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• Gwiki technologies making headway

  
  I Think — Authority: 429
  When we launched Visible Pas t a few years ago, there was very low interest in geographic wiki applications. Geo wikis are editable sites that interact with mapping services. (For details, see the Read Write Web covergage of our Visible Past Virtual Omaha project). Since then, a new generation of geo wikis has been ...
  3 hours ago

• Need suggestions on libraries or products for displaying rich documents (Word, PDF, etc) in web pages

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 642
  Scribd alternatives? Need suggestions on libraries or products for displaying rich documents (Word, PDF, etc) in web pages, like Scribd , but one that I can host. Scribd is pretty cool, but it requires that you upload and host the document on their servers. This is likely a non-starter for the company I work for. ...
  2 days ago

• Scribd Important Stuff List Revealed (Humor)

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 170
  “Scribd doing 43M revenue this year??” was the subject line of an email sent to me last week, along with a link to this photo, taken in Scribd’s San Francisco offices, showing a list of “important stuff” on a whiteboard. Our tipster must not have read the whole list, though, because I was immediately ...
  4 days ago

• New and improved experiment format

  
  Raising Smart Girls — Authority: 124
  So….In keeping with my wishes of the previous post, I tried out a brand new, 3-part experiment for my other blog about Exploring Density and Charles’ Law Using Ivory Soap. I made it very user-friendly by creating a printable method and results sheet for parents to use. It was pretty simple to upload [...]
  1 week ago

• Roleplaying in the Dune universe

  
  Stargazer's World — Authority: 129
  Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my favorite SF books. I’ve read several of the sequels but in my opinion the first book was the best. My father owned a hardcover version of the book that had the painting of a sandworm on its cover. From the first moment I saw this cover I was intrigued. Since then I have read the ...
  1 week ago

• You Got That Right, Ecclesiastes!

  
  Publishing in the 21st Century — Authority: 119
  "All is vanity." Ecclesiastes ********************** The uproar over Harlequin Enterprises launch of a self-publishing venture reminded me of something my father used to say. He was an honest businessman, but every once in a while, when he saw an unscrupulous competitor getting stinking rich, he would shake his head ...
  1 week ago

• You Got That Right, Ecclesiastes!

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 588
  "All is vanity." Ecclesiastes ********************** The uproar over Harlequin Enterprises launch of a self-publishing venture reminded me of something my father used to say. He was an honest businessman, but every once in a while, when he saw an unscrupulous competitor getting stinking rich, he would shake his head ...
  1 week ago

• Revisiting “So Dark the Night”

  
  Beautiful Desolation — Authority: 100
  Thought I’d better pop in with an update, let you know what I’ve been working on in my little office at the top of the stairs. Editing, mostly, with a little bit of music and sports talk radio to help ease the pain.  Aw, it hasn’t been so bad.  I’ll admit to experiencing a lot of trepidation when I decided ...
  2 weeks ago

• 600 Ruby Developers Go Startup Crawling in San Francisco

  
  Zendesk Blog — Authority: 124
  The first annual Startup Crawl in San Francisco takes place this Friday, November 20, at some of the citys hottest startups -- and Zendesk is on the tour! Some of the other companies on the Crawl include Scribd , Engine Yard , Pivotal Labs , Justin.tv , Apture , and Yammer . The event organizers are taking ...
  2 weeks ago

• FiledBy Inks Deal with Scribd

  
  Nettie Hartsock — Authority: 118
  Image via CrunchBase FiledBy has made another incredibly smart move and partnered up with Scribd. Both of these companies are truly outstanding in terms of the new revolution in publishing they are empowering. Excerpt from release - Nashville, Tenn., November 18th, 2009 – FiledBy (www.filedby.com), the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Really good read by Martin Armstrong - “How ALL systems can collapse overnight”.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Posted July 2009 http://www.scribd.com/doc/17880556/How-ALL-Systems-Can-Collapse-Overnight-709 How ALL Systems Can Collapse Overnight 7/09 Share this Post [?]            
  2 weeks ago

• Scribd to publish dissertations and theses

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Scribd has teamed up with ProQuestUMI, a publisher of dissertations and theses, to start selling over 14,000 works, form over 14 universities, in its Scribd Store. ProQuestUMI will charge $49 and sill receive 80% of the sales revenues. This is a big market as they have 2 million doctoral dissertations and master’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smashwords expands eBook business worldwide with Shortcovers deal

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Two eBook companies are creating an alliance that will help democratize eBook publishing for authors and small independent presses around the world. Smashwords and Shortcovers are teaming up to distribute eBook content in international markets.Toronto, Canada-based Shortcovers, an eReading application owned by Indigo ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6 Ways for Students to Publish Their Writing Online

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  In the course of a school year, most teachers will have students produce written content that they think should be shared with other readers. Other times teachers create writing projects with the goal of having students share their work publicly. The web offers many ways to publish written work, the following are six ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pixelpipe Widget v1.00 For Nokia S60V5

  
  Free Mobile Themes, Games, SMS, MMS, Ringtones — Authority: 124
  Pixelpipe Widget allows you upload photos or videos on 100+ media/ social sites at the click of a button.A quick overview on how you can save a ton of time by using Pixelpipe to submit your blog, photo, microblog, or video to over 100+ media/ social sites at the click of a button ! This [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Hilari

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 158
  View this document on Scribd
  2 weeks ago

• American Salafist-Jihadism Emerges

  
  Making Sense of Jihad — Authority: 449
  Despite numerous arrests, convictions , reports of recruitment activities, and general vile behavior , the United States small but very vocal Salafist-Jihadist (SJ) community saw its first inspired terrorist attack on US soil last week at Fort Hood.  Numerous British and US reports paint a picture of a man ...
  3 weeks ago

• All your eggs in one Scribd

  
  Fagstein — Authority: 502
  This blog post at the Globe and Mail is kind of funny. It started off innocent enough: the Globe wanted to embed a part of the auditor-generals report into a news article, so it posted a chapter to a website called Scribd, which converts PDFs into embeddable Flash applications. The auditor-general, however, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scribd moves to strike class allegations from copyright suit; warns of potential for horrendous, possibly annihilating punishment

  
  Copyrights & Campaigns — Authority: 549
  Scribd.com , the document storage site sued for copyright infringement by an author who alleged that her book was uploaded and displayed without her permission, has responded to the complaint, filing an answer and moving to strike the class allegations or, in the alternative, deny class certification. Motion to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do You Have a Handout for That?

  
  Thumann Resources — Authority: 105
  I recently spoke at a conference where the anticipated attendance was 16,000. There were 30 laptops set up with 60 seats and then overflow seating for another 40 people . I gave 5 presentations over 2 days. I didn’t know before I got there how many people I was going to see and now that I’m home, I still ...
  3 weeks ago

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