Websense kills it with the "Personal Storage and Backup" category, meaning that the unemployed, the hipster, and the non-Fortune1000 company employees can access it. Good business model.
Blame your IT department. Websense has a very wide array of categories they filter based on and it's up to your IT guys to select the appropriate filter categories. Maybe your IT guys felt that storing information outside of the company's servers was a risk they were not willing to entertain.
Yep, it falls into the category of "X but on the internet" in this case: Powerpoint. Which was already on the internet. Provided by the single biggest website. For free.
Thankfully here is slashdot to hawk a book that hawks a no-name service to provide what we don't need, and really don't want.
There's a reason "news for nerds stuff that matters" is no longer the slogan. Dice.com is just hawking front page stories to the highest bidder in an attempt to make any of their money back.
Did you read the review?
The book is about being a better public speaker, better collaborationwhat’s wrong with that?
Due to the review I went to the Altimeter Group web site, which he referenced in the review. I found 2 reports that are free. Same report from Gartner would be $2,500 each.
They use Slideshareso it has to be good.
Go fuck yourself. Slideshare won't help you be a better public speaker, that is thinly veiled at best. A ton of other more popular technologies accomplish the same goal. Choke on some web 2.0 slashvertisement cock.
Look, it only needs to work on 1% of the slashdot userbase for it to be an effective advertisement. Seeing as steve here appears to be a regular user, he is, in fact, the sucker.
No one is truly saying Slideshare alone is gonna help u b a better public speaker. But speaker training and using the underlying power of SlideshareWILL!
slideshows (and videos) are useless timewasters, slowly dribbleing out vastly diluted information shackled to the clock.
if your stuff is worth a shit, I'll jack that right into my cerebral cortex
The book is worth it just for the sage advice in the quote at the beginning of chapter 3 where Nancy Duarte, author of slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations states about presentations, that "they didn't come to your presentation to see you. They came to find out what you can do for them."
Hey... you know, I never even thought about that. That's totally worth spending $29.95 for that once in a lifetime, insider's advice that heretofore was the tightly guarded secret of only top pros in the field.
Let's rescue this from the jaws of advertisers. I propose a multi-part critique of the first five "words" OP selected. I'll lead off:
- "SlideShareis" seems like a strange name for a product
- "free web" seems redundant
- "web 2.0"...brb...back...had to vomit. Someone else take over!
Let's rescue this from the jaws of advertisers. I propose a multi-part critique of the first five "words" OP selected. I'll lead off:
- "SlideShareis" seems like a strange name for a product
- "free web" seems redundant
- "web 2.0"...brb...back...had to vomit. Someone else take over!
The response to all of these is the same: "So I take it you're not a successful businessman, eh? Haha, just kidding... (he's not really kidding...)...so what's this inter...net...thing?"
Seems like it would be a short book. Step 1: Make a PowerPoint presentation. Step 2: Fricken' upload it to a site designed to accept PowerPoint presentations.
Why did this make SlashDot (once a home of IT gurus and programmers) again?
Seems like it would be a short book. Step 1: Make a PowerPoint presentation. Step 2: Fricken' upload it to a site designed to accept PowerPoint presentations.
But this is a free web 2.0 based slide hosting service! That's gotta be worth way more than the ability to disassemble translate the XML in a frickin' PowerPoint into HTML, doesn't it?
Free: We monetize clicks on it.
Web 2.0: We track who uploads and who reads it, click by click, slide by slide, so instead of just some HTML with a bunch of IMG tags,
To be the most boring technology ever. It was kind of cool when it first came out, like desktop publishing, but over time it has become old. The thing I dread is for teachers to stand up with multicolored text and read. Keynote was and is still interesting, but only because of the rich animation it allows. It is easy to illustrate how things are related. Prezi is an interesting option for online presentations, in that encourages extremely concise and relation messages.
Amazon hired a RPO (recruiting firm) to find software developers. These people basically troll linkedin for anyone with bingo-card skills within a certain radius of their next event. They don't look at the linkedin profiles of the people they find (because linkedin tells you if your profile has been viewed), and don't know who you are. You have to send them a resume, and then go (at your own expense) to their prequalification event, and only then can you ask Amazon for a job. So why bother having an online
> YOU SHALL NOT: > [...] > sell, lease, share, transfer, or sublicense the SlideShare APIs or access or access codes thereto or derive income from the use or provision of the SlideShare APIs, whether for direct commercial or monetary gain or otherwise, without SlideShare's prior, express, written permission; or
Blocked, like everything else (Score:4, Funny)
Websense kills it with the "Personal Storage and Backup" category, meaning that the unemployed, the hipster, and the non-Fortune1000 company employees can access it. Good business model.
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Blame your IT department. Websense has a very wide array of categories they filter based on and it's up to your IT guys to select the appropriate filter categories. Maybe your IT guys felt that storing information outside of the company's servers was a risk they were not willing to entertain.
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No, just sites for you f-ing ultra liberal jerk off wankers on Slash Idiot. F-off with the politics on every damn thing.
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slashdot the advertisement company (Score:0)
sigh
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Yep, it falls into the category of "X but on the internet" in this case: Powerpoint. Which was already on the internet. Provided by the single biggest website. For free.
