Slideboom
SlideBoom is an online service for PowerPoint presentations sharing. SlideBoom is an analog of YouTube in a way, but it is used for presentations.
History
SlideBoom platform development started in May 2007 by iSpring Solutions, Inc. that is headquartered in the USA and has offices in Russia and India. SlideBoom has been originally designed as a web application that gets easily integrated with desktop and server site solutions. Since 2008 SlideBoom has started offering advanced services mainly for business purposes. It means that earlier user stories only included pictures and slideshows, CVs and portfolios, e-cards and virtual tours, lections and courses. New business user stories may contain both free and business presentations with advertizing materials and other commercial information.
Use cases
SlideBoom is used for PowerPoint to Flash conversion. Next user scenarios at SlideBoom are presentations exploring, searching, uploading, sharing and site members communication. SlideBoom communication facilities are represented by group joining, text and graphical commenting. Each uploaded presentation May Be viewed privately or shared within blogs or social networks, emailed or displayed for a certain group. SlideBoom has a PowerPoint add-in to make uploading process more effective.
SlideBoom may be used in three different ways:
- No registration.
- Free registration – gives essential functionalities.
- PRO registration – gives additional functionalities.
Features
SlideBoom supports public and private presentation sharing, over 180 PowerPoint animations, video and audio import, grouping and graphic commenting. Graphical annotation feature allows users to draw over slides and make it viewable for all the website users. PRO subscription features enhanced facilities as Slidelog, greater upload limit, customizable players, private sharing secured with SSL, SWF downloading, private groups, offline presentation distribution and compression options. Private group at SlideBoom allows user to protect their content from unauthorized viewing and make them available for the group members only.
Presentations can be uploaded to SlideBoom from a free desktop PowerPoint add-in. The add-in allows to add audio narration and supports video.
SlideBoom supports PowerPoint 2007/2003/XP/2000 presentations (PPT, PPTX) and slideshows (PPS, PPSX).
SlideBoom has an upload limitation for free accounts: max file size 100 Mb, max presentation quantity 100 items.
Localization
SlideBoom has adopted for Russian mirror – SlideBoom.ru
See Also
- Authorstream
- Slideshare
- Slide hosting services
References
- Two online PowerPoint hosting services
- Slideshare Vs. SlideBoom
- On Line Presentation Tools: Slideshare Vs Slideboom
- Sliderocket vs Slideboom – who wins?