Zoho is pulling together its three main Webtop productivity products (Zoho Write, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show) into a central destination: Zoho Share. Just as Microsoft bundles its corresponding desktop products into its Office suite, bundling makes sense on the Web as well. Zoho already does this with Zoho Apps, as does Google which has long bundled its Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation apps into Google Docs. With Zoho Share, Zoho does take things a step forward, though, by adding social elements and a friendlier user interface.
As with Google Docs, you can share your Zoho docs privately or publicly. And any public Zoho App is automatically posted to Zoho Share. You can also upload documents and PDFs directly to Zoho Share. But the site also includes tabs for finding the most popular public content and people.
Any public document can be rated, bookmarked, emailed, or embedded as a widget elsewhere. You can find related documents by the same author, and any author’s documents can be delivered as a feed. If you don’t know an author, you can add them as a friend, and chat functionality is built in. In this way, Zoho Share is trying to create a more social experience around sharing documents.
Businesses can use Zoho Share to share documents only in private groups, and individuals can use it as a dashboard to manage all of their own Zoho documents, spreadsheets, and presentations (as well as keep tabs on their friends’ documents).
Well this week looks good in this topic…..First it was Microsoft launching the Photosynth #D and now Zoho…Pretty good week
http://vishtech...experience.html
Well this week looks good in this topic…..First it was Microsoft launching the Photosynth 3D and now Zoho…Pretty good week
http://vishtech...experience.html
Looks fairly user friendly, but it seems as though it is a social network of sorts. Kind of reminds me of slideshare or docstoc or scribd in some ways.
I thought zoho was targeting SMBs, but I guess they are getting more personal/ student users. Interesting…
Is Zoho now a direct competitor to docstoc and Scribd?
While they do not have great categorization or navigation and they do not have a flashpaper (iPaper) alternative, they DO offer the ability to edit and collaborate. This is the hybrid model people have been looking for.
Lets see if they can compete in both the google-docs market and the docstoc market at the same time.
Zach, the emphasis is different. Scribd & Docstoc focus on “YouTube for documents” angle, while our vision is “Sharepoint Meets YouTube”. The emphasis is on organizational sharing & collaboration, i.e the “Sharepointness” of it, with YouTube style elements borrowed.
It is a key difference in emphasis. In keeping with it, our players are simple HTML/Javascript, and we have avoided too much Flash …
I hope this helps.
Sridhar
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Looks like a more effective portal to have various “docs” repository. Something like a document repository combined with social networking. Itz a great experience to Surf through. Lot of nice docs and slides on versatile topics. Nice site to share our buddies with interesting Stuff.
Thanks Zoho community for this site. Instant success rarely happens ? But this happened everytime with these guys.Yet another Triumph for them.
this sounds good. zoho rocks!!!
Interesting… I will give it a try…
This seems like a direct competitor for Microsoft’s LiveMesh.
I haven’t had a great experience with Zoho. It takes ages to load documents and I find it to be very slow.
Actually, this seems like a pretty direct ripoff of share.acrobat.com, only without the flash/flex UI…
Of course, I work on the former product, so perhaps I’m biased.
Blah, Blah, Blah..Didn’t Google already do this??
http://www.yout...h?v=s1if9kLJpWw
I wish Zoho would ad a 3D CAD program into its collection of software.