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Scribd Raises Venture Financing Although this happened a while ago, we figured we should at least mention our venture round at some point in the Scribd blog – it is pretty big news for Scribd! You can read about this on TechCrunch here, which is the first place the news was covered correctly. Scribd raised $3.5 million from Redpoint Ventures as well as $210,000 from the Kinsey Hills Group. Alon...

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What People Are Uploading to Scribd Scribd has gotten almost every kind of document imaginable. While everything is PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenOffice, or some other document format, there is such a variety of content that it’s hard to summarize it all in a quick list. We would like to quickly point out some of the cool content that people have uploaded. A lot of people have published int...

Scribd Congratulates Bill Allin! We want to use this blog post to quickly congratulate writer and long-time Scribd user Bill Allin. Recently his essay, Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy became one of the most popular documents on Scribd, receiving (as of now) 197,045 views and 1,750 likes. This extreme popularity was in part due to the huge number of links to his essay from all over the...

We've added private documents, community flagging, and a new custom embedding page.

The purpose of this blog entry is to thank the thousands of people who have blogged about Scribd in the last week.

Scribd has launched!

Scribd’s Beta Testers Scribd is planning to officially launch very soon. Although we have been saying this for a while, this time we think we mean it. We plan to get a lot of new users when we launch, but before this happens, we want to thank all of our current users. You have all been a great group of beta testers who have allowed us to come a long way in developing this site. We would like to...

Scribd Features Scribd has a lot of features. Most of them are pretty apparent, but we want to point out a few that you might have overlooked: • • • • • • • • Our embeddable PDF player. Scribd documents can easily be embedded in other webpages, such as your blog or Myspace profile. Just copy and paste the embed code on the right side of each document. High quality conversions. We convert am...