Slide.com closes another funding round
By Vivek | November 15th, 2006 at 03:12 am ET
Funding keeps flowing into photo sharing market even when video sharing sites are the in-thing. Today Slide.com announced that it has closed another round of funding lead by Mayfield Fund. Other investors in the round included Khosla Ventures and two previous investors, BlueRun Ventures and Founders Fund. Slide was started by Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, in 2004.
Slide provides users with ability to upload photos and create slideshow using various templating options. Users can upload images from their desktop or from their Photobucket, Flickr account, or import them from a URL. Once you are done uploading, Slide quickly generates a Slideshow of the photographs. Slide gives out a code snippet that you can add to your accounts located at any of the social networking and blogging sites including MySpace, facebook, Hi5, Xanga, Yahoo 360, Blogger, Tyepad, and Live Spaces. Slide also provides screensaver and RSS feeds for your slidshows.
Best part– Slide.com is free. Sounds like a good option in case you don’t feel like paying Photobucket or Flickr.
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on February 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
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on May 16th, 2007 at 9:24 am
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on June 7th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
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on June 15th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Which of these sites to the best multimedia - photo video effects? Any professional grade?