Slideshare – The Youtube of powerpoint!

The other day I called up an old friend of mine Vishnu to inform him about my the change in mobile number. Vishnu was the technology lead of TNGicube for a long term and was instrumental in developing Tina- India’s first Virtual girlfriend service using Artificial Intelligence which was conceptualised by me. Later Vishnu left TNgicube to launch his own startup, Torque – whch is today one of the leading startups in Thiruvanathapuram. Currently Vishnu is working in a startup Uzanto based in delhi whose Indian operations is headed by webyantra fame Amit Rajan. 

While exchanging the latest developments hapning around our companies, Vishnu was really excited about the launch of Slideshare.net which is a online  presentation sharing   service and had sent me an invite for the same.

Well before going into the details of the service, the first the thing which attracted me was the neat and cool web2.0 design layout of slideshare.net and here’s no exaggeration, its the best design I had seen in any web2.0 sites.

Now what is slideshare? It’s a cool slidesharing service on the we that allows you to upload your presenation slides and share it friends or put it on your blog like a youtube or a flickr doing it for videos or photos Without having to send huge presentations as email attachments. So what are you waiting for, log on to http://www.slideshare.net (well you have to register for an Invite), upload your slides and start sharing it with your collegues, friends, customers or partners.

 Well there is also some interestng facts regarding the slideshare server cluster, which has been revealed by Amit Rajan on his blog.  The servers are all named after bollywood actresses.  At the bottom of the screen on each SlideShare page, you can see the name of the web server that is responding to your request.

Ash is a Pentium 4 machine with 2 Gigs of RAM, and is used as a web server. She won Miss World in 1994, and is often referred to as the “Queen of Bollywood”.

Celina is a Celeron machine with 2 Gigs of RAM that also is our second web server. She was born in Kabul but raised in Calcutta, and was crowned Miss India in 2001.

Bipasha is another Celeron with 2 Gigs of RAM, responsible for all file conversions and processing. She is considered one of Bollywood’s most controvertial actresses.

Dia is a Xeon with 4 Gigs of RAM and RAID 1. She runs the database, and most recently starred in the Indian adaptation of the film “Fight Club”.

The only disadvantage I find in the site is that there is no private  sharing facility available, which means you can’t make your slides private but as per the FAQ it seems the uzanto team is working on it, Anyway guys do check out the site and please let Amit ( http://www.amitranjan.com) know your feedback.