Share Beta

Adobe needs your feedback

2008-04-11T18:05:35Z

Thank you for trying out our Adobe Share beta service. We are committed to building products and technologies that will make people work better together. From time to time, we conduct live interviews to better understand your workflows and needs. We are currently recruiting for such research and we would greatly appreciate your participation!

Here are the details:
- Where: Adobe’s San Francisco office for local participants or via phone/internet for remote participants
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Format: 1:1 interviews with our researcher
- If selected to participate, you will receive a $100 gift certificate for Amazon as a token of our appreciation.

If you are interested in participating, please click this link and fill out our screener: http://www.adobe.com/go/hsscreener.
If you are selected, we will contact you by phone or email.

Thank you for your interest!
Adobe User Research

Creating PDFs, Previewing Office Files and many more new features...

2008-03-25T22:37:56Z

It has been a really long time since we last spoke to you. The Share team has been busy adding new features and improving performance of Share Beta. And today we released a new version of Share with a whole host of new features.

The first thing you will notice when you login to the Share Beta service is the new button bar at the top.

We have eliminated the Home tab which was in the previous version of the service to give more focus to your documents in the Share library. The three buttons are the primary tasks supported by the Share service: Uploading files, Sharing files and Converting Files to PDFs. Yes, creating PDFs!ﾠ

Now you can convert documents to Adobe PDF using Share! Adobe PDF is the de facto standard for more secure, dependable electronic information exchange — recognized by industries and governments around the world. By converting your files to Adobe PDF you can ensure that recipients will be able to view your files regardless of platform and application availability. To convert a file to PDF simply select the file from your desktop or by dragging-and-dropping a file already in your Share library.

Once the PDF conversion is completed you can directly Share the converted file or copy the URL or copy the embed code for the file. Share supports converting to PDF all the popular formats including: Microsoft Office files, Open Office files, text files, images and postscript files.

]]> Based on user feedback we have also added an Upload Files task which allows you to simply pick one or more files from your desktop and upload them to Share.

You can use this task to store a file on Share and then share it with others either by emailing the URL directly or embedding the file on your website, blog or a wiki page using the embed code. Share automatically generates a thumbnail and a Flash preview for all stored files to provide a rich browser-based viewing experience for your files. With this new release, in addition to PDF and image files (which were already supported in the earlier version), you will be able to view Microsoft Office files, Open Office files through the web browser without having to first download them.

The Share Files task should look familiar but has a couple of interesting enhancements.

We have added the ability to customize the subject of the Share emails when notifying recipients regarding shared files. When choosing recipients for sharing files, the system will match against your contact list as you type and auto-complete the email addresses for you making it easier to share files.

This new release of Share enhances the ability to embed documents into external website by enabling embedding of Office documents. The embedded view also contains a full screen toggle which allows users to view the embedded document in the full screen mode and provides a much richer viewing experience.

One additional feature worth mentioning, search now searches through the contents of your entire file library including files that other have shared with you so that you can quickly find the file you are looking for.

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Let us know what you think about this new release and please send us feedback about other enhancements you would like to see in Share at share_beta at adobe.com.

Long time no see...

2008-03-14T00:00:20Z

SHARE's blog has been remarkably quiet lately. Too quiet. The good news is that more news is coming, finally. Please stay tuned...

Sign up to participate in a user study...get $100

2007-12-03T22:45:34Z

[UPDATE: this user study is over. Please don't call anymore :-) ]

We are looking for people to participate in a user research study on Thursday, December 6 and Monday, December 10 at our facilities in San Jose.

The study will take approximately 1 hour, and compensation will be $100.

Thank you!

Thank you for waiting

2007-10-25T19:27:34Z

The waits over and we are sharing more! We have started sending out invites to join the service, by sharing files through the Share :-)...off course. Everyone who added their email address to our waiting list should receive an invite by the end of this week. General sign-up for Share will be opened up next week.

Enjoy Share and continue to give us your feedback about the service.

Share Beta Updated

2007-10-25T16:53:47Z

It has been a couple of weeks since we last spoke to you. Thank you all for using the service and providing valuable feedback. Since the last time, we have updated the Share Beta service with a few enhancements and bug fixes. In particular the embedded previewer now allows embedding of image files (including jpeg, gif, png) on websites, wikis or blogs.

In addition we are also adding a full page toggle mode for the embedded previewer and other UI controls like zoom-in and scroll based on your feedback. These are particularly important when reading embedded documents.

A couple of features that the team is working on are:

Adding the ability to convert documents to PDF (including Microsoft Office files, ODF, etc.)
Easily searching and finding documents using the document properties and content.

More on these and additional features later...

Enjoy Share..

Sharing from your iPhone?

2007-10-10T01:39:45Z

Shahram Javey, engineering manager for the Share team here at Adobe, built a very cool service using the Share REST APIs. The service allows accessing your Share Library, viewing documents and sharing documents all from your iPhone. Check it out at http://web.sharepdf.com. He talks about this in his blog.

This is really exciting and highlights the extensibility of the service. Shahram was able to take the vanilla Share APIs and build a prototype using these APIs in a just a couple of days. This is exactly the types of scenarios we have envisioned in opening up the service for use by developers and third parties service providers.

What a week this has been...

2007-10-09T21:42:12Z

It was last Tuesday (Oct 2nd) that we unveiled the Share service at the keynote address at MAX. Wow! What a busy past week it was, we got a lot of great coverage in the press and the blogosphere. Want to thank everyone who have started using Share, sent us feedback on enhancements they would like to see in the service. Also special thanks to those who have expressed an interest in getting an account on Share, we will be sending out additional invites soon.

]]> For those who missed the keynote presentation at MAX below are the slides, shared using the Share beta service...off course.

For those interested in using Share REST APIs and building your own apps, there is a lot of really good information on the Adobe Labs and the Collaborative Methods blogs.

Never Mind…I found that document you shared

2007-09-28T05:56:50Z

Ever search for an email attachment with little success? Work on a document only to find out it wasn't the latest version? Couldn't send a file by email because the size of the file was too large? We all have these challenges too...We need an easy and simple way to share important documents internally and externally.

]]> By way of introductions, we are a team at Adobe tasked with building solutions to simplify document collaboration. We are pretty excited to announce the beta of our service for sharing, managing and organizing your important document; internally codenamed “Share”. You can check out the service at http://share.adobe.com. In the next weeks and months we will be sharing a lot more with you.

If you are attending MAX 2007 in Chicago, come watch the demo of the Share beta service during Kevin Lynch’s keynote on day 2 of MAX (Chicago, October 2, 10:30AM-12:00PM Central). Other sessions you might be interested in to learn more about our plans:

Collaborative Hosted Services Roadmap
Monday, October 1, 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Erik Larson

Adobe Hosted Services: Web APIs and Mashups
Monday, October 1, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Patrick Rodriguez, Nigel Pegg
Tuesday, October 2, 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Patrick Rodriguez, Nigel Pegg