Comments on: Why Doesn’t Adobe Share Get Any Love?

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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:51:11 +0000

[...] month, Adobe evangelist Ryan Stewart asked why Adobe Share doesn’t get as much attention as other document sharing services. Without picking on all the gory details of Share itself, the main way I see Whizbang 2.0 services [...]

By: Cote'

Cote' — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:51:11 +0000

Put most simply, it gets no love because Adobe doesn’t advertise and hype it enough. You’ve got to do things to attracts attention like integrate with OpenID, Twitter, Google Docs (and Buzzword), Facebook, or whatever new and interesting site is out there to get people to think of it as something new and exciting on a monthly, if not weekly basis. Otherwise, as people have sort of noted, it’s just corporate-ware.

By: Chris Charlton

Chris Charlton — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:31:41 +0000

I’m a fan of what Share offers. I see it having a big potential with BuzzWord integration. I see it also tying into Connect as well. I’m a fan of services like these, which are reliable, and allow me to integrate an API into my apps. I love it, I just don’t use it yet.

By: Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:35:13 +0000

Whoops, sorry guys that some of the comments got stuck in the moderation queue. I’m in Asia so I’m a bit behind.

Really, REALLY great feedback on all levels. Especially with regards to the Adobe ID. I’m going to start pushing the team to use OpenID for a lot of our services because I think it’s a no-brainer. These comments are hugely valuable to that cause.

Thanks again guys, I’ll be sending all of this to the team.

By: thinman

thinman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:21:36 +0000

I love Adobe Share. The extremely active and highly skilled Adobe developer community embraced it as soon as it dropped into beta, and Ray Camden came out with ColdFusion CFCs to leverage the platform in ColdFusion apps. It’s over at his RIAForge.com site, and it couldn’t be any easier to build an app on Share. I’m going to do it today, as a matter of fact. As soon as I get the bugginess out of my view transitions in Flex….

By: Eric Higgins

Eric Higgins — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:48:12 +0000

I like Share a lot. Hopefully it will be fully integrated in all new versions.

By: Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:45:35 +0000

Adobe Share gets no love for two reasons:

1) There’s no community. Adobe doesn’t do community.

2) It doesn’t work. I’ve tried to use it, I’ve seen others seen a few bloggers attempt to use it – and it never gets past “Generating Flash Preview.” And then they go back to Scribd and SlideShare – solutions that actually do what they’re supposed to.

By: Glen Pike

Glen Pike — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:33:24 +0000

I just had a look at Share and it looks really nice from a collaboration point of view. I have serious problems with collaboration at the moment because my web hosting restricts my email attachments to < 5MB. Personally I think this is a good thing because email was never meant to contend with huge files, but from a business perspective it sucks – I keep having to tell people mail stuff to another email address, which confuses the issue because then they start using that one to try and communicate…

Anyway, I love the API idea and can’t wait to see a desktop widget that I could drop my files on to be sent to someone I was collaborating with.

Saying that, I think that some companies are still very dubious of allowing their files to be held on other people’s storage, but at the end of the day, it’s no different than putting it on web-hosting, it’s just a perception / trust issue.

I will be having a play with Share over the next few weeks to see if I can use it for collaborating, but I think the problem is that you have to go through a frustrating registration process first. I think the idea of having projects and separating these out for each login would be good for collaboration. I don’t want company A seeing files for company B, but I need to work with them both.

Keep up the good work and send me that widget.

By: enefekt

enefekt — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:37:56 +0000

Adobe Share doesn’t support PowerPoint files yet does it?

By: Marc Hughes

Marc Hughes — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:40:27 +0000

I’m planning Adobe Share support for AgileAgenda (my scheduling app), but the thing that’s been keeping me from doing it is the beta status.

When it goes official, what will be the fee structure? Free? Free for a limited account, pay for more? Pay-only? How committed it Adobe to the technology? If nobody uses it will it be gone in a year?

Also, being able to embed the content in a web page is great, if you’re sharing one of the few supported formats. But what about custom file formats? I want to supply a custom swf that’s used as the embedded viewer.