Night of the Flash-based Widget
Okay the name is annoying—we're long past the point where any new product or technology should have a lower-case letter i slapped in front of it—but once you get past that, iPaper provides an interesting approach to displaying documents on the web. Whether it's PDF, Word, PowerPoint or other formats, this is yet another example of Adobe Flash contining its relentless march unabated, swallowing all media types in its path.
And why not display documents on web sites via Flash widgets, much as YouTube displays video? We all know the horror of poking through complex web-based PDF files. And having other document types display in their respective applications is usually a jarring experience for web site visitors, abruptly yanking them away from the site. The developer of iPaper is Scribd (pronounced "script") and it makes a solid case for its approach to document display.
Being cross platform is a good place to start, followed by security, an improved document browsing experience, built-in social features and search engine optimization, and certainly not least the ability to monetize documents via the inevitable Google ads. If you need to make documents available to your site vistors, iPaper is certainly worth checking out. Despite the name.
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