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You can view an interview of Scribd CEO here:

http://us.intruders.tv/index.php?action=article&id_article=659062&preview=1

I believe that Adobe did attempt to do this. They call it Flash Paper. It was no where near as successful as they had hoped. I am not sure that they ever got to the “streaming” part but I believe flash itself has streaming content capabilities when combined with the Flash Media Server.

Gave it a shot based on the recommendation, but looks like it isn’t up and running yet - error message said the embed code they gave me was the “old” version.

Looks promising though!

[I wonder why Adobe didn’t develop an iPaper viewer of its own. I guess they didn’t learn the lessons of online video.]

Check out Adobe Share. It’s a web-based application written in AIR that has similar functionality.

Adobe Share is clunky and you have to install all the AIR crap before you use it.

[...] Scribd iPaper | Video Demo | FAQ | Thanks Om. [...]

You need an Adobe ID to get started.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/share/

and

https://share.adobe.com/adc/login.do

Neel: the embed codes have been fixed and now display the iPaper code

PS. you do not need AIR to use this, and its a simple online tool to share and store different types of media including:

Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 formats, Rich Text Format (RTF), Open Office formats, text, and PDF.
• HTML
• Adobe supported image formats: GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG
• Creative Suite file formats
• SWF and Captivate formats
• ZIP

[...] morning, in conjunction with Scribd’s launch of iPaper, we’re announcing that OpenBox services will be available on shared file pages. This means [...]

“There is no way for Google to advertise against non-HTML documents such as PDF format files.”

Them’s fighting words Om.

[...] Funktionen von Desktop-Readern im Browser realisiert. Sechs Monate lang hat das Scribd-Team laut GigaOm an einem neuen Viewer namens Scribd iPaper gerabeitet. Hinter diesem Apple-like Namen steckt ein [...]

“If the tiny startup can replicate the popularity of YouTube…”

Somehow I don’t see people getting quite as excited about online documents as they would online videos. Kinda like saying a library should be just as popular as a movie theater on Friday night. I can see great advantages in a business environment, but not much for the general consumer market.

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Just a purely mechanical observation:

I just went and looked at Scribd and found a document of interest. When I went to blog it there was no simple way to copy the paragraph that demonstrated its importance so I could paste it into my blog.

You CAN embed the entire document and you CAN download the document for further use, and those are valuable features, but without the ability to copy/paste right off the display this will be a richly frustrating experience for bloggers, who will find a trove to explore and a multi-step not quite thought through process they must traverse every time they share.

just my 2Cents… very close guys. Very close.

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Adobe currently partners with Yahoo! to deliver advertising-supported PDFs.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/adsforpdf/

FlashPaper is a desktop application/convertor, and developers were always curious if Scribd received server-side licensing for the commercial convertor or simply applied a hack. The launch of iPaper solves the licensing issue for Scribd and may have been a required step for the company.

[...] OM Malik’s post on Scribd’s iPaper prompted me to try the service and so far and am very intrigued by the possibilities. It’s easy to sign up and the viewer works great. Here is an example of an embedded document. [...]

looks great, altho i’m not clear on what’s all that different about iPaper from the original Macromedia Flashpaper i first took a look at about 4 years ago (which i thought was awesome way back then). why Adobe couldn’t be doing this too, except for perhaps Acrobt / PDF corporate fiefdoms at risk? can someone elucidate further?

anyway, it’s an interesting product regardless… and Scribd looks like a winner.

along with Scribd, i’m very impressed with SlideShare.net. they’re doing something similar, altho a bit more on the professional side for presentations & powerepoints. if Scribd is YouTube, then maybe SlideShare is Flickr. actually i might say Scribd’s audience is Facebook; SlideShare’s audience is LinkedIn.

(full disclosure: recently became an investor/advisor in SlideShare, however i’ve been using it fanatically for over a year…)

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[...] *GigaOMによると全文検索も可能、APIも公開になったようです。 [...]

actually now that i think about it i think it’s EXACTLY the Acrobat fiefdoms at risk.

Consider:
* Macromedia comes out with FlashPaper, great Acrobat competitor that doesn’t require huge-ass download every time (Flash is on 98% of browsers)
* Adobe buys Macromedia, realizes it doesn’t need 2 technologies, quietly asphyxiates FlashPaper before people realize how much better it is
* Scribd takes a look, realizes it can rebuild FlashPaper as iPaper and kick Adobe’s Acrobat ass with Macromedia’s old product
* Scribd adds some monetization features for $$$ & differentiation

fucking brilliant. why didn’t i think of that?

damn.

