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By: Scribd, Obama e prime impressioni | DigitalMarketingLab

Scribd, Obama e prime impressioni | DigitalMarketingLab — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:46:25 +0000

[...] Solis (come il suo Brian Solis Manifesto sui Social Media Manifesto) disponibili sotto forma di iPaper, il formato di visualizzazione utilizzato da Scribd; per cui mi avevo creato un mio profilo, senza [...]

By: The Universal Desktop mobile edition

The Universal Desktop mobile edition — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:23:59 +0000

[...] all but impossible until now. Scribd had a hack that allowed them to show AdSense inside of their Flash-based iPaper but beyond that there haven’t been a lot of good examples of using AdSense inside of RIAs. In [...]

By: Scott Macdonald

Scott Macdonald — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:13:13 +0000

YouPublish just implemented it’s own inline viewing system. Whereas iPaper let’s you view PDF documents, the viewer on YouPublish lets you prieview almost any kind of document: From MP3s to Word docs and PPTs to MOVs. It’s a pretty amazing viewer. Check it out at http://www.youpublish.com.

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Alfabetic :: Chinese » Blog Archive » Twiddla ：任何地方都可以使用的簡單的協作軟件， — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:51:51 +0000

[...] 除了可以定制相同的工具的靜態網站外，今天網站引進了對一些新的檔格式的支持。用戶現在可以標記電子郵件，裝飾物，和檔（在Scribd的iPaper查看）。該網站還實施了一系列的可用性增強功能，包括一個更強大的聊天功能和標準的熱鍵功能。 [...]

By: Publishing documents online | Digital Documents

Publishing documents online | Digital Documents — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:59:35 +0000

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By: Obama Campaign Launches Document Archive On Scribd | Web Data Source

Obama Campaign Launches Document Archive On Scribd | Web Data Source — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:59:27 +0000

[...] that are converted to a Flash format viewable on most computers. The document viewer, called iPaper, can also be embedded in web pages. Since its launch in 2007, Scribd has seen explosive growth, and [...]

By: Obama Campaign Launches Document Archive On Scribd

Obama Campaign Launches Document Archive On Scribd — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:11:01 +0000

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Twiddla―どこでも使える簡単なコラボレーションソフト — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:19:27 +0000

[...] 本日からこのサイトは、静的なWebサイト以外に、これらの同じツールを使ってマークアップできる新たなドキュメント形式をサポートする。これからは、メール、ウィジェット、各種の文書をマークアップできる（文書はScribdのiPaperで見る）。より安定したチャット機能、標準的なホットキーの機能などが実装され、使い勝手も良くなった。 [...]

By: Twiddla: Simple Collaboration Software That Works Almost Anywhere : Oragle

Twiddla: Simple Collaboration Software That Works Almost Anywhere : Oragle — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:22:50 +0000

[...] the same tools. Users can now markup emails, widgets, and documents (viewed through Scribd’s iPaper). The site has also implemented a number of usability enhancements, including a more robust chat [...]

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:21:50 +0000

By: Twiddla: Simple Collaboration Software That Works Almost Anywhere

Twiddla: Simple Collaboration Software That Works Almost Anywhere — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:05:46 +0000

By: Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn - biginfo.org

Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn - biginfo.org — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:52:55 +0000

[...] 17 million monthly visitors. It’s also recently been adding new features including an API and iPaper, a replacement for FlashPaper that allows authors to monetize their documents. But there have been [...]

By: Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn

Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:26:35 +0000

By: Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:06:23 +0000

Camilla:

You’ve been posting this silliness in every blog post about iPaper. It is not true that everything on Scribd is a CC-BY-NC license, that’s simply the default license. This is changeable in document properties.

Permission was secured for the documents used in the presentation where necessary.

We are working with Creative Commons to improve our licensing interface.

By: Missed the real story

Missed the real story — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:16:14 +0000

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By: Musematic » iPaper

Musematic » iPaper — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:23:49 +0000

[...] Google has a finger in the pie. From techchrunch.com: “Document sharing on the Web via embeddable Flash players keeps getting better all the time. [...]

