Scribd Launches Readcast, Integrates with Facebook
®
Social Plugins
To Make Reading More Social
SAN FRANCISCO -- April 21, 2010 --
Scribd, the world's largest social publishing and reading site, is launching Scribd
Readcast
integrated with Facebook’s new social plugins launched at Facebook’s f8 developer conference today. Readcast is a set of features that enables people to automatically share what they're reading on Scribd with their friends on Facebook and other social sites. The
Facebook Like
button and
Activity Feed
are also now part of the Scribd social reading experience. “Scribd is the place where connections form around shared reading interests," said Trip Adler, CEO and co-founder Scribd. “Now, the universe of social reading suddenly opens up to include Twilight fan fiction, investigative reports about Goldman Sachs, Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 presentation, tips for using solar power. This reflects the breadth and depth of what people read on a daily basis, not just what they're reading on news sites."
Readcast
is a customizable feature that enables people to automatically share what they’re reading on Scribd with friends on Facebook and contacts on other social media sites. People can also choose to share other Scribd reading events such as scribbles, comments, ratings, downloads and eventually mobile reading activity, printing and purchases. Click here for more information about Readcast.
Faceboook social plugins
integration enables Scribd users to “like” their favorite reading material and to see -- without leaving Scribd.com -- which Scribd books, research, presentations, illustrations and other written works their friends on Facebook friends “like,” comment on, and share.
"Scribd's integration with our new social plugins allows people to create social connections around written works," said Ethan Beard, director of Facebook Developer Network. "Now, its easier to connect with friends on Facebook who are reading the same books, researching the same topics or sharing the same recipes you would like."
About Scribd, Inc.
Scribd is the largest social publishing and reading site in the world with more than 50 million readers each month. We've made it incredibly simple for anyone to share and discover informative, entertaining and original written content on the web and mobile devices. Our vision is to liberate the written word, to connect people and organizations with the information and ideas that matter most to them. Our innovative document reader technology has lowered the barriers to publishing by enabling anyone to easily upload and share their work in any file format, including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and EPUB. Scribd is a venture-backed company based in San Francisco. For more information, please visit http://www.scribd.com.
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