Comments for 1000 Docstoc Invites for Read/WriteWeb Readers

1000 Docstoc Invites for Read/WriteWeb Readers

2007-10-05T18:25:31Z

Docstoc, which demoed at the TechCrunch40 last month, is offering 1000 private beta invites to Read/WriteWeb readers. Docstoc is aiming to be the YouTube or Flickr of professional documents, by allowing users to upload and share (via an embeddable flash widget) professional documents.

Docstoc has been in private beta and approaching official launch, but they were kind enough to give 1000 Read/WriteWeb readers a chance to preview the service early. Just navigate to http://docstoc.com/User/register.aspx and enter "RWW" (without the quotes) as the invite code to claim your invite. These are released on a first come, first serve basis.

A video introducing Docstoc to Read/WriteWeb readers (you!) is embedded below.

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Remember, go to http://docstoc.com/User/register.aspx and enter "RWW" (without the quotes) as the invite code to check out Docstoc. Let us know what you think of it.

Comment from doc on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T19:24:39Z

Bad site: when ActiveX is disabled, you can not even log in ...

Comment from Andy on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T20:23:45Z

Can anyone say "Read/Write Web readers" without stumbling? I can't!

Comment from Jason Nazar on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T21:16:51Z

Andy, it took me 5 takes for me to get "read write web" out without sounding like a total idiot, and the jury is prob still out on that...

Comment from lenina on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T21:40:22Z

I've just signed up and I am appalled at some of the content on there. Under creative/writing, for example, is the following (by user iamgod):

"The way to a woman‚Äôs heart is through her broken ribs.

Forget roses. Forget expensive boxes of candy. Forget moonlit walks along the beach. Forget every piece of advice you‚Äôve heard on The View.

If you want to impress a woman, think black eyes, fat lips, broken noses, and romantic evenings in the emergency room. On the way to hospital, open the lines of communication by deciding if the little lady should claim that she fell down the stairs or off her bike.

Don‚Äôt listen to women who say they crave caring, touchy-feely men. Women only want a sensitive man until a real man walks through the door‚Ä¶.

If Mr. Nice Guy reaches his breaking point after walking in on his girlfriend getting nailed by a USP driver, his ass will be in jail before the cum-stained sheets dry. Tenderizing the cunt‚Äôs face might be right, but it‚Äôs not legal."

Thankfully they have an 'flag as inappropriate' link. I hope this document will be removed.

Comment from Chris on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T21:58:09Z

It seems to be like Scribd, but it doesn't work with Blogger.com, the embed codes doesn't work.

Comment from Alon on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T22:24:01Z

Doc,

The ActiveX control we are using is Flash, which is required in order to have the best usability of the site. From that standpoint, we are no different than many others sites such as YouTube.

That said, you can still navigate the site, upload and download all content, you will simply not be able to preview the documents.

Alon

Comment from Sameera on 2007-10-05

2007-10-06T01:50:17Z

The registration form is poorly done. I mistyped the password on the first password text box and hit tab. Then I wanted to go back to the password box to fix it. But it wouldn't let me. The validaton on retype-password box is set to reset focus to the retype-textbox when the passwords don't match. That's just wrong. I had to refresh the page and everything again to fix the password.

Comment from John on 2007-10-10

2007-10-10T23:43:08Z

very cool site, I'll definitely be using this