Presentation site SlideShare aims new products at businesses
SlideShare, a site for uploading and sharing presentations, unveiled a new section today called SlideShare Business. Co-founder and chief executive Rashmi Sinha says the site’s users skew more heavily towards the business world compared to your standard document-sharing website like Scribd or DocStoc, so SlideShare Business highlights products to help those businesses get more attention or sales leads, while also making SlideShare money.
SlideShare Business includes two initial products — AdShare and LeadShare. AdShare, as you… Continue Reading
Presentation sharing site SlideShare raises $3 million
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SlideShare, a company that lets you upload Powerpoint presentations to the web then share them with others, has raised $3 million from Venrock. Its site has been growing increasingly fast since it launched in 2006, chief executive Rashmi Sinhahmi tells me. It now gets 4.5 million unique visitors per month, with more than 400,000 registered users that have uploaded around 300,000 presentations to date.
The site lets you do things… Continue Reading
DivShare adds document viewer, takes on Scribd
DivShare, one of the best in the ever expanding mass of mostly undifferentiated file hosting and sharing services, has just added a flash-based document viewer to its offerings, which include photo slideshow, video, and music players.
Like that of Scribd and SlideShare, DivShare’s document viewer lets you upload Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files, embed them anywhere, and read them without having to download anything.
Standing alone, this is nothing new, but combined with its other flash… Continue Reading