
> > >
> > >    -- Owen
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just started getting slideshare's weekly digest.  Weird!  Apparently
> > > > they've reached a critical mass of presentations, and use preferences
> > > > targeting to gather up what you'd like, kinda like Amazon does for
> > > > "products you might also like" on checkout.
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
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[Arlo Barnes]

Here is an interesting use of a slide-show-like format (nothing I would not rather have in a lecture, but):

Conformal Models of Hyperbolic Geometry (1)

(via ogre's gallery, via User:Tamfang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, via File:H2checkers iii.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, via Henry Segerman's YouTube Channel, via Clockwork Quartet. Memex ahoy!)

No proprietary formats from Microsoft or Adobe/Macromedia, just HTML & CSS [Edit: looks like it is something from W3C: HTML Slidy (1)].

-Arlo James Barnes

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[Owen Densmore]

Apropos of Text Power .. and Death by Power Point ..

Has anyone a favorite HTML/CSS based slide package?  Slidy and S5 are two of years past.  Any others out there?

   -- Owen

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Arlo Barnes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Here is an interesting use of a slide-show-like format (nothing I would not rather have in a lecture, but):

Conformal Models of Hyperbolic Geometry (1)

(via ogre's gallery, via User:Tamfang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, via File:H2checkers iii.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, via Henry Segerman's YouTube Channel, via Clockwork Quartet. Memex ahoy!)

No proprietary formats from Microsoft or Adobe/Macromedia, just HTML & CSS [Edit: looks like it is something from W3C: HTML Slidy (1)].

-Arlo James Barnes

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