A assemblage and a half after launching at our prototypal TechCrunch40 conference, document-sharing assist Docstoc is attractive soured its “beta” adjudge with a homepage redesign, unstoppered APIs, and a newborn revenue-sharing support titled DocCash. The assist is ontogeny at a flourishing clip, with 3 meg documents uploaded and 1.6 meg unequalled visitors a period in the U.S., according to comScore. (The company’s interior Google Analytics shows 4.8 meg unequalled visitors worldwide).

DocStoc is ease much small than its competition Scribd, but hopes to grownup up with whatever of its changes (as does Issuu, added document-sharing assist that keeps adding features). In visit to encourage more state and higher-quality writing uploads, DocStoc is introducing DocCash. The consort module be splitting AdSense revenues 50/50 with anyone who uploads documents and wants to opt into the service. Right today the ads exclusive materialize on Docstoc pages, but module yet earmark Flash ads in DocStoc’s embedded Flash contestant as well. (See recording tutorial below).

DocStoc is also unveiling a newborn homepage with a much more blog-like feel. Featured documents a module be designated by an article team, more images module be highlighted, and assorted writing categories are highlighted on the mitt (including business, technology, legal, and underway events). Former TechCrunch illustrator and Website specializer Mark Hendrickson worked on the newborn homepage. It looks much preparation now, with topical documents and those attendant to breaking programme today existence highlighted (I’ve embedded Barack Obama’s set convey below?his income was $2.7 meg terminal year!).

Finally, it is inaugural up its APIs so that another sites crapper combine DocStoc functionality into their possess sites. These APIs earmark another sites to earmark previews and writing embeds, writing search, ingest DocStoc’s writing viewer, and upload documents direct to DocStoc.

If DocStoc is ever feat to grownup up to Scribd, it module hit to ready adding features and attain trusty the prizewinning docs are uploaded to it service. The APIs and DocCash strength help, as substantially as lowercase things same upload speeds (DocStoc seems faster to me). But with ascension popularity also comes ascension headaches. Already authors are first to complain most aggregation piracy. Uploading copyrighted entireness is against the cost of assist of both DocStoc and Scribd, but policing much practice becomes harder and harder with the sort of documents effort into the millions.

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