The YouTube embedding feature has been enhanced as well- the videos will now autoplay on reaching the video slide. To see this in action, check out this presentation (contains three YouTube videos)

For more videoslides, go here.

One hour later: Its back to normal… no worries… just a temporary glitch.

Congratulations slides2407! This is well deserved.

Four Category Prizes (iPhone + $100 iTunes card)

Best Design: This goes to Super Cool Dudes from amv8192

Best Story Telling Ability: This goes to The Story of H from LubomirP

Best Use of Multimedia: This goes to White Shaka - Graphic Novel from AlanBrody

Most Popular: This goes to Let’s Talk Poverty from dcaron

Big thanks to our awesome judges: Ann Handle, Don Tapscott, Om Malik, Pete Cashmore & Tony Hsieh.

Thanks to the contest sponsors, Fuze Meeting . We had a great time working with you. If you have not already, go give the Fuze meeting software a quick try.

1. Make sure you are logged into your SlideShare account before trying to import documents from Google Docs.

2. Click on the “Upload” link on the navigation bar at the top of the page.

3. Click on the “Import from Google Docs” link on the upload page.

4. Enter your Google Docs credentials so that we can go and get a listing of your documents from Google.

NOTE: We do not store your credentials.

5. Almost done… you should now see a list of documents retrieved from Google. Next, you select the ones you want to import and choose the privacy settings that suit you (private or public). Once you’ve made your selection just click on “Import to SlideShare” and we take care of the rest.

We have been testing it extensively but there may still be some bugs or conversion issues, so please let us know via our feedback form: http://www.slideshare.net/feedback

Stay tuned. We will also be sending information about your free Fuze Meeting accounts to everyone who submitted an entry. You should receive an email before end of the week.

1. Upload your presentation to SlideShare as usual.

2. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you want to insert.

3. Once your presentation converts, go to the Edit Slideshow and choose Insert YouTube Videos and paste the above URL in the form.

4. Add the SlideShare application on your LinkedIn profile and link your account.

5. Go to the Settings page and choose “Show complete presentation in player”

6. That’s it. Your presentation (with the embedded YouTube video) is on your LinkedIn profile!

So go ahead and add a lot more value to your LinkedIn profile with SlideShare!

(Thanks to Nathan Kievman)

To see contest entries and vote, go here.

We’ve had a huge response so far - app 2500 presentations from across the world have been entered into the contest, with close to 10000 overall votes already. The votes count is likely to rise significantly in the next 3 days… stay tuned.

If you are participating in the contest, ask your friend, family, colleagues etc to vote… you might just end up winning the top prize of 5000$.

Big thanks to the contest sponsors Fuze Meeting.

We will be updating the contest page with the new deadline very soon, but I wanted to let you all know about the extended deadline.

Other dates will remain unchanged: Votes can be cast upto June 22nd, 11.59 PM PST. Results will be announced within 2-3 days after the end of voting.

SlideShare is waiting for your stories. Go work on them :->

(Once again, thanks to our sponsors FuzeMeeting for working with us to extend this deadline)

The first of these decks is titled VC Non Admissions. The deck was adapted from a thread on ExpertCEO contributed by a range of CEOs and VCs about the top twelve things you’d never hear a VC say.

The reply came fast. And it was titled Founders Non Admission.

Founder Non-Admissions

View more OpenOffice presentations from Chris Yeh.

All for friendly, tongue-in-cheek banter.

6:36 AM PST: SlideShare is back up. We had a glitch with our servers which resulted in this unscheduled downtime.

The site is completely back to normal now. All clear!