Someone up there loves me right now…

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve encountered a situation where I’ve thought to myself, wow, I wish this type of tool existed because that would be extremely useful right now. Then, as though some invisible genie was sat behind me granting my every wish, I would log on and find just that tool had been launched and hit the media.

The latest example of this that I’m super excited about is Scribd. Man, Web 2.0 sure loves to leave out its final vowel when naming. Anyway, this startup has followed in YouTube’s footsteps, but looks to create a community around sharing papers.

I’m excited by this because there’s a lot of white papers that float around, those from TechRepublic have had the most interesting titles to me recently, and this service will greatly encourage the circulation of these whilst still allowing them to be monetised. Some of the charges for white papers out there are quite insane, and I hope that by adopting Scribd’s platform, the people that produce such white papers will feel much better about opening up their distribution to a wider audience (and for free). This is certainly the perfect way for freelancers who are specialists in certain fields to publish and promote their work while earning from ad revenue.

More findings later…