SlideShare comes to the Desktop with a new Office PowerPoint 2007 add-in SlideShare ribbon for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 enables users to share and discover presentations with the world’s largest online presentation sharing community SAN FRANCISCO – December 16, 2008 – SlideShare today announced the availability of a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 add-in that creates a SlideShare Ribbon tab within the Office PowerPoint 2007 User Interface. Once installed, the unique 2007 Microsoft Office System ribbon user interface within Office PowerPoint 2007 lets users access many of SlideShare’s presentation sharing services. The add-in can be downloaded for free from the SlideShare website (http://www.slideshare.net/developers/apps/pptribbon). Once installed, SlideShare users can access their SlideShare presentations, discover community presentations and view community usage metrics for their presentations, all from within Office PowerPoint 2007. "The SlideShare Ribbon simultaneously brings cloud-based social sharing into Office PowerPoint 2007, and SlideShare to the desktop. If you're making a presentation, you can search SlideShare, download Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations for inspiration, and re-upload your finished work, all without ever opening a browser. Smart presenters will find these new desktop features make them more productive and help them leverage the power of community to hone their message and expand their audiences,” said Rashmi Sinha, SlideShare’s CEO. The SlideShare ribbon marks a new way of thinking about how desktop applications can work with cloud-based services, and how cloud-based services can leverage desktop software better. This hybrid approach provides a unique user experience enabling the social web to seamlesslessly integrate into a familiar and broadly adopted software application. Before the availability of this add-in, SlideShare enabled Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations to be shared on the web; with this new feature, sharing can occur from the desktop itself. “Expanding the reach of Office PowerPoint 2007 to create a seamless experience into SlideShare’s presentation sharing community bridges the power of the best client software and the reach of the web’s most effective sites to empower users,” said Jamin Spitzer, director of platform strategy at Microsoft. “By taking a software plus services approach, SlideShare gives users the flexibility of choice to develop and share presentations both on the desktop and in the cloud, delivering unique business advantages for sharing presentations across a broad set of communities.”
About Slideshare, Inc. SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. SlideShare gives users such as professionals, academics and authors the ability to publish and share presentations over the Web, on their blogs, websites, LinkedIN profile or on slideshare.net. Founded in 2006, the company is privately held and based in San Francisco, California and New Delhi, India. For more information visit www.slideshare.net.