Thankfully here is slashdot to hawk a book that hawks a no-name service to provide what we don't need, and really don't want.
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There's a reason "news for nerds stuff that matters" is no longer the slogan. Dice.com is just hawking front page stories to the highest bidder in an attempt to make any of their money back.
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...might want to work on that rammingwordstogether thing there, slugger... people might listen more.
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Why do you think its an advertisement?
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Go fuck yourself. Slideshare won't help you be a better public speaker, that is thinly veiled at best. A ton of other more popular technologies accomplish the same goal. Choke on some web 2.0 slashvertisement cock.
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Look, it only needs to work on 1% of the slashdot userbase for it to be an effective advertisement. Seeing as steve here appears to be a regular user, he is, in fact, the sucker.
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No one is truly saying Slideshare alone is gonna help u b a better public speaker.
But speaker training and using the underlying power of SlideshareWILL!
DESLIDE, BEEOTCHES (Score:2)
if your stuff is worth a shit, I'll jack that right into my cerebral cortex
http://deslide.clusterfake.net/ [clusterfake.net]
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The book is worth it just for the sage advice in the quote at the beginning of chapter 3 where Nancy Duarte, author of slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations states about presentations, that "they didn't come to your presentation to see you. They came to find out what you can do for them."
Hey... you know, I never even thought about that. That's totally worth spending $29.95 for that once in a lifetime, insider's advice that heretofore was the tightly guarded secret of only top pros in the field.
Thanks Nancy Duarte! That was totally worth it!
Thanks Ben Rothke! That was totally worth it!
Thanks Dice Holdings! That was totally worth it!
Thanks Samzen... OK, sorry pal.
Ugh... (Score:5, Informative)
"SlideShareis a free web 2.0
Stopped reading there. Looks like a Slashvertisement for something worthless.
ACs thread to the rescue (Score:1)
- "SlideShareis" seems like a strange name for a product
- "free web" seems redundant
- "web 2.0"...brb...back...had to vomit. Someone else take over!
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Let's rescue this from the jaws of advertisers. I propose a multi-part critique of the first five "words" OP selected. I'll lead off:
- "SlideShareis" seems like a strange name for a product
- "free web" seems redundant
- "web 2.0"...brb...back...had to vomit. Someone else take over!
The response to all of these is the same: "So I take it you're not a successful businessman, eh? Haha, just kidding... (he's not really kidding...) ...so what's this inter...net...thing?"
Er...make a PowerPoint and upload it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Seems like it would be a short book. Step 1: Make a PowerPoint presentation. Step 2: Fricken' upload it to a site designed to accept PowerPoint presentations.
Why did this make SlashDot (once a home of IT gurus and programmers) again?
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When samzenpus gets offered a blowjob, everything is news for nerds.
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Even when it's from his crackwhore momma!
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But this is a free web 2.0 based slide hosting service! That's gotta be worth way more than the ability to disassemble translate the XML in a frickin' PowerPoint into HTML, doesn't it?
Free: We monetize clicks on it.
Web 2.0: We track who uploads and who reads it, click by click, slide by slide, so instead of just some HTML with a bunch of IMG tags,
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In Korea, only old people use Web 2.0.
Another one? (Score:1)
So it's all web 2.0, but like all of these things you lose control of your data, and you're information is how they're making money.
Sorry, no.
Holy slashvertisement for Slideshare (Score:2, Interesting)
Are you kidding me Dice? Piss off. This is just distasteful.
I find presentation softwas (Score:2)
The way most people use it, all
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Score:5, Funny)
I hope they did the environmentally responsible thing and printed this book on toilet paper.
Been saying that about US currency... (Score:2)
What size roll do you think is right... um... give me the $1000 roll.
So you know your money is always worth a ....
Resume vs online presence (Score:-1)
Amazon hired a RPO (recruiting firm) to find software developers. These people basically troll linkedin for anyone with bingo-card skills within a certain radius of their next event. They don't look at the linkedin profiles of the people they find (because linkedin tells you if your profile has been viewed), and don't know who you are. You have to send them a resume, and then go (at your own expense) to their prequalification event, and only then can you ask Amazon for a job. So why bother having an online
So, basically, it's powerpoint + youtube? (Score:2)
I don't want to live on this planet any more.
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And Twitter! :)
Since no one else has brought this up (Score:0)
> free
From their ToS for the API:
> YOU SHALL NOT:
> [...]
> sell, lease, share, transfer, or sublicense the SlideShare APIs or access or access codes thereto or derive income from the use or provision of the SlideShare APIs, whether for direct commercial or monetary gain or otherwise, without SlideShare's prior, express, written permission; or
It's gratis proprietary software.
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Duh? They never claimed to be a freetard company.
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Do you know of any other API that is different?
We live in a proprietary world. Get over it.
The only other option is communism.
slashdot book reviews (Score:2)
The average rating of the last 5 book reviews is 8.4 out of 10. I think we need to see a review of something bad for a change.
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I think most reviewers don't want to:
1. waste there time on bad books
2. write a view of a bad book that may end up ultimately promoting it.
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I think Ben Rothke would give 8 out of 10 to "It was a dark and stormy night" by Snoopy.
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I love snoopy! its a classic!!
10 out of 10!!!