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by jashkenas
5618 days ago
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Fortunately, DocumentCloud has a very different mission than Scribd, and isn't competing with them in any meaningful way. Scribd is a "YouTube for documents", where anyone can upload and share docs, with all the requisite advertising that entails. We're a nonprofit organization funded by the Knight Foundation to help make primary source documents accessible. Upload access to DocumentCloud is restricted to journalists -- the current list of contributors can be found here: http://www.documentcloud.org/contributors As to the Document Viewer, which is probably what you're talking about (the equivalent of Scribd's embedded viewer), it's funny that you mention the Times, because it's their project. Alan McLean, at the Interactive News desk, created the document viewer for nytimes.com, and they make extensive use of it there (apart from Dealbook). It's also an HTML5 viewer, not a Flash viewer. http://documents.nytimes.com/court-battle-over-rahm-emanuels... http://www.documentcloud.org/#search/group%3A%20nytimes PS. The design is thanks to the very talented Folkert Gorter (superfamous.com) |
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