[...] to say that I felt that old twinge of concern when I first saw Scribd, which just re-launched with a new format and features, including its own Flash-based document viewer. I think the service is great, but the business [...]

Kevin Kelly’s True Films eBook includes Adobe/Yahoo contextual ads: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002538.php (December 29, 2007)

Adobe’s PDF is capable of streaming since probably version 4.0. However, applications that create PDFs (including Acrobat) will not always enable the “Fast Web View” or the user neglects to “optimize” the file.

In addition, the web application serving the PDF file to the browser must also be “streaming” enabled — which is fortunately the case with almost all of the modern web platforms.

It is nice to see a tightly coupled (server + client) application where streaming is natural and not a user option.

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[...] Scribd also launched an API for iPaper, using these tools publishers can earn money by displaying adsense ads in their documents. The ad revenue is shared between the publisher and Scribd. Scribd QuickSwitch mode provides a code to paste in your sites, and all the documents you uploaded earlier will be converted to iPaper format. Source: GigaOm [...]

[...] rolled out a new version of their document sharing application with an improved Flash-based interface and the ability to [...]

[...] to be the worst code ever written taking over a minute to load a ton of crap - which I never use.  So my heart jumped when I heard about Scribd.   Goodbye [...]

[...] Gigaom has a perspective on some of the iPaper “advantages.” [...]

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That service looks naive, have a look at http://issuu.com/ much more professional and eye appealing too! & it’s for free

I have uploaded a sample pdf file to scribd and when i embed that file in my blog it says file is of older version. Any fix for it.

to get youtube-class buzz virality would would almost certainly involve massive copyright infringement across a far wider range of publishers, with a clear financial model (ads) for them to attack. awesome.

[...] Mit Ipaper hat die Dokumentenaustausch-Plattform Scribd einen flashbasierten Online-Viewer ver�ffentlicht, der Office- und PDF-Dateien direkt im Browser anzeigen kann. Das Ipaper-System erkennt neben PDF-, Postscript-, Word-, Excel-, Powerpoint-Dateien auch RTF-, Open-Office- und ODF-Dokumente. Mit Ipaper will Scribd laut CEO Trip Adler mit Adobe Reader konkurrieren. [...]

[...] That aspect alone separates iPaper from document-sharing services like DocStoc and Issuu, though I think the latter offers a much slicker viewer. What’s your take? [via GigaOm] [...]

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Scribd needs to get their copyright and licensing straight before they are going to go anywhere. (Flickr is a great model.) Everything on Scribd is licensed using a CC-BY-NC license, even though at no point does the user agree to this license. Scribd seems to be willfully ignorant in regard to copyright and licensing. Their video promoting ipaper uses several documents (supposedly licensed under the CC-BY-NC license) without attribution and for the commercial purpose of promoting their service.

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.

[...] Scribd’s iPaper Plan - GigaOM i thought FlashPaper was a very cool idea, so this is interesting. I do worry however that building an ad model on top of “user generated content” is likely to make youtube copyright infringement look like an easily managed cakewalk (tags: Flash scribd) [...]

[...] Earlier this week, the small startup Sribd launched its new iPaper viewer, which Om Malik did a review of with screenshots. Om sees iPaper as doing “pretty much everything you expect from Adobe Acrobat Reader, despite [...]

[...] GigaOm, I am more in favor of ease in sharing documents online and review quickly. If your interest is in [...]

What is the connection, if any, between Scribd’s iPaper and the Danmark-based firm called iPaper? http://www.ipaper.dk Aren’t the guys at Scribd a copycat?

[...] other software programs, especially given the potential for competition from companies such as iScribd. When Adobe launched its hybrid rich Internet application development platform AIR, CTO Kevin Lynch [...]

[...] Scribd, the startup that lets you share documents in a very spiffy online viewer (here’s the review at our parent site GigaOm). Now there’s a new way to get documents into their system, getting the benefits of unlimited [...]

[...] brainstorm some new Web 2.0 approaches for Scribd, a client that has some momentum coming off a big news announcement of iPaper last [...]

You Cant save it……….

[...] manner, including Wikipedia references, YouTube videos and photos from Flickr, or even PDF files (using Scribd’s iPaper technology.) You can manually add links from your own archives. (See [...]

[...] competitor, Scribd, which has reportedly raised $3.5 million from Redpoint Ventures, and recently announced iPaper. In comparison with Scribd, DocStoc is focusing on sharing of “business and legal [...]