To celebrate our launch we’re giving Away an iPod Touch to the User that Uploads the Most Amount of Professional Documents Each Week.
Docstoc.com is out of private beta, and we want you to upload your professional documents and share them with the world. We’re giving away an iPod Touch each week to the user who uploads the most documents. The contest starts Tuesday, October 30, 2007, and goes through Midnight PST each Sunday night in the month of November
Docstoc officially came out of private beta on Tuesday October 30th. The site went live with over 7000 users and 12,000 documents.
Docstoc Press Release
Take a look at the new docstoc video tour
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Watch Ben Gleib, star of NBC’s The Real Wedding Crashers, and one of the top stand up comedians in the country, spread the gospel of docstoc through viral videos.
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As reported in VentureBeat, docstoc closed its Series A round of financing.
Among those participating were Scott Walchek, of Integrity Partners; Brett Brewer, of Intermix, which was the parent company of MySpace before it was sold to News Corp.; Robin Richards, founding president of MP3.com; and Rick Smith, former managing director at Palomar ventures.
Check out the new docstoc logo
Thank you for all the requests for invitations to our private beta. We temporarily put a hold on sending out more invites while we have been adding new features and updating the UI.
We are integrating a new beta invitation system that will allow users to share invitations with their friends. The new beta invitation system will be up and running next week. And we will email everyone back who has requested access to the site.
The demand to the private beta has been huge, so not everyone who has requested access may get an invite on the first go around. But stay tuned as docstoc is set to launch to soon.
Thank you for all your patience and support!
Michael Arrington:“I’ve been hearing good things about new startup Docstoc, which is currently in private beta. I haven’t been able to get in and see the service, but others that have are telling me its pretty cool”
To view the full article and read all the comments in TechCrunch Click Here
Docstoc is up in private beta. We will still be making a number of changes and improvments to the site. If you would like to request a password to be one of our first beta members please email info@docstoc.com and let us know who you are.
We’re planning on launching docstoc very soon. In the meantime take a moment to watch the video tour of the site. The demo of the site in the video is an older version. We’ve since made many redesigns and improvments to the technology. But it gives a fair overview of the site, and should leave you wanting more good things to come.
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Docstsoc allows users to find and share any document. It provides a:
(1) Vast Quantity
(2) High Quality
(3) Easily Accessible
(4) Relevant Documents and Templates
(5) For Free
(6) In a Social Networking Platform to encourage communication between users
Users can:
* keyword search by meta-tags or through 3 levels of categories
* filter by downloads, rating, comments, language, or file type
* upload, search, rate and visit blogs
* create and view profiles of other docsters, and see all their docs
* make docstoc friends based on common interests
* can’t find what you’re looking for?… Request a Doc
* see how you rate among all the “top docsters�
* embedded codes to post your docs on myspace and blogs
* lots of online file storage
* find out how the community rates your docs
Documents are uploaded by the users. Docstoc does not crawl the web for documents. Users add their content to the system, and Docstoc hosts the documents. When content is uploaded, users 1) categorize, 2) tag, and 3) describe their document so that it can easily be found by other users.
In addition users can use bulk upload features where they have the option to 1) drag and drop multiple files or folders into Docstoc or 2) “email upload� by emailing their documents into Docstoc.
Users can search by keywords or by categories. The keyword search bar can be accessed from each page on the site. Keyword submissions search for both the titles of documents and their associated tags. Tags are descriptive words and phrases that users attached to docs.
The Categorical Search is three levels deep. The first level has six primary categories: legal, business, financial, educational, creative and stuff. Each of those categories has 10 sub categories and each of the sub categories has 10 “sub-sub� categories: providing for 600 different categorizations of documents.
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