Adobe Acrobat 9 & Acrobat.com (BuzzWord)

Post icon Posted 02 June 2008 - 07:29 PM

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced Adobe® Acrobat® 9 software, a significant upgrade that will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers native support for Adobe Flash® technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues.

Flash integration with PDFs sounds awesome. Embedded video, rich & interactive documents. Very cool.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced Acrobat.com , a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, that put communication, productivity, and collaboration tools right within a Web browser. Much like Adobe® Acrobat® software enabled the publishing of high-quality electronic documents that anyone can read, Acrobat.com enables individuals to truly work collaboratively on electronic documents.

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The hosted services in Acrobat.com include:

- Adobe Buzzword®, a Web-based word processor that can be used to easily co-author and share documents for comment and review, creating high-quality print results;

- Adobe ConnectNow, a personal Web conferencing service that includes desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing and integrated chat;

- Centralized online file sharing with access controls, online PDF conversion for up to five documents, and support for high quality, Web-embeddable documents;

- Developer APIs for real-time collaboration, file sharing and conversion.

Sounds like Adobe wants to compete with Google in the online collab space. ConnectNow just sounds like their existing Adobe Connect software but limited to 3 people. Connect is an awesome tool though. I'll use both BuzzWord and Connect in the future I'm sure.