Thursday, October 05, 2006

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: SlideShare: the YouTube of Powerpoint

Socialtext's CEO explores SlideShare, noting: 

What's also fascinating is their servers are backed by Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service).  The other week when Socialtext 2.0 launched with a large-file webcast, we got Techcrunched and were worried about the load on our servers.  After a little scrambling in IRC, Pete Kaminski leveraged S3, and problem solved.  In this case, SlideShare has web serviced their scalability.  An interesting model to watch, and good thing if this thing is a sudden hit.

I'm guessing the ppt he converted came close to the 20 meg limit :)...

Source: Ross Mayfield's Weblog: SlideShare: the YouTube of Powerpoint

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