Category — SlideShare

The SlideShare server cluster (which lives in “sunny” San Francisco) is a friendly gaggle of celeron, pentium, and Xeon machines. The servers are all named after Bollywood actresses (For people not familiar with that term, Bollywood refers to the Indian movie industry with its center at Mumbai). At the bottom of the screen on each SlideShare page, you can see the name of the web server that is responding to your request!

Ash is a Pentium 4 machine with 2 Gigs of RAM, and is used as a web server. She won Miss World in 1994, and is often referred to as the “Queen of Bollywood”.

Celina is a Celeron machine with 2 Gigs of RAM that also is our second web server. She was born in Kabul but raised in Calcutta, and was crowned Miss India in 2001.

Bipasha is another Celeron with 2 Gigs of RAM, responsible for all file conversions and processing. She is considered one of Bollywood’s most controvertial actresses.

Dia is a Xeon with 4 Gigs of RAM and RAID 1. She runs the database, and most recently starred in the Indian adaptation of the film “Fight Club”.

We haven’t found the need for a fifth machine, but there’s only one bollywood actress I know of whose name begins with E, so it will probably be named Esha!

This is the original post on the SlideShare blog

Ever wanted to share your presentations on the web in a simple and elegant manner. Without having to send huge presentations as email attachments. Well if that is you, check out SlideShare.

Slideshare is a new service that we at Uzanto have launched today. Think Powerpoint and then think YouTube. Does it ring a bell somewhere? Well that’s SlideShare for you.

Its got Techcrunched today and this is what Mike Arrington says in his review-

“SlideShare is clean, fast and functional and supports various copyright claims, including creative commons. I’ll be using it to post presentations I give at future conferences for archiving purposes. In addition, if any company requesting a profile on TechCrunch would like to send a presentation deck for public viewing, I’ll show that presentation in the TechCrunch profile using SlideShare.”

Essentially, Slideshare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint and OpenOffice presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others’ presentations, and comment on individual slides. It’s a great way to share your ideas with others, or to learn from other people. And it’s free.

Check out this sample embedded slideshow (Its the cutest slideshow that has been uploaded till now). Use the buttons in the player’s panel to browse the slides.

Heres what the Homepage looks like

And heres a snapshot of the “Latest” page

Well at present the application is on a “invites only” basis. So in case you are interested, send me a one line email at amit@uzanto.com . Or go to Slideshare and sign up for the invite. We’ll send it straightaway.

I shall write more about it later; for now we have a long night ahead, trying to brave the onslaught of the Techcrunch and the Digg maniacs….