By: Camilla

Camilla — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:19:56 +0000

Scribd needs to get their copyright and licensing straight before they are going to go anywhere. (Flickr is a great model.) They seems to be willfully ignorant in regard to copyright and licensing. Their video promoting ipaper uses several documents (supposedly licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC license) without attribution and for the commercial purpose of promoting their service. (It’s ironic that one of the documents used is titled “The Fair Use Defense to Copyright Infringement”–it’s a presentation by a lawyer at Fenwick & West LLP.)

Everything on Scribd appears to be licensed using a CC-BY-NC license, even though at no point does the user agree to this license. The user does not have to agree that they are the copyright holder either, although a note says “don’t upload anything you don’t own the copyright to”).

Legally, if the license doesn’t hold up, then no one can reuse, redistribute, or even embed documents on Scribd. This seems to be quite a problem for their advertising model, regardless of their problems with copyright infringement.

By: Amander

Amander — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:43:48 +0000

I think the real problem is that publishers don’t want to link to external site to give users access to their content, it’s a domain branding issue.

According to their FAQ:
Can I host iPaper on my own servers?
Not at this time. iPaper runs on a professionally managed, highly secure server cluster, guaranteeing that your documents will be accessible and safe at all times. Our server cluster allows us to offer high performance for processing and searching, no matter how many documents you have – at an unbelievably low cost.

When they can fix this (and I imagine it’d make the process more complicated) I think it’ll be a sure win.

By: mmt

mmt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:41:42 +0000

Not sure if this is money well-spent. To the average consumer there isn’t much difference between this and Flashpaper. Of course, if Adobe was going to discontinue support… I also imagine this will awaken the Adobe beast from its slumber.

By: Manoj Ranaweera

Manoj Ranaweera — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:53:48 +0000

4LawNotes.com, you do not always need to be the first with an idea. It’s all in the execution, plus history is littered with companies that have entered the market second or third and have beaten the first mover advantage, e.g. Pepsi.

Secondly, you can also find ways to differentiate – it’s the application and not the technology that matters at the end.

Find a way to get your idea to market. Don’t give up that easily. It cost very little to get an idea of the group, if you got enough people believing in your idea.

Regards, Manoj

By: Manoj Ranaweera

Manoj Ranaweera — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:47:38 +0000

Great to see edocr covered here. Guys at Scribd has done a great job – perhaps money well spent.

Just listened to Trip Adler on intruders.tv, which proves the significant gap between US and the UK when it comes to funding startups.

I was at Second Chance Tuesday last night listening to Niklas Zennstrom. The issues have not changed. Joost, Skype, etc – its all about getting a foot hold first – what’s called the value creation (demonstrating use of product to users) – before revenue generation.

This is completely opposite to the traditional business where profitability and cash flow resulting from revenue is the king. I wonder, could a digital startup be value creating (in the eyes of Joost) and be profitable, within 1 to 2 years of setting up?

If profitability is the goal, what impact does this has on going after traffic (docs + user base)? Or is it all about having a good time?

Feel free to drop in at: http://www.manojranaweera.com and http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk

We will update our progress through Mike Butcher in the UK.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:12:34 +0000

Does anyone know of any third party software that can convert a pdf to flash and be used only in your local application? Im not looking for an API, but before I read this today I was talking to my client about the same exact thing. Interesting.

By: Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:16:24 +0000

Jim @ 15: Each component of the API lets you mark documents as “private.” Private documents will only appear where you embed them and will not appear on Scribd or in Scribd’s search index.

By: Sanibel Photographers of Leap Year Photography

Sanibel Photographers of Leap Year Photography — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:15:55 +0000

All you have to do is look at Amazon’s Kindle to know that anything like this will be a successful. First with text, then the next thing will be photography, and then who knows. Maybe we will be providing wedding albums this way…