lalit.org » slideshare http://www.lalit.org Personal page of Lalit Patel, an engineer, entrepreneur, geek from Bhubaneswar, India. Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:23:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Powerpoint / Slideshow Karaoke http://www.lalit.org/lab/powerpoint-slideshow-karaoke http://www.lalit.org/lab/powerpoint-slideshow-karaoke#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:43:21 +0000 Lalit http://www.lalit.org/?p=239 Last year while I was at SlideShare.net, me and my friends were thinking of some cool ways to use our API. At the same time we were checking out emails from our users about how they are using sideshows in more fun way. Just then we came to know about PowerPoint Karaoke here and here.

Demo

After a few hours of javascript hacking, this is what I came up with.

How it works

It will fetch random (Creative Commons Licensed) sideshows from slideshare.net using the API. The application uses the SlideShare.net API and Prototype/Scriptacluous to create some pretty visual effects. The SlideShare Karaoke Randomizer was used for the first time on 11th July at the Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco!

Here’s a great writeup for how to run your own PPT karaoke.
More info on SlideShare.net blog here and here

Download

The code has been released under the CC-GPL license at Google Code project hosting.

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Interestingly, the same guy won the 1st prize last year for his presentation Shift Happens. Both of his presentations have a similar theme, they talk about statistics with the motive of generating awareness (or an emotion of insecurity) in the viewer and are thought provoking, I am not too sure about the authenticity of the statistics they bear. Nevertheless the presentation style is awesome. I loved it.


SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/thirst

I wrote about one of the contesting presentations earlier. It stood second.

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BTW, Slideshare is running Worlds Best Presentation contest. This one won my vote.

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