I've seen slideshare used for making presentations but certainly not routinely. Dave McClure used slideshare to give his presentation at BarcampScotland2008.

I've seen slideshare used for making presentations but certainly not routinely. Dave McClure used slideshare to give his presentation at BarcampScotland2008. If I remember correctly there was just one incident when he moved backwards in the slide stack rather than forwards due to some issue with the interface. Overall though it went as smoothly as any presentation from powerpoint. Personally I wouldn't rely on a web service. I usually have a couple of backups of my presentation with me for anything important though and I would consider a web service as one of those additional backups. The presentation is at http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-scottish-pirates-aarrr http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-sco...