I love this.  Presentation Tennis is a social experiment by SlideShare/Ethos 3 in “collaborative creativity”.  Users upload slides and create a single combined presentation on a given topic.

This kind of thing could never realistically be done pre-Internet.  It’s fun to see the creativity in the models, because for a lot of the internet-using population, the Internet is an extension of traditional ways of doing things (”Clicks and mortar”, anyone?).

Fellow tweep Connie Crosby contributed slide 11 to the presentation.  I encourage you to check it out!

I’ve neglected to put up the slides from my recent Seattle Tech Startups presentation. Find them over at SlideShare.net.

Title of presentation “Get Faster While You’re Getting Better”. The presentation is about how to integrate Agile concepts into your startup software development process.

Check this out:

I just have to LOL at this one.  I mean, come on.  Like I’m going to CLICK on that link?  Even if my mad tech skills tell me that it was legitimately sent from Slideshare, and not from the back of some internet café in Lagos or Baku?

Check this out:

I just have to LOL at this one.  I mean, come on.  Like I’m going to CLICK on that link?  Even if my mad tech skills tell me that it was legitimately sent from Slideshare, and not from the back of some internet café in Lagos or Baku?

I’ve been investigating SlideShare, the online presentation-sharing website. It has some neat new features, including the ability to do a “private share” with a select group of contacts. For businesses this is a real plus.

However, I’m seeing some problems with photos embedded in my PowerPoint presentation. High-quality 300 DPI JPEGs are showing up very grainy and pixelated, almost as if the conversion routine that SlideShare uses isn’t properly converting the image files, or downconverting them, or something. Photo-quality images on my desktop are almost unusable online, even (especially?) at Full Screen resolution.

A SlideShare rep writes on their forums:

I also tried uploading as ppt, the image quality is much worse. I think our conversion algorithms are doing something not quite right there and I will our engineers to look into it. In the meantime, pdf is your friend.

In other words, don’t use PowerPoint files on SlideShare; convert your presentation to PDF first.