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Document Sharing Becoming Big Business
nytimes.com — Three entrepreneurial firms see opportunity in changing smaller companies ’ perceptions about computers. Rather than keeping all corporate data, confidential and otherwise, in software programs within the organization, the three firms would hold it online.
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- Neticule, on 03/06/2008, -0/+19Man, what a jackpot that would be for hackers, hack into one site and you have confidential documents for thousands of corporations.
- Sanduu, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2They would definitely have to care about security, but still is a great idea. But i still like the idea !
- daradib, on 03/06/2008, -0/+2Crackers not hackers would do such a thing.
- InferiorWang, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Thanks to mainstream media, the average person doesn't know the difference.
- MWeather, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Wasn't that the plot to Live Free or Die Hard?
- rozzlapeed, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Not in so many words
- YEVFdotcom, on 03/06/2008, -12/+6Docstoc is an entrepreneurs dream! I have utilized the site quite a bit and have referred many other fellow entrepreneurs to check it out.
- ayeroxor, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1three words for ya: http://sites.google.com
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- jcrow, on 03/06/2008, -7/+3Great article. Can't wait to see the day when documents are given the same weight in Social Networks as Video or Music. The pen is mightier than the video camera? Well, maybe not but definitely on a par.
- ToeCracker, on 03/06/2008, -7/+8Docstoc is a brilliant site form both storing documents and finding them to download.
- queenmoweeny, on 03/06/2008, -9/+4Docstoc is amazing!
- bamafun, on 03/06/2008, -0/+11I heard the Church of Scientology won't allow any data stored online
- ToeCracker, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3That's no surprise. Can you imagine every hacker in the world trying to crack their files if they did.
- ayeroxor, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Imagine the horrors if people read what this "religion" says everyone should read, but didn't have to pay to do it!
- ToeCracker, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3That's no surprise. Can you imagine every hacker in the world trying to crack their files if they did.
- larrydavidfan, on 03/06/2008, -9/+3Docstoc provides an amazing social website for people to get upload and download any type of document you can imagine for free. Awesome service.
- lOvOl, on 03/06/2008, -1/+12Yah it is all great until your document storage provider goes out of business and you need to figure out how to get your files back somehow. There is nothing wrong with remote offsite backup of files that are strongly encrypted BEFORE they are delivered to another company, but simply handing over your confidential documents to some other business to manage in CLEARTEXT is a ridiculously shortsighted business decision if you ask me.
Of course there are potentially big administrative benefits to not having to have an IT department or local IT firm to manage the file servers in your office, but unless the documents are sent as CIPHERTEXT to the document storage company and your company and only your company has the keys to decrypt your documents, you really don't have any control over your data and all it takes is one dishonest or disgruntled employee at your outsourced document storage company to release those documents to your competitors or even worse, release them into the public domain.- bamafun, on 03/06/2008, -3/+1I'm sure they all are required to carry some kind of insurance that would protect and/or compensate the business should something like that happen.
- doctechnical, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5Best place in the world to keep your sock-puppet manifestos and kiddy porn!
- alexander13, on 03/06/2008, -7/+1I have been told by some friends of the good results they have gotten by posting docs up to docstoc, and some rankings in google they've gotten for them.
- ToeCracker, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Yes this certainly happens and by completing your profile and including your blog, it helps.
- jphicks, on 03/06/2008, -7/+1Great idea.
- Adambassador, on 03/06/2008, -9/+2Way to go docstoc! Making national news!
- janiceelizabeth, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3I think we've only scratched the surface of online document storage - the key being to get a system that you trust with your confidential data. And I don't mean just a more powerful security system as outlined in the article - but also a way of keeping the human element from cocking up the whole thing. We had a recent security breach in the UK where a load of data (including children's names, dates of birth and their parents bank records) went missing because some civil servant sent a backup disk through the mail to another government department. But that could happen in any IT department whether you outsource or not.
- maxyRO, on 03/06/2008, -4/+1With the types of documents services docstoc offer any business owner or online entrepreneur would be crazy not to upload their documents, photos and images as well as include their blog as this will increase their online exposure. To be able to also download documents for free is a briliiant service.
- JesusHatesYou, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Hey, why only share documents? How about software too? Maybe something like a Net PC? ;) Anyway, it's a security nightmare. It just means big business for Russian corporate espionage.
- Hercules, on 03/06/2008, -0/+6This is already in existence for every larger enterprise. It's called Microsoft Sharepoint.
Couple it with Groove Server, you have the ability to collaborate on documents, check them in and out, version them (keeping older copies), add security, and make it publicly accessible (internet). And you manage your own security and your own documentation.
These companies might have niche markets for those organizations who can't handle a Sharepoint implementation, but honestly... it's freaking easy. I don't get how some companies get traction in the media.- digginestdogg, on 03/06/2008, -2/+0I wouldn't trust the security of anything from Microsoft given their lousy reputation for security. I am sure their EULA would make them not responsible so when your HR docs or financials get hacked you'll have no recourse for damages. No way.
- Hercules, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2You are really slow. Microsoft provides a product like Sharepoint.
You have to secure your own network to protect it. It has nothing to do with Microsoft security and to boot -- you wouldn't trust them, but you'd think to trust small mom and pop shops like mentioned in the article? Most of the time, Sharepoint isn't internet accessible, only through VPN -- and that's where that whole "security" thing comes into play.
Your blind hatred of Microsoft is why you are stupid.
- Hercules, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2You are really slow. Microsoft provides a product like Sharepoint.
- digginestdogg, on 03/06/2008, -2/+0I wouldn't trust the security of anything from Microsoft given their lousy reputation for security. I am sure their EULA would make them not responsible so when your HR docs or financials get hacked you'll have no recourse for damages. No way.
- Chassit, on 03/06/2008, -3/+3I can manage my own confidential docs, kthxplzgoaway!
- rsh28630, on 03/06/2008, -0/+3Smells like hype. There are numerous reasons why this approach is less than ideal. Begin with the fact that power does go out unpredictably where you are as well as at the ISP's location and the Application Services Provider's site. Next, add the reason the Internet exists: intelligent design understands if you build a target they will come. Then there's sincere promises made by starry eyed entrepreneurs do not mean squat at the asset liquidation sale. And finally, "website security" is an oxymoron as thousands of naive Pollyannas learn every day. Take heed... cheap and easy is rarely prudent where privacy is essential.
- IHaveIssues, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Smells like hype? You bet! Read the buried comments - they're shilling the site all the way. These are the type of people that think everyone other than them is an idiot.
- bamafun, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1seriously let me ask you something ??? Is this not a true viable option for small business especially? I'm being serious here ...... isn't something like cloudworks an option to allow them to have better equipment, better scalability and at less overall cost? If I'm wrong tell me - and if submitting a story from the NY TIMES about a business topic in the BUSINESS CATEGORY is not useful information ....please tell me that then via email - I appreciate your feedback and try everyday to submit useful quality content to this site and I really resent when you say something like you did without considering my true intent.
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- Radigg, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1Good for them if they can make money this way, but this is a business model with a lot of risks as pointed out above.
- zplot, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Glad to see Docstoc getting more attention. I think this has a lot of potential, although Docstoc and Cloudworks still have a long way to go. For Cloudworks its gaining the trust of enterprises to share confidential docs on-line. For Docstoc, giving companies incentive to share content with others. As a student I love what I see on Docstoc so far, so hopefully more will come from professionals.
- Fangsinmybeard, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0This sounds like a scam on businesses. It will make more companies at risk of hacking because of the security structure. Few companies holding on to that much information will leave the financial giants vulnerable to blackmail.
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