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The online office service ThinkFree has launched a new Flash-based document viewer called Uni Paper. It can be embedded to any web page and displays most common office formats: PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The max file size is 5MB. The readers can view and search in a document without the need to download it to desktop. And when you edit this published document in your online ThinkFree account, the changes are reflected in real-time back anywhere the Uni Paper has been embedded or shared. Besides the opportunity of publishing documents on your site, you can add it to ThinkFree public catalog, that can attract additional readers. But ThinkFree's viewer is not so advanced as one in Scribd, Docstoc, Slideshare. For example, it's missing the option to view all the pages of a document at once, and the the directory of publicly shared documents contains very little categorization, or genre-based exploration.

Just two weeks after Scribd launched it's attachment killing service, it main rival Docstoc is releasing a similar tool called OneClick. It's an online service plus small desktop agent that adds file-sharing function to your Windows right-click menu. By right-clicking on any local document (.doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt) you can easily upload it to Docstoc's online storage and get a link for sharing it publicly or securely with others. An email is auto-generated by the app using your default email client. You can simply add the recipient(s) e-mail address(es). Your recipients will be able open and read the document without a need to download it. The max file size that you can upload is 50Mb. The OneClick application is PC-only for now, but Mac version will be on its way soon.