Edocr.com - Social Bookmarking for Document

edocr is kind of like a social bookmarking site for documents. In the same way that you can upload, share, search for, tag, and store links on sites like Digg and del.icio.us, so too can you perform the same actions on edcor with your .doc and .pdf files. You can search for documents in a variety of ways, including category (books, case studies, brochures, etc), by user, alphabetically, by tag, by most popular, or by recently posted. You can also rate or comment on an uploaded document, as well as send a message to the edocr user who posted it (this service is naturally only available if you register for the site). edocr caters to two categories of members: "Authors and Publishers" and "Knowledge Seeker". While the benefits of edocr are self-explanatory for "Knowledge Seekers", you have to dig a little deeper in the site to find out what edocr can offer you if you're an author or a publisher. If your membership falls into that category, then aside from the obvious benefits of edocr you'll also be able to: embed documents in your corporate blogs, participate in interest groups which focus on your document, and sell your original documents.

"edocr provides a rich environment for documents to be interacted leading to better informed society and better products and services".

edocr provides not only a useful mechanism for authors publishers to distribute and get feedback about their documents, but provides a means through which information seekers can access relevant documents directly. This service could be particularly useful for research, especially if a book isn't available to you immediately in hard copy.

edocr's success depends largely on available content; how does it plan to encourage more document uploads? Some of the larger .pdf files are difficult to view and the text is too small; is there a way to expand the viewing window? It would also be useful if edocr made uploaders include the type of document in the title; right now all the site requires you to enter in the title field is the title itself.