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Document sharing is actually quite a crowded space, with several serious competitors; Scribd and Docstoc come to mind, but I’m sure there are many others. However, Zoho has been so thorough with their online office suite that it’s only logical they created a document sharing service of their own.

Their vision of how document sharing should look is called Zoho Share, and unlike most competitors, who still feel they need to explain what their service is about, they really take the youtube route, with the homepage immediately hitting you with recent and featured document, as well as most prolific and recent users of the service.

Surprisingly, the official FAQ doesn’t work, but the service is so easy to use I’m sure everyone will get around without problems. It supports all Zoho’s formats, PDF files, Microsoft Word documents, and other popular formats, sans the much hated new Office formats (.docx and others). Users can grade, flag and comment all shared documents. Whatever you share, you can embed in a viewer which works quite well, although a zoom function would be nice (or necessary, in case of certain formats like PDFs). Scribd’s iPaper is much better with this regard, and although I’m used to Zoho releasing products which are well ahead of the curve when it comes to features, this time they’ve chosen a barebone approach which probably won’t be enough for some users.

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