Josh Nunn’s Geekorium

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1. Josh Nunn said:
   
   2008-06-18 at 7:15 pm
   

   It does appear to be having some issues at the moment. I've changed the document they were both pointing too, as the other one was throwing errors (maybe it was sending the wrong meta info), and it seems to be working again. It's also got the same zoom issues it did before that Vuzit seems to have sorted.

   I get the impression that the PDFmenot guys threw it together in a weekend and put it online, but have no real future plans for it (I could be wrong of course), whereas you Vuzit guys have a big model for your product. There are so many competitors in this market though, with Scribd.com being your biggest rival I'd imagine. they essentially provide the smae service, but I'd argue that iPaper is a huge deal, and puts them at an advantage over your viewer. Sorry, it seems like I'm picking on you guys a bit, but I'm curious about your plans to keep up with the big guns. Does Google entering this space (slowly but surely) worry you at all?

   One way you could differentiate is the privacy concerns of these tools. I'm currently looking at implementing a PDF viewer into a school webpage, and the documents I wish to share shouldn't necessarily be promoted "socially" on a site like scribd. How could Vuzit help me keep my documents under my control on my own site, but more useful to my visitors (search, full page viewing, faster etc)?

   Thank you for responding to my original post – it was a throwaway post I wrote very quickly and with my initial first impressions. I hope you don't regret me voicing my additional concerns.

2. Chris Cera said:
   
   2008-06-18 at 5:44 pm
   

   Josh, Thank you for the thoughtful write-up, we really appreciate it. pdfmenot appears to be throwing an error now, so Vuzit appears to stand the test of time. :-D However, I think they have built a fine product that is extremely easy to use. As you pointed out, we have focused heavily on developers first, and our user tools will be coming in the near future.

   Please let us know if you have any additional questions about Vuzit, and we will be happy to help you. Best, -Chris

3. John said:
   
   2008-07-18 at 12:17 pm
   

   Ajax Document Viewer is a web based online document viewer and can embedded into any web page or linked from any page. It is fast, customizable and FREE.
   Are you having problems displaying documents, pdf’s, images, word documents? Do your customers have to download a reader to view a file? Do you need a fast pdf reader? Do you need a universal viewer for any kind of documents?

   All these problems go away by using Ajax Document Viewer.

   For most companies, getting software products to market on time, on budget, and with the right features and functionality is always a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be.

4. John said:
   
   2008-07-18 at 12:17 pm
   

   check out http://www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com

5. joshnunn said:
   
   2008-07-18 at 4:36 pm
   

   It sliced and dices and does your taxes too. You know that it’s a bit rude to just copy and paste your front page sales pitch into comments. The whole idea of marketing yourself on blogs is to engage in conversation with customers, like Chris did (above).

   And your name is a misnomer as well, it’s not Ajax, it’s flash, otherwise I could use it on my iPhone.

   I can however see the vuzit document somehow, so they win!

6. cera said:
   
   2008-08-25 at 2:59 pm
   

   Hi Josh,

   I believe you were using IntenseDebate on your blog in the past, and I'm going to blame them for my delay in responding. I never received an email notifying me that you replied …

   I think iPaper is an impressive product, and it's great to see a number of companies focused on similar areas in the marketplace. On the technology side, I think AJAX gives our publishers a great amount of flexibility that Flash simply cannot provide … and the footprint is much smaller (loads faster in mostly all cases). As for the business, I would prefer not to make any announcements here but we will be releasing some new products that will make the positioning clearer. Stay tuned.

   You mentioned a full-screen viewer. There is an example of that here:
   http://vuzit.com/developer/example_viewer_basic...

   You can also add a full-screen link to your viewer's toolbar, and host it on your own site. This is discussed here:
   http://forum.vuzit.com/viewtopic.php?id=85

   Lastly, thanks again for your interest in Vuzit.

7. joshnunn said:
   
   2008-08-25 at 3:13 pm
   

   Don't blame IntenseDebate – I've been hopping back and forth, which probably hasn't helped people who subscribe to my comments (read: you).

   If you read further down my comments (I think they're out of order now) I reckon Vuzit has the edge using AJAX as you've stated. Your comments about footprint are interesting, and something I hadn't considered. I'll be watching with interest to see where else Vuzit goes.

8. Document Viewer said:
   
   2008-10-07 at 10:17 pm
   

   If one does even not like to require flash for document views, there is a free service in german: looky-look.net
   Pehaps You like it ;-)

9. iPhone said:
   
   2008-10-07 at 10:19 pm
   

   i forgot to mention: the document viewer also works with iphones without flash, pdf viewers and other software.

10. joshnunn said:
    
    2008-10-09 at 10:11 am
    

    Thanks, but as I don't speak German, I'll stick with Vuzit.

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