Imagine youtube and replace the vidoes with documents. That's scribd.com. It is as simple as it sounds, somebody uploads documents, you view them.
Its the place for finding some of the most interesting documents floating around on the web.
The viewer is a neat little application which shows you docs in flash-paper, which loads faster than .pdf formats(and doesn't crash your browsers). You also have the option of downloading the documents in .txt, .doc, .pdf formats or hearing them in .mp3 format. The mp3 format is powered by text-to-speech(british accented speech) package of scribd.com. If you've logged on then, you can save your favorited documents on your profile page.
On scribd, you can upload documents without registering for an account. It accepts all the popular formats(.doc, .pdf, .txt, .lit, .ppt, .htm). If you've created an account, then you can view stats for your documents like no. of view, geographic location of viewers, referring links etc.
The site also has some basic networking features and you can have friends, internal mail, list of favorited documents etc.Scribd.com brag fact: The guys who founded it and run it are still at undergraduate school :O .
Slideshare.net is a site which is very specifically only for powerpoint presentations.
Abhishek
2 comments:
Great concept
Mike
http://www.whatshottoday.com
Thanks :). keep reading.
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