I feel like the naming of all these technology startups is finally reaching a point of no return. Out of context, "Box Acquires Crocodoc" sounds like gibberish.
CEO of Crocodoc here. Crocodoc's API will remain a stand-alone offering as part of the Box platform, and we're going to be investing heavily in making our service even better! Nothing's going away, and we'll continue to support all of our existing (and new) customers.
It is indeed. I believe that their API will remain up and be used by many, but it probably won't be used by DropBox for long. Classy move by their CEO to make it clear that DropBox is welcome to use it.
Is this agreed on, and properly documented? Or is it just your words against Box that very soon will become your owner and can do whatever the hell they want to, including shutting you down (if some insane people are in charge [this happened before]).
This is going to sound like I'm trolling you, but pdf.js only supports PDFs. You'll need to convert those other doc types to PDFs before using them with pdf.js.
You can try MS office. If you dont want to buy/install it you can just use the in browser version. All you need is a MS account and you can also export the files as pdf..
We're looking forward to launching the new version of Crocodoc once things settle down on our end. You can preview how it will work at http://preview.crocodoc.com
Viewing a document on Yammer? That’s Crocodoc. Looking at a resume in Linkedin Recruiter? Crocodoc again. Reviewing an assignment on Edmodo? Crocodoc. Getting directions from Siri? Not Crocodoc. But you get the point.
That statement is funny to me because getting directions from Siri is the only one of those that I've actually ever done.
Doh. Congrats, but I'm a little worried. We just moved thousands of documents to Crocodoc's platform just a couple of months ago. I'm not really looking forward to having to re-engineer our integration.
I should have seen this coming. You guys have a very awesome product. We shopped around for almost a year and used 2 other platforms before discovering and switching to you guys.
Hi there, co-founder of Crocodoc here. Crocodoc will continue being the best platform for document viewing and collaboration. Box is investing heavily in our platform and will make sure we stay awesome. Any updates to the API going forward should be totally seamless, but if you run into any problems, just give me a ping (I'm Peter). I'll make sure the transition happens smoothly.
Is there an alternative company you can just subscribe to without having to get a call from their sales guys, if not i'll make the call but ideally I just want to sign up and use it.
The word "experience" occurs at least eight times in that announcement. Come on, folks. They're just documents. Documents don't need "reimagining." We don't want "experiences;" we simply want a product that works well, has great features, a fair price, and from a company that will be around long enough to make our investment worthwhile. CTOs aren't sitting around asking for "experiences."
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 129 ms ] threadIt's a shame, since Crocodoc seemed way better than anything else out there for doing HTML5 previews.
We're looking forward to launching the new version of Crocodoc once things settle down on our end. You can preview how it will work at http://preview.crocodoc.com
On your blog page -- http://blog.crocodoc.com/ -- clicking the top-left logo should take you to your home page.
That statement is funny to me because getting directions from Siri is the only one of those that I've actually ever done.
I should have seen this coming. You guys have a very awesome product. We shopped around for almost a year and used 2 other platforms before discovering and switching to you guys.
Is any marketable change these days not a "reimagination"?