This is the UK Web Focus blog, written by Brian Kelly, UKOLN. UKOLN is a national centre of expertise in digital information management, based at the University of Bath. UKOLN is funded by the JISC.
Slideshare Available From Facebook
Posted by Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) on 26 June 2007
My colleague Nitin Parmar, a Learning Technologist at the University of Bath, has just alerted me to a post on the Slideshare blog which has just announced that SlideShare is available on FaceBook!
I’ve just tried it and uploaded a few of my slides to my Facebook account. The interface is shown below.
The Slideshare blog posts admits that “While the Facebook application is not an exact replica of SlideShare, we have tried to include the core features“. It goes on to say that “We plan to gradually add more functionalities to the SlideShare-Facebook application“.
I welcome the fact that Slideshare are engaging their user community in early user testing and that they encourage users to “give us your feedback and let us know how we could enhance its appeal. ” As the open source community often say “release early and release often”.
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Steve Lawless said
Brian
great seminar this morning. What is a mashup? I claim my pint!
Steve Lawless
CEO
BH Impetus
Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) said
Hi Steve
Thanks for the comments – I’m pleased you found the seminar useful.
I think I offered a free pint if I used an unexplained acronym – and I’m afraid ‘mashup’ isn’t an acronym – but nice try :-)
As described on Wikipedia a mashup is “a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work“.