Storing Documents Online
There are a few ways to store documents online. Google docs, Microsoft’s new Skydrive, and a site called Scribd.
Google Docs is nice because it gives you the comfort of essentially using an online version of MS Word. You can write and edit docs online just as you would in Word, only slower. Some other nice features are as follows: share documents with others, revision control and notes, and exporting to a PDF file.
Skydrive acts like an online hard drive. You can store any type of file you like on there, and lots of them. It lets you create folders, share the folders with others or the public, and gives you a lot of space (500MB currently.)
I haven’t used Scribd much yet, but ran into today when I came across the document below. Scribd focuses mostly on the document more than the personal user’s space. It is really more about an single documents and adding a social element to them, rather than a place to store files. Check out this interesting and funny paper on the site.

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