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Scribd (pronounced ) is a Web 2.0 based document-sharing website which allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format. Scribd was founded by Trip Adler in 2006
  1. 3 hours ago — This is a part of a post from author Lynn Viehl’s Paperback Writer blog. . It deserves to be read in full, but I must point out that I can’t verify anything that it contains: It’s been brought to my attention that...

  2. August 31, 2010 — It's been brought to my attention that Scribd.com has begun charging people to download my free e-books hosted on their site. To get around my copyright and the free distribution notice I've placed in each e-book, they are...

  3. in Technology by Sunlight Foundation with a VERY BAD
    Overall mood: VERY BAD! Postitive adjectives found in the text: important. Negative adjectives found in the text: prohibitive, archaic, unusable. Our semantic analysis measures the mood of a post and the author's perspective on a specific topic by analyzing the adjectives present in a text and weighing them appropriately. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how something is being talked about and does not imply a negative or positive judgment. For example, if something unpleasant happens to a celebrity the Sentiment for that post will probably be 'Very bad', but this does not imply that the author has a negative opinion of the person.
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    August 26, 2010 — We’re big fans of Scribd here at Sunlight. For a while now, we’ve been posting transparency related documents to the platform while leveraging their widgets to embed congressional fund...

  4. August 26, 2010 — Social publishing site Scribd is considering a number of premium products as an additional revenue stream to its ad sales and year-and-a-half-old book and document store, sources tell paidContent. A rep for the the San...

  5. August 09, 2010 — Last week I read the post below from Writer’s Digest, and it motivated me to check out Scribd. Marketing/promoting my work and my writing is probably the most difficult aspect of my writing life, almost as difficult as...

  1. August 04, 2010 — Scribd just emailed us to let us know that today’s California Proposition 8 ruling, which was delivered at about 1:45 p.m. PT today, is the most viral document in the history of the site ....

  2. August 04, 2010 — Who says no one wants to read the full decision? TechCrunch : The final ruling was leaked to Scribd and received over 50,000 hits “in a matter of minutes” according to Scribd Senior Director of...

  3. August 04, 2010 — One of the hardest things about becoming a successful writer is getting your work read. Scribd.com is making that part easy. For those of you not familiar with the site, here’s an excerpt off...

  4. by Perverse Egalitarianism with a BAD
    Overall mood: BAD! Postitive adjectives found in the text: extraordinary, happy, rich. Negative adjectives found in the text: stale, disagreeable, ignorant. Most frequent adjectives: poor. Our semantic analysis measures the mood of a post and the author's perspective on a specific topic by analyzing the adjectives present in a text and weighing them appropriately. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how something is being talked about and does not imply a negative or positive judgment. For example, if something unpleasant happens to a celebrity the Sentiment for that post will probably be 'Very bad', but this does not imply that the author has a negative opinion of the person.
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    August 24, 2010 — I found The Madness of the Day (trans. Lydia Davis) on scribd: I am not learned; I am not ignorant. I have known joys. That is saying too little: I am alive, and this life gives me the greatest pleasure. And what about...

  5. in Arts by GalleyCat

    July 26, 2010 — After her husband died at 29-years-old, Hyla Molander began writing a memoir about the heartbreaking experience. Flustered by her search for an agent, she turned to the online writing community at...

  6. July 21, 2010 — natehoy writes "Apparently, monitoring for copyright violations is not in itself a copyright violation, lawyers for Elaine Scott decided. As a result, they have dropped the lawsuit against Scribd, who was being...

  7. July 20, 2010 — Self-publishing supersite Scribd is off the hook for copyright infringement , at least in one case, after a lawsuit against it was either settled or abandoned (depending on who you believe). The lawsuit in question charged...

  8. July 20, 2010 — Oh, the game of musical chairs in the digital sector never seems to stop. Here’s today’s Silicon Valley roundelay: Rob Macdonald (pictured here), head of traditional media and publisher partnerships at...

  9. July 20, 2010 — Oh, the game of musical chairs in the digital sector never seems to stop. Here’s today’s Silicon Valley roundelay: Rob Macdonald (pictured here), head of traditional media and publisher partnerships at...

  10. in News by Techdirt with a BAD
    Overall mood: BAD! Postitive adjectives found in the text: willing. Negative adjectives found in the text: ridiculous, odd. Most frequent adjectives: illegal, damned. Our semantic analysis measures the mood of a post and the author's perspective on a specific topic by analyzing the adjectives present in a text and weighing them appropriately. The purpose of this analysis is to understand how something is being talked about and does not imply a negative or positive judgment. For example, if something unpleasant happens to a celebrity the Sentiment for that post will probably be 'Very bad', but this does not imply that the author has a negative opinion of the person.
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    July 19, 2010 — Last year, we wrote about the somewhat bizarre class action lawsuit filed against Scribd for copyright infringement. It was bizarre on multiple levels. First, the lawyers filing the lawsuit against...

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