They Are Scribd(latimesblogs.latimes.com)

35 pointsby ed18 anni fa12 comments

latimesblogs.latimes.com

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/they-are-scribd.html

6 comments

The selling point: No more downloading; you can view everything in your browser.

Huh? What have I been doing up till now?

breck18 anni fa

Your browser contains an entire copy of the Internet. Haven't you noticed the immense amount of RAM Firefox and IE take up nowadays?

alaskamiller18 anni fa

Being miserable. Rejoice at this new bright future of no more downloading.

schoudha18 anni fa

Did they really get 21 million users in May! That's crazy - it's competitive with Digg.

Compete shows them in the low millions though...

bayareaguy18 anni fa

Has anyone done a good comparison of Scribd vs PDF taking into account things like latency and browsing over a slow connection? I never even think about the time it takes to download a PDF on my DSL line but I can imagine that Scribd might be better at letting you see just the first page of a document over a bad connection.

ericb18 anni fa

Hmm... I tried to look at some of the popular documents, but they come up empty (gray background only). Can anyone else confirm they see the same thing?

jasonbentley18 anni fa

It could be your Flash player. Make sure you have the latest update.

ivankirigin18 anni fa

I noted the same thing on FireFox 3, but camino worked just fine.

ed18 anni fa

Hey Ivan and Eric,

Does the document re-appear when you change the zoom level? If so, this is a known issue and a fix should be deployed soon.

In any case please feel free to email me if you ever discover a bug we may not be be aware of (ed at scribd.com). Thanks, guys!

ivankirigin18 anni fa

Thanks. Works now in FF3 - so I can't really be of much help.

Mistone18 anni fa

latimes showing some ycombinator love of late. good write up, captures the unique side of this cool company. sounds like a fun place to work.

kaos18 anni fa

i love scribd, more for the comunity (groups, friends, comments, related docs, etc) than for the ipaper itself.

but i'm afraid that if the site become too popular they will be teased by copyright, and ruin the whole site (for my personal usage).