We are excited to announce a major feature launch tonight - if you check out our home page you will now see an option to synchronize your video with slides.  This feature has been in private beta since we initially launched, and we are now happy to open it up to the world.

You can import your videos from YouTube, Google Video or Blip.tv as before, and now you can either upload your slides (in pdf format) or import your slides from SlideShare.

Once you’ve uploaded your slides, you can set each one to appear at a certain point in your video.  Once you have ’synchronized’ your slides, you’ll end up with something like this:

DHH at Startup School

As you can see we combine the best of YouTube and SlideShare to create a new way of experiencing presentations online.  We’re looking forward to people using this for talks, conferences, classes, training and more.  As always, we love hearing your feedback so let us know what you think!

We recently partnered with our good friends at Community Next to capture the action of their recent Platforms conference. Aside from being a great beta test of our upcoming platform, it was a great opportunity to learn the secrets behind Facebook application success.

The developers of the amazing applications listed below each talked about how they built, scaled and monetized their applications. Check them out to learn the secrets, and you’ll also get a sneak preview of our upcoming platform.

Please drop us an email to let us know what you like, or dont like, or just say hi!

	Top Friends (slide.com owned)	Keith Rabois
	Zombies (Vampires/Werewolves)	Blake Commagere
	Where I’ve been	Craig Ulliott
	Quizzes	Joe Winterhalter and Eric Diep
	(fluff)Friends	Mike Sego
	Grow-A-Gift (Case Study)	Keith Schact, Mark Achler and Ben Pollack
	Grow-A-Gift (Building a business)	Keith Schact
	Free Gifts	Zach Allia
	SocialMoth	Paul McKellar
	Honesty Box	Dan Peguine
	Food Fight	David Gentzel
	Visual Bookshelf	Edward Frederick
	Mardi Gras (Oktoberfest / Luau)
	Hot potato (Firecracker)
	Who am I?	Alex Backer