My Dots for Thursday, August 09, 2007

Zoho launched their new viewer product and it’s pretty simple and interesting. No account registration is necessary. You just upload a file (most office and standard document types are accepted) and then they give you a permalink you can share out as you see fit to collect feedback, etc.

It’s going to be difficult to carve into people’s habits of sending the entire file but this is a pretty slick extension to social bookmarking (wink wink nudge nudge to anyone using Blue Dot or del.icio.us). Share your permalinks out with your social network and collect feedback in a way that doesn’t have to plug up mailboxes!

One thing to keep in mind though, while the URL is randomized and not crawlable by Google, they are also not currently deletable (which I think they’re going to have to change at some point) and if anybody you share the document with posts the URL publicly on sites which DO get crawled, you could end up with much broader distribution than you intended.