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Even worse, they are going the way of a company built around a feature. Kiko users would have had to consciously move to Google Calendar. With PDF viewing most
by andr 18y ago
Even worse, they are going the way of a company built around a feature. Kiko users would have had to consciously move to Google Calendar. With PDF viewing most people won't even notice if what they are using changed. (I'm not ranting against Scribd - the same applies to others, like YouTube, which are essentially viewers for data that's hard to view.)
Scribd's approach of being a destination website is completely broken IMHO, because the Web already has a destination to read any type of text - the Web itself. What they should've had is a Firefox plugin that captures my PDF links and opens them in Scribd instead of Adobe Reader. Google is doing this for mail and I'm sure a feature like that is in the plans for Google Toolbar.
- emmett 18y agoThis is a completely different thing than Scribd. Scribd is a document uploading and management service that converts .pdfs, .docs, .xls, everything under the sun. This is an extremely nice way to view PDFs linked to from google search and gmail.
- lacker 18y agoIt doesn't seem completely different. Scribd: Upload a document, make it visible to anyone Gmail: Email a document, make it visible to anyone (that you explicitly name) Scribd: Converts pdf, doc, xls, lots of stuff Gmail: Converts pdf, doc, supports any file type (the recipient may need software for it) Seems to me like both are squarely aimed at the "sharing documents" market.
- emmett 18y agoScribd is all about turning documents into public URLs. The new google service is about sending documents to people or small groups.