Comparison Between Scribd, Authorstream and Slideshare : Comparison Between Scribd, Authorstream and Slideshare
authorSTREAM.com : authorSTREAM.com Platform for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the Internet.
Makes it easier to share your PowerPoint slideshows through blogs, websites, on YouTube and even via iPOD.
Upload PowerPoint presentations up to 1 GB in size.
Present synchronously in real-time online to a global audience using Present Live.
Offers free conversion of PowerPoint files of duration up to 5 minutes in MP4 video format. Converts PowerPoint files in FLV, AVI, WMV or MP4 video formats using your video credits at authorSTREAM. Also Offer server-to-server porting of video files to YouTube, converted from PowerPoint presentations
Offers exclusive slide sharing features in Premium membership.
Reorganize presentations in your own Channels and share with the world.
Features of Authorstream.com : Features of Authorstream.com Insert YouTube videos and images using authorSTREAM Desktop.
Delivers the previously missing key benefit of “as-is” online presentation sharing to the PowerPoint user community, as it keeps PowerPoint presentations intact after being posted online—just the way they were created.
Supports embedded and linked audio/video, PowerPoint animations, gif animations, and narrations within a PowerPoint presentation.
Presentations can also be uploaded to authorSTREAM from authorPOINT Lite, a free desktop application or authorPOINT which lets you create presentations with live audio or video from various devices such as a webcam, DV or mini DV camera, or any other USB or fire wire based device. Add live video narration or a video file to your PPT and present without being physically present using authorPOINT.
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Introduction to Scribd.com : Introduction to Scribd.com Document-sharing website which allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format.
Scribd’s vision is to liberate the written word — to turn everyone into a publisher and create the best possible reading experience on the web and mobile platforms.
Anyone can easily upload and immediately share their original work on Scribd.com or any other website.
Quick Facts : Quick Facts More than 60 million readers every month
Millions of documents shared
More than 35 billion words
More than 5 million iPaper embeds
90 different languages
Launched: March 2007
Headquarters: San Francisco
Management:
Trip Adler, CEO & Co-Founder
Jared Friedman, CTO & Co-Founder
Tikhon Bernstam, COO & Co-Founder
George Consagra, President
Mike McGuiness, Vice President, Business Development
Features : Features Embeddable PDF player-Scribd documents can easily b embedded in other web pages such as your blog.
High quality conversions
Audio downloads-text to speech converter and play button below “download as” lets u download the audio version as an mp3.
Traffic analytics-A popular feature. People spend hours playing with it.
Text statistics
Print (fu)-If u order a printed copy of some one’s work, the author gets emailed a dollar!
Favourites-This link at the bottom of every document lets u save a document in your favourite so u can come back n find it later.
Bulk uploads-upload bunch of files at once.
Groups-publish n discuss in smaller groups with people you know or have similar interests.
Slideshare.com : Slideshare.com World's largest community for sharing presentations.
Supported formats: ppt, pps, odp, pdf, keynote, doc, odt
Display portfolio, slide resume, work samples, conference talks etc on your LinkedIn public profile.
Users can tag presentation, and download or embed them into their own websites or blogs.
SlideShare lets its users to join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share similar interests.
SlideShare also has a facebook application for uploading documents.
Features : Features Filter slideshows by language - Now you can browse slideshows by language.
Zing It! - Like it? So Zing It! Zinging is our way of letting you vote for a slideshow that you like.
Contacts - With this release, we are taking one step further to support the community at Slideshare. You can now add users in Slideshare as your contacts.
Favorite notification - Now, you get an email notification when someone favorites your slideshow. You can choose not to receive emails by editing your profile.
Share presentations with your LinkedIn network
Embed YouTube videos inside your presentation
References : References http://www.scribd.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slideshare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorstream
http://www.authorstream.com/SignIn/Dashboard
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