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Scribd launches iPaper: Embed documents on any site

Posted Feb 19th 2008 1:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Office, Web services, web 2.0

iPaper
Document sharing service Scribd has launched a new platform called iPaper that makes it easy to upload and embed PDF and Office documents on any web site. The iPaper viewer is based on Adobe Flash, which means it loads quickly and can be embedded on any web page just as easily as a YouTube video.

You can share documents by uploading them to Scribd and grabbing the embed code. Scribd has also released an API that lets web publishers add iPaper tools to their own sites. The company is also letting publishers embed Google AdSense ads in documents, which lets you monetize your content.

The document viewer is pretty slick. You can view multi-page documents easily. And you can navigate large documents using your mouse or keyboard. Check out a sample after the jump.

[via GigaOm]

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Issuu: Turn PDF files into online flip books

Posted Feb 5th 2008 5:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0



While there are plenty of services out there that let you embed a PDF file on a web page, Issuu has to be the prettiest we've seen. When you upload a PDF document, Issuu converts it into web-based document that looks more like a book than a text document. The PDF can then be embedded on pretty much any website, including Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, or Blogger pages.

We submitted the Brooklyn Area Guide from the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, because it just happened to be the first PDF we could find. We don't know what that says about us, but you can see the result above.

The text is a bit hard to read, but you can click on the file to open up a larger player in another window, complete with a full screen mode.

[via Digital Inspiration]
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Free Docstoc invites for Download Squad readers

Posted Oct 5th 2007 12:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0


A few days back we gave away a handful of invitations to DocStoc, a new online document sharing community. It's sort of like Scribd, but with more an emphasis on professional documents like contracts, budgets, and leases.

The site is still in a closed beta, and our first five invitations disappeared pretty quickly. But DocStoc CEO Jason Nazar has agreed to give Download Squad readers a chance to check out the service. Just enter the invitation code "downloadsquad" on the registration page.
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Get your stuff online with Scribd

Posted Mar 13th 2007 2:00PM by Chris Gilmer
Filed under: Audio, Fun, Internet, Web services, Social Software

scribd lets you store and share your stuffComing out of a private beta, Scribd lets users share and store their stuff, because we all have a lot of stuff to share.

Scribd's users can upload Text files, PDF's, MP3's, MS Office files into a public database. Descriptions and tags can than be attached to the ever-growing database of stuff, making it easier for other users to find, categorize, and vote on. Once uploaded, any items can then be embedded as html, or flashpaper documents onto other social networks or websites..

The Scribd site is filled with a ton of, stuff. With everything from Witty mid term answers to beautiful photography. When viewing documents, depending on formats, you have the option of downloading them in PDF, Powerpoint, Word, and Txt formats. You can also choose to listen or download the mp3 files with a built in player through Scribd's text-to-speech.

So what's the purpose of Scribd? Some say it's a text version of YouTube, I'm not so sure yet. It's a giant social network library of miscellaneous things. I guess its now up to the users, and what they want to accomplish with the service. The team has just got a fresh stack of cash from Angel investors to throw towards development.
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