June 15, 2009
Posted by Erik Larson at 12:01 AM
Today we take a big step towards realizing our vision of a new way to work on Acrobat.com.
Today we end the public beta for Acrobat.com. We launch Acrobat.com Premium subscriptions for more intensive business use (yes, the free version of the service is still available, and still free :-). And we give a look into the future of Acrobat.com for the coming year, starting with the unveiling of our spreadsheet product, Acrobat.com Tables, on our Labs website. Lots of news! Oh, plus two weeks ago we released Acrobat.com Presentations.
We're busy because our customers are busy.
Continue reading "Hello (Business) World - Welcome to a New Way to Work" »
April 10, 2009
Posted by Julien Levadoux at 3:44 PM
NEW FEATURES IN CONNECTNOW
We receive a lot of good suggestions for new features from our users on a daily basis through our ideas web site & our forum, and it's always very exciting when we get a chance to implement one of those ideas.
This week, we released a new version of ConnectNow and we were able to make the following two new features available to all of you:
Application / Window Screen Sharing
Requests for this feature from our users: Link to the idea on our ideas site & Link 1, Link2, Link3, Link4 on our forum.
Continue reading "Feedback Matters: New Features in ConnectNow" »
March 23, 2009
Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 6:19 AM
From wikipedia:
"The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations ... is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group."
The Acrobat.com Ideas site (http://ideas.acrobat.com) is available now for YOUR ideas, your comments and, very importantly, your VOTES. This is an experiment for us: a new way of gathering ideas, getting feedback on the ideas, and letting you tell us which are the ideas most important to you. Will this be effective? Inspirational? Yes. Absolutely. Please help us explore by adding your ideas. And vote early and often.
Continue reading "The Wisdom of Crowds" »
March 11, 2009
Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 11:31 AM
The Latest Release of Buzzword - Check It Out!
The Buzzword team is excited about our latest release. There are some terrific new features that many of you have requested - seeing the differences between versions of a document, justified text, and the ability to export to EPUB, for eBook publishing to devices like the iPhone with Stanza, Sony Reader and Adobe Digital Editions! And for our Macintosh users, there's support for Safari 4 (beta.) Read more about this release via a Buzzword Open Access document. There's no need to sign in to Buzzword (or even to have an account, for that matter) to read the document. So, feel free to pass the link along to colleagues and friends.
Continue reading "What's the Diff?" »
February 16, 2009
Posted by Karen Tomlinson at 5:53 PM
Screen sharing is one of the most, if not the most, important features of online meetings and something we continue to improve upon. We are excited to share with you the following ConnectNow screen sharing enhancements we've made based on your feedback.
Faster Screen Sharing. Some of you told us you were experiencing screen sharing delays when sharing with lower bandwidth or slow Internet connections. To improve the performance of screen sharing in these circumstances, we tuned our screen sharing algorithm so it transmits data more efficiently. The first time you enter your meeting room you will be asked to download the new add-in with improved screen sharing. You now have the option to optimize screen sharing for faster performance or for higher quality, with the default set to faster performance. You can change your screen sharing setting to higher quality by going to the meeting menu, selecting preferences, then screen share, then enable "high fidelity".
Continue reading "Faster, Better Screen Sharing - ConnectNow!" »
December 7, 2008
Posted by Lisa Underkoffler at 4:30 PM
The Buzzword team updated our servers today with our 14th release. And, the theme of this version is Easier Document Sharing.
We get a lot of feedback from our users, and at the top of the list has been the request to make our document sharing easier, and more public. So we've tackled both problems. Now it's not only easier to share documents with teams but also publish to the whole world.
Here's a sample (this blog entry) as a Buzzword open access document.
Continue reading "14 and Counting - New Release! New Stuff!" »
July 15, 2008
Posted by Tad Staley at 11:18 AM
The Buzzword team has delivered again - a mere six weeks after our last version, which appeared as part of the Acrobat.com launch in early June. We're very excited to be back in regular release cycles, and we have lots of great features planned (see Lisa's recent blog post for specifics).
This new release (our 10th in 14 months) has a few very important new capabilities, designed to broaden our appeal globally and to make it even easier to share documents.
Continue reading "Another Buzzword Version Launched" »
July 14, 2008
Posted by Mangesh Bhandarkar at 8:00 AM
Last week Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Reader 9. This new version of Reader has several exciting new features and capabilities. Steve Gottwals, product manager for Adobe Reader, did an extensive review of the new features of Reader 9 in his blog entry. From the Adobe website you can download a copy of Adobe Reader 9.0 now.
Adobe Reader 9 provides many simple ways to work with Acrobat.com. It includes the Acrobat.com desktop application built on the Adobe AIR technology. The Acrobat.com desktop application provides an easy way of interacting with Acrobat.com by dragging and dropping files and folders from your local computer directly into your Acrobat.com account, and browsing, previewing, sharing or publishing files directly from your desktop computer. The application can be minimized to a widget on your desktop providing one-click access to the Acrobat.com services.
