Testing new Adobe.com PDF embed feature
Curious to see how this compares to scribd.com and docstoc.com………
Adobe embed:
scribd embed:
docstoc embed:
Let me know which “widget” you like best in the comments. Thanks.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Curious to see how this compares to scribd.com and docstoc.com………
Adobe embed:
scribd embed:
docstoc embed:
Let me know which “widget” you like best in the comments. Thanks.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:14 am
I’m from Adobe’s Acrobat.com team, so I shouldn’t vote, but fwiw I think ours has the prettiest UI but docstoc’s is the most useful. Scribd’s annoys me because it doesn’t have a full screen mode - it redirects you to their site instead.
At any rate, although this comparison is useful if you are looking to put document previews on your blog/site, it really only covers half the story - we don’t really compete with either docstoc or scribd. Both of the latter are really intended to be ‘youtube for documents’ with a central portal where people can go to find and read things. We’re much more focused on being a location for people to do work on documents collaboratively. Our embedded viewer’s features were chosen with this goal in mind, which is why we considered features like search, etc lower priority - the important thing for us was to help you find the actual document you were looking for and then do work on the *original* document, not to be a reading environment for other people’s content.
This difference will become much clearer over time as we integrate buzzword documents and the like directly into our interface, so that we can have integrated view/edit/comment workflows directly within a single acrobat.com interface.