Adobe Share - Access and share files and documents online

Posted on January 7, 2008 at 7:17 am

It seems like everyone and their grandmother is coming out with some kind of online Office or online document management suite these days! Just today, I wrote about the new Microsoft Office Live Workspace service that allows users to store and share Office documents online.

Before that, I wrote about a cool web service called DocSyncer which takes all of the documents on your computer, stores them online for free and allows you to open them online using Google docs!

And before that I wrote about another free online word processor, this time from Adobe, which has a stellar interface and some really cool features called Adobe Buzzword.

Adobe seems to be on some kind of web service developing spree as they now have another web service called Adobe Share, which is a web-based service that allows you to upload and share files. Note that I said “upload and share” only. Adobe Share does not include any other features, such as creating new or editing documents and does not even include collaboration.

However, do not count Adobe out because they are working on eventually integrating multiple services together into a major online package. Adobe Buzzword is their online word processor and they also are developing other really cool tools like Adobe Brio, which is their next-generation web meeting tool for small collaborative meetings and Adobe JamJar, which is web application to plan events, exchange ideas, manage projects, or share files and images.

Now back to Adobe Share and what other features it includes. Here’s a basic run through of what you can do with Adobe Share:

Upload, backup, and share documents online.
Access your files from anywhere and download them at any time
Share your documents in two ways: either publicly with a specific URL that people can visit or via email to only a select few
Embed your documents on your blog or website

Adobe Share supports a good number of file formats, including Office 2003, Office 2007, Rich Text Format (RTF), Open Office format, PDFs, text documents, HTML, image formats (GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP), SWF, ZIP, etc.

It looks as though the beta version is allowing users up to 1GB of free space. There doesn’t seem to be any way to increase that limit as of now. On the right side you can view documents from others, that are shared out, etc.

With so many options popping up for storing Office documents online, it’s starting to get confusing what to choose. I would say that since Adobe Share and Office Live Workspace are both in beta at this point, it’s best to use something like DocSyncer and Google Docs to store and view documents online. Source ReadWriteWeb

Anyone else using any of these services? Which ones do you like best? Enjoy!

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3 Responses to “Adobe Share - Access and share files and documents online”

Ronny said on : January 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

Have u seen http://www.live-documents.com or http://live.instacoll.com

They seem to be doing something similar.

akishore said on : January 8th, 2008 at 12:51 am

Yes I’ve been keeping up to date with Live Documents also. They are still in beta, so that’s why I have not written about it yet. It looks very exciting though if they can re-create Office 2007 on the web!

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