Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Google and SlideShare

Here's a post with two interesting dimensions to it: the content and the medium.
First, the medium. In an earlier post we looked at the Goolge Presentation Widget . Well now there's a site that has out-Googled Google. Not only do they have a better presentation widget, they have figured out how to build a community around presentations.

Take a look at the SlideShare website. There are presentations on every topics with ratings and comments. It looks just like YouTube. The presentations can also include audio and provide high quality full-screen views. Shows can easily be embedded in websites or blogs - like this one:

All about Google
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google business)

Which brings us to the second dimension here - the content of the presentation itself. It explains network effects, two sided markets as well as the Google page rank algorithm. There's a lot to be learned from Google's success.

Read more about SlideShare on CrunchBase

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