“YouTube for documents” opened
Startup Scribd out of closed beta testing and became available for public viewing, and there really is something to see.
Here, in the text on Habré, you cannot embed a Scribd module created using Macromedia FlashPaper technology, so we limit it to a screenshot, which, of course, does not transfer all the interactive functionality.
In fact, documents in the embedded module can be scrolled, scaled, full-text search and print. Macromedia FlashPaper technology (a web-based version of Adobe PDF) allows you to do all this without resorting to browser tools. You can study flash modules on embedded documents on the Scribd website . In the module, you can "drive" documents in formats .doc, .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .xls, .ps, .lit. You can also extract them from there as .mp3 - the built-in speech synthesizer recognizes all the text and voices it with a British accent ( sample ). That is, it is a finished machine for the production of audio books.
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In the same place, on a site, the present social network is created around a content which users publish. In the best traditions of YouTube, tags, comments and votes are supported. On the site now you can find a bunch of interesting documents and books. Some content is not completely legal, like this Visual C ++ tutorial for 21 days - here is another similarity to YouTube.
Today it became known that the startup Scribd received the first more or less serious tranche of venture financing in the amount of $ 300 thousand from an unknown “angel” (as investors are called at the first stage of investment). Before this, the only resources of a startup were $ 12 thousand, obtained in the Y Combinator incubator.
Here, in the text on Habré, you cannot embed a Scribd module created using Macromedia FlashPaper technology, so we limit it to a screenshot, which, of course, does not transfer all the interactive functionality.
In fact, documents in the embedded module can be scrolled, scaled, full-text search and print. Macromedia FlashPaper technology (a web-based version of Adobe PDF) allows you to do all this without resorting to browser tools. You can study flash modules on embedded documents on the Scribd website . In the module, you can "drive" documents in formats .doc, .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .xls, .ps, .lit. You can also extract them from there as .mp3 - the built-in speech synthesizer recognizes all the text and voices it with a British accent ( sample ). That is, it is a finished machine for the production of audio books.
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In the same place, on a site, the present social network is created around a content which users publish. In the best traditions of YouTube, tags, comments and votes are supported. On the site now you can find a bunch of interesting documents and books. Some content is not completely legal, like this Visual C ++ tutorial for 21 days - here is another similarity to YouTube.
Today it became known that the startup Scribd received the first more or less serious tranche of venture financing in the amount of $ 300 thousand from an unknown “angel” (as investors are called at the first stage of investment). Before this, the only resources of a startup were $ 12 thousand, obtained in the Y Combinator incubator.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/5104/
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