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SlideShare closes series A funding with $3M

This is big news for me - SlideShare secured $3M funding, mainly from Venrock and few angel investors. We’ve bootstrapped till now, and this is the first major money that we have picked up from investors. It has been an exciting journey so far, and is just getting better now.

I am taking this moment out to thank all SlideShare users who have justified the use case for sharing presentations online. This is for you guys! We promise to continuously make SlideShare more and more useful to you.

Here’s the “Meet Henry” style annoucement:

Here is some coverage of the event across the web:
Techcrunch: SlideShare Secures $3M for Embeddable Presentations
Mashable: SlideShare Gets $3M for Online Presentations
News.com: Can SlideShare make PowerPoint sharing interesting?

And now, a 26″ LCD TV

Yea, my bro needs it to plug it with his XBox 360 and watch DVDs, my mom needs it for clearer, better TV experience and I need it for … umm … dunno!

Anyway, so its happening. I’m evaluating 26″ LCD TVs these days. I always knew there is one for me around the corner, but this is happening a bit sooner than I anticipated. I’ve zeroed-in on two models - Sony KLV-26V300A and LG 26LC7D, and am not too sure which one to buy. LG seems to be beating Sony on technical front but Sony’s brand name is unbeatable. What do you guys think? Help me out yaar…

Sony KLV-26V300A    LG 26LC7D

One XBox 360 for my bro

So, after long research, my brother finally decided to settle down for XBox 360. Yes, he’s been hounding me to get him a gaming console or upgrade the video card in his PC. I usually like specialization, and hence, agreed to get him a gaming console. I think that this move will make him play better, faster games with hardware suited to play games. Makes sense. I also think that this will enable him to use his computer for something other than gaming. Makes double sense. So, thats how it stands - he’ll have his XBox 360 soon.

Now, what made me write this post. This article over here - http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2008/03/27/consoles-to-die-out-in-the-next-5-to-10-years/

Suddenly realized how cool it would be if the cable TV provider starts to provide games on TV on _watever_ business model. Sure death for gaming consoles.

Leander Kahney is a jackass?

Hehe. I had a laugh riot while reading this - http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/kahney_jackass

FriendFeed is not friendly

I had high hopes. FriendFeed looked like a great service. Great idea, simple and clean UI - works for me. But only until I had desire of embedding my friends’ feeds on my blog. I imagined it would have been awesome if I could parse ATOMized RSS from FriendFeeds and show on sidebar. But FriendFeed refused to play. Its not serving up RSS to my code. Sucks.

Update: Heard that FriendFeed API is coming. Cool. Looking forward to it. Hope it gives me RSS.

Update 2: Got a reply from FriendFeed giving me the correct URL to get embed code. Pinned up the widget on the sidebar. What do I need now? I want to customize this widget since its too big and the blue theme does not suit my blog. Anyone hearing?

Searching for Kapil on Google

Kapil on Google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kapil

Coolio!

Photos from the Geek Party

Don’t ask me no questions. It was plain rockin! :D

Uzanto Geek/Usability Party in Delhi

Heya, we’re having a party this Friday (1st Dec) from 6PM to 9PM at our Uzanto Delhi office. It’s an informal get-together. There’ll be food, drinks and socializing. And ye, the Slideshare team will be there! All are welcome.

Just add your name on the wiki here and come along. You’ll find address etc on the wiki.