We are happy to anounce that the first round of indexing in Italy has been completed and that we now have almost 27000 presentations coming from 48 different Italian universities. The total amount of presentations coming from Italy is now roughly 28000.

Italian universities can be found here and the Italian presentations can be found here.

We have done a minor update to the first page. SlideFinder has indexed presentations in 23 languages so far and these can now be reached from the first page. The presentations are thus grouped by languages and sorted by date of index.

Our first November update is now out and contains a minor list of of improvments.

By order of appearance:

• Web page compression
  • All pages are now compressed to improve the time it takes to transfer a page to the user. Users in Europe and the US may not see a difference but hopefully users over in Asia and down-under will see an improved page generation.
• Embed functionality
  • Till now you have only been able to link to presentations that you have found on SlideFinder. As of today you can also embed a presentation within your own website or blog. See below for an example.
• Faster searches
  • We have made some improvments to the search engine that should show up to 13 seconds improvments in special cases.
• Diminished space between slides and increased right column

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• Involve your audience from the first few minutes
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• Use PowerPoint to structure an interactive presentation

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Ellen Finkelstein has been using AutoCAD since 1986 and PowerPoint since 1996. She is a recognized expert, speaker, and best-selling author on AutoCAD, PowerPoint, and presenting effectively. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She is Associate Editor of Inside PowerPoint, published by Eli Journals.

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We are happy to announce that Hindi has been added as an interface language to the search engine. We would like to express our thanks to Ajit Sheth and his wife Jyoti Sheth.

An upgrade to the Polish interface has been made where some parts of the translation were not optimal.

We will be coming out with some new exiting features, planned for November so please keep your eyes opened.

SlideFinder team

We would like to thank Radoslaw Koscik for providing Polish as an interface language to SlideFinder. SlideFinder is now available in eight different languages.

Along side the increased South Korean traffic we are also seeing an increase in traffic from Japan, and Japanese presentation indexing will therefore also be a priority.

We are happy to see a dramatic increase of visitors coming from South Korea. We are therefore working on indexing presentations from South Korea from now on. We still do not have a working interface in Korean so if someone feels like doing a quick translation you are welcome to contact us here.

We have now released a Beta version of SlideFinder Add-in for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The Add-in is available in English, Swedish, German, Spanish and Russian at the moment.

English
The SlideFinder Add-in, a new PowerPoint^® 2007 Ribbon, lets you search the web for presentations and slides from within PowerPoint^®. The SlideFinder Add-in also enables you to add the slides you find to your current presentation.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/addin-en.aspx

Русский
SlideFinder, для PowerPoint^® 2007 Ribbon, осущесвляет поиск презентаций и слайдов из PowerPoint^® в Интернете. SlideFinder Add-in также позволит Вам добавить слайды в Вашу текущую презентацию.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/AddIn-ru.aspx

Español
El SlideFinder Add-in, una nueva cinta PowerPoint^® 2007, le permite buscar el web para encontrar presentations y diapositivas desde PowerPoint^®. El SlideFinder Add-in le permite añadir las diapositivas que encuentra a su presentacion.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/AddIn-es.aspx

Svenska
SlideFinder Add-in, en ny PowerPoint^® 2007 Ribbon, låter dig söka efter presentationer och bilder på nätet innifrån PowerPoint^®. Du kan också lägga till de bilder du hittar till din nuvarande presentation i PowerPoint^®.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/AddIn-sv.aspx

Yes, as of today, the SlideFinder interface is available in Japanese. We are now supporting English, Swedish, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. I would like to extend our thanks to Akane for her great translation. Akane lives in Sweden and writes about Scandinavia for the japanese population back in Japan. Please visit her website and blog.