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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2007

Groups Redux
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We're really excited to announce a re-launch of Scribd Groups. We've
listened to our users, and incorporated changes that makes Scribd Scribd
Groups easier to use and manage. You can now see several (skribb'd) is a free, web-based
documents at once on your group's landing page, including the most self-publishing platform and
popular and the most recent documents. document exchange community
that enables anyone to easily
Here's a overview of Groups' new look: publish, distribute, share, and
discover electronic books,
documents, presentations,
newsletters, photo albums, and
more.
Scribd provides:
1. A simple yet powerful method of
publishing and distributing your own
electronic books and documents in
a variety of formats - for free.
2. A vibrant, global community of
eager publishers, readers and
collaborators that offer great
content and constructive feedback.

3. A massive, perpetually growing

library of open, community-
generated and -published content.
4. A secure, flexible private
document managment system.
A. Group icon
B. Group name, description, and information @ Scribd
C. Groups toolbar Scribd Home
D. Main toolbar
My Stats and Analytics
E. Group features quick-launch
F. Popular documents My Documents
G. Search within group My Dashboard
H. Group members
New Publications
I. Group discussions
Popular Today
Scroll down a little to view the documents most recently added to Profiles
the group:
Top Users

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Google Earth
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Posted by Jason Bentley at 6:47 PM 0 comments ▼ October (3)
Groups Redux
Thumbnails and Previews
Thumbnails and Previews
New Scribd Flyers
Now there's an easier way to browse Scribd's massive library of
documents - thumbnails and previews! We're going through our
entire library and converting as many docs as we can to miniature ► September (9)
thumbnails, which we display along with document listings and A Better Looking FlashPaper
search results. These thumbnails make finding the right content
Search is Back!
much easier.
Scribd down for temporary
Of course, thumbnails aren't always effective, especially when you're maintenance
dealing with lots of text. Well now, you can preview documents Scribd documents are
without having to access the View Document page. Click the Preview unaffected by PDF security
button to display the document in a temporary viewer! vu...
Aggregated Stats
Let's take a look at the information you'll find in a document entry:
Temporarily Disabled
Uncap Notifications
Scribd Unveils New Instant-
Conversion Features
It's no fun at the D-M-C-A
Scribd's Official Reponse to
the Science Fiction a...

A. Document thumbnail.
B. File type icon ► August (15)
C. Document title Unsupported Formats
D. Time since upload Leave Group enabled
E. Description
STATUS: Conversions taking
F. Number of pages in document
longer than usual
G. Preview link. Click here to view the document in a preview pane.
H. Document uploder (with avatar) Scribd Groups is Go!
I. Number of views Raised Voices
J. Number of likes
STATUS: Scribd Down for
K. Number of comments
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L. Tags
Assay You, Assay Me
Posted by Jason Bentley at 4:56 PM 0 comments
Let's Get Physical
Labels: previews, thumbnails
We Got The Beat!
Add Scribd to Your Browser
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2007
Search Bar
New Scribd Flyers Blog Love
Scribd-à-Porter
Here's the first in a series of flyers designed to help make new users Scribd-à-Porter
aware of Scribd. Feel free to embed them in your blog or website. :- Is That You, Damien?
)
Slurp in Private
New Faces, New Features

► July (23)
Dragosta Din Tei
Hooked on Classics
The Geheimschreiber
Secret
Medicinal Purposes
Collections Are Back!
Scribd Back in Effect
Scribd on the iPhone
STATUS: Scribd in
Maintenance Mode
Dinner is Served
For Those About To Rock...
Apple Tree
Where Are Collections?
Photos of Africa
STATUS: Scribd Down for
Major Upgrade until
Approx...
Star Pomp
STATUS: Document
Posted by Jason Bentley at 4:22 PM 1 comments Conversions Temporarily
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

Maps and Legends
Calling All Campaigns!
A Better Looking FlashPaper
Entitled
A few of our regular users have written to point out some of the
Old School
obvious flaws with FlashPaper, the technology we use to display and
embed documents in web pages. One of the more common complaint The Pronunciation Problem
is, "My document looks like crap!" Well, most documents don't look Welcome to the Scribd Blog
like crap...FlashPaper just thinks it does and needs to be told it
doesn't. I'll explain.
► June (1)
But first, I think this is as good a time as any to announce that we've
had to tell FlashPaper that our relationship is strong enough for ► May (3)
Scribd to start exploring other technologies. Back in the lab, our
engineers are hard at work on a new viewer that's smoother, has ► March (4)
more and better features, and is built from scratch with the
suggestions and requests of our users in mind. I'll say no more for ► February (1)
now...

except to tell you how to improve your view of documents in the ► 2006 (1)
meantime. On some browsers, FlashPaper displays documents in low ► November (1)
quality, but thinks it's displaying in high quality. For example, Dan
Rather's lawsuit against CBS doesn't look too good at first glance:
...of course I mean that aesthetically, not legally. :-)

If text or images looks blocky, degraded, or unclear, simply right-

click on the FlashPaper surface, and select High from the Quality
menu. It will already be checked, but click it again. Trust me.

Like magic, the text will appear much clearer and more readable:

It's only a band-aid, but one that'll make your experience a bit
better as we perfect a better-looking Flash paper.

Posted by Jason Bentley at 11:49 PM 2 comments

Labels: hack, workaround
 Search is Back!
Hey, everyone! Great news! Scribd search is back, faster and more
accurate than before! We're still tuning it, so it'll get even better as
time goes on.

I know that it's frustrating when we temporarily disable features. It's

frustrating for all of us, too. But we hope you'll agree that the
results are an improvement - and that we keep our promises. :-) And
while we regrettably can't fulfill every request, we always welcome
your feedback and suggestions.

Posted by Jason Bentley at 11:26 PM 0 comments

Labels: search

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Scribd down for temporary maintenance

Scribd is down from 1PM Pacific Time for maintenance. We apologize
for any inconvenience.

Posted by Jason Bentley at 1:06 PM 1 comments

Labels: status

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Scribd documents are unaffected by PDF security

vulnerability
No doubt many of you have heard of the potential Adobe PDF
security vulnerability for users of Windows XP. Scribd PDF documents
are converted to FlashPaper, which is not affected by the
vulnerability. Users of Windows XP and all other operating systems
can read and embed Scribd documents without concern of infection
or compromise. Windows XP users should use caution when
downloading and viewing PDFs locally until Adobe releases updated
information about the situation.

More about the issue: http://mashable.com/2007/09/21/adobe-vulnerability/

Posted by Jason Bentley at 9:32 PM 0 comments

Labels: acrobat, adobe, security, xp

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