Some bloggers and experts have welcomed the new Adobe Share with enthusiasm. Announced on October 07 at the MAX conference, the new Adobe Share has been , is a web-based team collaboration service allowing you to share, send documents and files online.
Simplifying it allows to:
- Share your documents online
- Send documents without e-mail attachments
- Embed your documents in webpages
- Access your documents from anywhere
Its interface is easy and it is evident that is well designed and nicely organized. This means that you can share documents among users members in a way extremely easy and effective.
How Adobe Share Works. Three simple steps.
Step 1: The first things you do is to select or upload the files you want to share. Adobe Share lets you work and share uploaded file inside Adobe Share or by adding from your directory, any new file you’ve need.
Step 2: Choose who you want to share your files. Choose an email with wich you want to share the selected files. If you prefer you can also save contacts inside your Adobe Share account and select them when you need from a drop-down list.
Step 3: Choose the access level you want to provide to your files.
- Open access: Anyone who knows the URL can access and download the file(s).
- Limited access: Only my specific recipients can access and download the file(s).
Interface
The user interface is extremely clean and easy to use. You are given some degree of control over to how to share one or more files with one or more of your contacts. The Adobe Share interface is also very simple, is composed of two main areas (Home and Library) accessible via two navigation tabs.
Pros
- Adobe Share is capable to host for free up to 1Gb worth of documents that you want to share.
- Adobe Share are experimenting an embed code that gives you the chance to publish a flash preview of any document hosted on the service(for now, it possible for pdfs and image files).
Cons
- It no allows to do collaborative work on the shared documents like Google docs. It only able to upload or download any type of file documents.
- Widget is incredibly slow.
- If there is one thing that lets things down with Adobe Share is that the preview isn’t readable. Compared to Youtube, while on Youtube you can see well the videos on the right sidebar, AdobeShare provides images preview too small to read.
Conclusion
The most interesting thing about Adobe Share for me is the possibility to turn any document into a web-embeddable widget, especially if in the next future, Adobe manages to do successful preview of many specialized file format.
