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Slideshare closes $3M with Venrock

Slideshare, to which I am a big fan and advisor, just closed $3M with Venrock.  Here's an announcement:

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1,000-squared words.

Slideshare slammed with DDOS from China

Yesterday I ran into Slideshare co-founder and CTO Jonathan Boutelle in the Blogtropolus lounge.  He told me about the Denial of Service attacks from China that Techcrunch covered this morning.  It aimed to bring down political content through removal and password reset requests by fake users, and then a botnet attack last Thursday and Friday.  CNN had a similar attack. 

It continues now, perhaps after blog coverage, but that shouldn't stop people from raising awareness.  Think of it as recruiting a friendly botnet, on a political level.

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Slidecasting

Mike Arrington just blogged about tomorrow's launch of Slidecasting by SlideShare.  Slidecasting is a new media format, the combination of Powerpoint slides (everyone has the authoring tool) and audio (can be located anywhere), including podcasts (where it gets interesting).  While I'm a biased advisor to SlideShare, you will have to agree that multimedia on the web just got a whole lot easier and accessible.  And as objects you can socialize.

Here's an an example:

If I was an event organizer or podcaster, I'd be setting up a group on SlideShare now.

UPDATE: Launched, see the FAQ

UPDATE: Made my first Slidecast.  All it took was the time to listen to my 13 minute presentation while sliding some markers.  The editor UI is really easy.