Continue reading "Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat.com" »
June 1, 2008
Posted by Erik Larson at 9:01 PM
We are incredibly excited about the path we've started down with today's beta launch of Acrobat.com. Our goal for the next few years is big but simple: we want to change the way the world works together on documents, for the better. We’ll keep you up to date on our thoughts and progress through frequent (and usually shorter ;-) postings to this blog.
Acrobat.com is a suite of online services hosted by Adobe that you can use to create documents together and share them with others. It helps people get document work done faster, without email attachments or version confusion, and it makes your documents look great so that you and your work look great, too.
We are starting with three distinctive applications:
- Adobe Buzzword for creating and reviewing documents together.
- Adobe ConnectNow for holding full-fledged online web conferences with up to three people.
- The Acrobat.com organizer for sharing 5GB of files with others online, including the ability to convert 5 documents to PDF and embed your documents in blogs, wikis or other web pages.
Please give them a try, get more efficient, and let us know what you think. You can sign up for free at www.acrobat.com.
Read on to learn more about our vision...
Continue reading "Work Together with Acrobat.com" »
April 23, 2008
Posted by Tad Staley at 10:40 AM
Early this morning the Buzzword team successfully migrated to a new hosting service. Although we hope and expect that the migration was invisible to all Buzzword users, you might have noticed a few changes.
First, we’ve moved to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), a more secure protocol for communicating between your computer and our server. The only visible sign of this change is that our web address now begins with https, instead of plain old http.
Continue reading "A Modest Update" »
January 28, 2008
Posted by Tad Staley at 1:21 PM
It’s been a while since this blog has been graced with new content, but it doesn’t mean we’ve been off duty. The Buzzword team is plowing ahead with new functionality - some features just released in our latest version, which will be discussed below. We’re also working on some longer term functionality that will roll out over the course of the next several releases.
By the way, this is officially our seventh “Preview” release in nine months, so we’re staying on track for a release every 6 weeks or so. This is also our first official Adobe release - we’re looking forward to many more!
Continue reading "Preview 7 Unleashed" »
December 14, 2007
Posted by Karen Tomlinson at 6:18 PM
Hi, I’m Karen, also known as KT, the product manager for Brio.
Last week we launched a preview of the next generation of Adobe Acrobat Connect, codenamed "Brio.” Brio is web conferencing solution built with collaboration in mind. Whether it is ad-hoc collaboration with remote colleagues, a weekly team meeting, or a sales call, Brio gives you the tools you need to work together as if you were in the same room. And because Brio is built on Adobe's Flash platform, it operates inside most popular web browsers and operating systems. 'Nuff said. If you haven’t checked it out yet, give it a spin!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I want to thank all the people who have already signed up and provided feedback. It’s great to finally have the product available to the public and hear what you think! Please continue to use the product…and don’t forget to provide feedback and report bugs in the forums or by email at brio_beta@adobe.com.
Here’s what others are saying….
Robin Good says, "Kudos to Adobe for finally introducing a truly approachable SOHO solution...[which] not only integrates VoIP and teleconferencing facilities in Brio, but makes both of them free and accessible also from major European countries including the UK, Germany, France and more."
Luca Mezzalira says, “It’s more easy to use, main functions are available like icons and it’s so fast! ...you have a 'widget' to chat with others users, you can see other users...and you have a little control panel to manage [your room].Very cool!"
And if you are a developer you might be interested to know that Brio is built on the web services platform codenamed Cocomo. If you are interested in learning more about Cocomo, check out the Collaborative Methods blog.
Happy Holidays!
November 28, 2007
Posted by Tad Staley at 1:18 PM
Things are moving apace in the world of Buzzword. First, it’s worth noting that we have a new domain name. Buzzword is now on its namesake domain - www.buzzword.com. Please update your bookmark, if you’ve set one.
In fact, you may have arrived at our old blog URL, but this blog can also be accessed via http://blog.buzzword.com. We have also moved our old company site, www.virtub.com, to http://about.buzzword.com.
And, as of yesterday morning, Buzzword itself has been updated. This is our sixth release in as many months; this latest version consists of a set of features almost exclusively requested by users - including word count, hyperlinks, and support for special characters.
Continue reading "Buzzword Preview Version 6" »
September 20, 2007
Posted by Tad Staley at 7:17 AM
We’re happy to report that our latest version, Preview 5, is now online. This version has lots of improvements, many of which aren’t immediately obvious - essentially, tightening things up to get us closer to a true version 1.0 word processor. Here’s a quick look at some of the visible changes in Preview 5.
Continue reading "Buzzword Preview 5 is Live!" »