Slideshare

Just found an interesting website called Slideshare. The idea is simple--share your slides like you share your video (like YouPorn etal).

You can embed slideshows just like embedding video. For example, here's a slide presentation on the scalability issues with Twitter

(Protip: Check slide 17. Also, MEMCACHE.)

A real simple idea, yet very useful. I'll definitely be using this in the future.

There's only one problem with it, which is that the code they supply to embed the player doesn't work for me. Flash players can be embedded by using an EMBED tag or an OBJECT tag. Embedded objects don't load correctly on my work machine and laptop. Not sure what the issue is. But if you want to switch from object to embed, use this template:

<embed name="movie" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="[MOVIE URL]" width="450" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>

All you have to do is pull the movie URL out of the object tag and place it in the marked attribute. You can, of course, change the size of the player if you want. Small text in the slides is pretty hard to view, so you might want to bump it up as wide as your site's formatting allows. Alternatively, you can click on the "on SlideShare" logo to go to the SlideShare website where you can view it full screen. Coolness.

Programming Post by: McGurk at 05:47 PM | 2  Replies | Reply
Kick this post:

Aha, now I see why you called in "sick" today and you are not answering your phone, cracker ass cracka.  You have You Porn plus your work machine does not let you blarg to the best of your ability.  BUSTED.

You are probably out on the lake with a case of beer laughing your ass off at us suckers that actually showed up for work.

Anyway, I hope you get to "feeling" better,

1 Posted by NotMcGurk on May 23, 2007 02:36 PM (Ri74D)

I wish I was on the water somewhere.  I'm sitting on your couch in my house with every major joint aching like I stepped through a time vortex 50 years into the future.  Luckily, I'm not squirting anymore.  Or at least I don't have anything left to squirt. 

 

2 Posted by McGurk on May 23, 2007 06:27 PM (ajbe7)

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