Make Your Documents Social Objects with Scribd

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Why would you share your documents with the world? Well, Scribd's CEO, Trip Adler has the answer: by sharing documents you make them social objects that a community can add onto. He gives us a demo and talks to us about how he got funded and how he is working to build a new kind of business all around the sharing of documents. He demonstrates how people are putting a variety of documents up from poetry, book proposals, resumes, and more.

Tags: community, document, documents, office 2.0, publish, scribd word processing, share, startup, trip adler, viewer

 

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Posted by Logan (not verified) on January 28, 2009 11:49 AM

I think that Scribd is not the only product of the kind. And how does it categorize the information proposed? is it able to operate with huge amounts of information?

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 19, 2009 2:07 PM
Posted by منتدى (not verified) on January 18, 2009 10:20 PM

Robert -- another great interview! I would like to see this in action, so I signed up! Thanks again!

Posted by John Wolpert (not verified) on December 19, 2008 8:40 PM

Check out what Scribd allowed me to do at http://www.thehiddenstage.com
I really like their solution. Way easier and fast than Google's Book submission program.

Posted by John Wolpert (not verified) on December 9, 2008 11:37 PM

I was skeptical about scribd - yeah, not a great name - but it is helping me change the game for my long children's book. I needed a solution that was plug and play and enabled me to give readers a terrific experience for my 400+ page book on my web site, and I really wanted a way for them to easily give me feedback on the book. Whala! Scribd. For authors, legitimate ones especially, what a great way to get real market data. Kids read it the book on my site, I count the hits, get their comments, and direct them to buy the paper copy on amazon. Awesome.

Posted by steveballmer (not verified) on March 20, 2008 4:26 AM

Nice try but not quite there with MSscribbler1.01b

Posted by ethnicomm (not verified) on March 19, 2008 12:48 AM

Looking forward to more interesting videos. Now how is this different from slideshare.net?

Posted by Lucas (not verified) on March 12, 2008 5:50 PM

Great video. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to see more interesting episodes.
best wishes from Dortmund, Germany

Posted by Robert Scoble (not verified) on March 12, 2008 7:07 AM

We have lav mics now. It took a while to get our equipment. Thanks!

Posted by Daniel Brusilovsky (not verified) on March 12, 2008 6:41 AM

Robert -- another great interview! I would like to see this in action, so I signed up! Thanks again!

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 11, 2008 5:43 AM

Mic looks goofy, get lav mics.

Posted by AC (not verified) on March 11, 2008 3:37 AM

This seems fairly useless. I doubt it would take off (dead in a couple of years is my guess). A blog is enough for sharing text (i.e. poems by emo kids and term papers by dorks). Why do VCs even fund this kind of crap, is it just the bad name? I'll launch crp.tst.ic and submit it to Digg to see if I get some money.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 11, 2008 3:25 AM

Your videos don't show unless javascript is turned on.