We Make Our Tools And The Shape Us via Slide.com
Jon Husband made a mention of a new service that creates and hosts slideshows based on a collection of photos, called Slide.com.. So I uploaded the image version of the presentation I gave a few weeks back in Lisbon at SHiFT, called We Make Our Tools And They Shape Us.
Aside from not allowing me to upload a directory of pictures all at once (wouldn't that be simple?), I found Slide.com straight forward and easy to use. If i were a better host, I would've actually used the caption feature to add something to the preso, but I am too busy, alas.
Stowe, The "slide" doesn't work in your RSS feed in bloglines. I see it fine here at the site, but not in bloglines. It gives some message about the "Slide Show code seems goofed up. Please embed the code again." I'm guessing that has something to do with the changes to the code via either the XML or Bloglines. Might get more click through traffic out of your RSS subscribers if you keep that up. ;)
Posted by: thatedeguy | October 23, 2006 at 02:36 PM
Stowe, Slide isn't new. In fact, it was one of the earlier Flash based slide show/loop widgets out there (earlier as in I first read about it around Sept. '05). But I still consider it one of the best.
Posted by: Ken Yarmosh | October 24, 2006 at 04:39 AM
Sorry I didn't know about it sooner, ken. i would have liked to, and it will be useful for a large site on which I am collaborating (http://www.constellationw.com/fr/recherche_schematique.asp) which presents a lot of information visualisation schemas.
Currently, I have to save each shema as a .jpg, and then transfer to Slide, in order to storyboard or create some sort of mash-up with other content that Slide can handle. I do like the notion of being able to "horizontalize" the same content that might be in a blog post, or combine the two.
What i would like to know more about is how Slide.com might be integrated into a web site somehow, so that users of the site can use the content from the site (in this case a content-heavy site like Constellation W) to work with that content and incorporate other content. Yeah, I know you can save content in Slide.com-compatible formats and then load it in, but I am already wondering about customized applications of the basic capabilities.
Posted by: Jon Husband | October 27, 2006 at 07:07 PM
I just made a long comment into which I actually put some thought, checked the spelling, etc. Did it disappear ?
Posted by: Jon Husband | October 27, 2006 at 07:09 PM
Hey, cool tool! I also enjoyed watching your presentation and imagining you give it.
But I am not sure I would celebrate the decline of the third place. I wonder how the third space might bring us back to the third place (and reduce our TV time)?
Posted by: Britton Manasco | October 30, 2006 at 06:39 AM