Tweet Brainshark released App for the iPhone and iPad

Brainshark, Inc., the on-demand presentations service and content marketplace has released App for the iPhone and iPad, downloadable for free from Apple’s App Store. With this new application, Brainshark users will be able to view Brainshark presentations on iPhone and iPad. The Brainshark App provides an enhanced mobile viewing experience for users of these devices.

“Being ‘reachable by cell phone’ while out of the office is no longer enough. Today’s information workers need to remain connected, productive and in-the-know at all times,” said Ira Weinstein, senior analyst and partner, Wainhouse Research. “The new Brainshark App for the iPhone and iPad brings the power of the Brainshark platform, and more importantly, access to their company’s library of on-demand rich media presentations, to iOS users around the world without sacrificing manageability or the user experience.”

After installing the free app, users can take advantage of capabilities designed to optimize viewing, sharing, learning from and accessing mobile presentations:

Enhanced Viewing – Brainshark App users can:

·         Use the table of contents – containing thumbnails, titles and the duration of each slide – to easily and efficiently navigate presentations. By clicking on different areas, users can skip directly to the portions of greatest interest.

·         Access presentation attributes, including the description, length, author information and more.

·         Download any attachments associated with a presentation onto their mobile device.

Instant Sharing – Viewers can:

·         Click to share links to presentations via e-mail.

·         Post links to presentations on social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Delicious.

On-the-go Learning – Users have:

·         Instant access to a searchable and growing library of free eLearning content, created by the myBrainshark community of subject matter experts.

·         The ability to browse more than 1,000 titles on a diverse set of topics relevant to businesspeople.

To download the Brainshark App for the iPhone and iPad, visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brainshark/id412495352?mt=8.

Tweet Now pay for private uploads on SlideShare

SlideShare, world's largest presentation sharing platform which adopted fermium model with the launch of  premium pro plans couple of months back has been experimenting different things to monetize SlideShare. Latest in the list is private upload and sharing. Now one has to go pro in order to share presentations privately. Private sharing was launched by SlideShare in 2007 declaring it absolutely free. In past SlideShare experimented with Job broad as well.

To pitch Pro accounts, SlideShare now has two different upload buttons for private and public uploads.

authorSTREAM, SlideShare's competitor still offers 50 private uploads to free members.