Scribd.com lets you post documents and then, like other social network sites, lets others comment on them or embed them elsewhere. Most of the documents seem to be silly like a Girlfriend Application, but the system has some neat features. It presents the documents as PDFs with a custom viewer. It has a text to speech synthesizer that reads the document out and basic statistics about the doucment. It seems heavily influenced by Flickr.
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I was not blown away by what I saw after playing around with the site. I found the viewer able to offer a rich experience, but performance was rather sluggish and awkward. I am also a little confused about exactly how much original content would be shared. However, TechCrunch seems to be pretty bullish on it a week after their first review and is touting rather impressive engagement with actual users.