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Slide Reveals Big Stats (150 million daily views etc)
- mattjaynes 19y agoWow. This news really made me question how out of the loop I am with popular online culture. $20 million financing for a flash slide-show service? And 150 million daily views and 200K new slide shows created every day? This is definitely an opportunity I would have missed had I been a VC. Of course, my ignorance may be due to the fact that I've only ever been on MySpace maybe twice and Facebook never so far. Guess I better get out more ;)
- vlad 19y agoThey've been getting a lot of press ever since they launched their flash version. Slide has been featured in every business magazine, more than any other I can think of. As well, Max seems to participate in a lot of panels and speeches because of PayPal. I am not sure how much of it is because of Slide, and how much the PayPal - eBay connection. As a result, when you get that much press and users, you're GOING to succeed if you just keep adjusting the product to the users wants. Which, is exactly what he says he's doing. In every interview, he mentions that he doesn't know what's going to happen, but if you get as many users as you can, you'll get a large base of users to track statistically, and figure out what else to add or improve.
- sharpshoot 19y agoSlide's stated goal is be the pointcast of web 2.0 ie push content. The "slide shows" are what people pick up on however - its just a vehicle to a) understand the relationships between people you share content with b) register those preferences to push you new content. They are NOT just a slideshow company - they now have a distribution network you can't match and the key to Consumer Internet success is in building your distribution and then leverage/monetise that later with services on top of that. Slide is a legendary company going places. Don;t write them off.