Users then get an email confirmation back with links to all the documents they have uploaded, that they can they pass on and share with any contacts.

Other recent improvements include an enhanced Onsite Upload tool which maked embeding documents even easier. Simply upload any documents onsite, and in the upload process as they are converting they generate an “embed link” so that you can instantly upload and embed documents anywhere around the web.

Now users can also embed documents as presentations (It did this by default for all .ppt files, but you can select .pdf or .doc or.xls to display as presentation as well).

Since the release of Docstoc Sync and Docstoc OneClick there has been a 250% growth in number of contributors to the site each month with contributors uploading over 100 documents each on average.

99Designs, the largest design contest marketplace, announced today the opening of its US headquarters. The company was created to enable SMBs and nonprofits to quickly and inexpensively crowdsource custom designed logos, business cards, websites and more; while at the same time creating a level playing field for designers to showcase their work and win new clients. The new office, located in San Francisco, is a result of 99designs’ rapid growth – the site is now reporting that a new design is uploaded every 30 seconds.

99designs brings the power of crowdsourcing to custom design. Using online design contests open to its design community of over 20,000 designers, 99designs greatly expands the number of creative minds working on a design project. Not only do clients benefit from the abundance of choice, but the design process itself is streamlined saving both time and money.

To begin this process, clients simply post design requirements and set a budget. Designers can immediately begin submitting their designs while clients guide the process by commenting on the submitted work. After the contest ends, usually in about a week, the client picks a winner and leaves with a finished design project.

“Crayons without Borders needed a logo so we could begin our fundraising efforts and 99designs was recommended to me through a friend. I honestly could not believe how many design options I got and how quick and painless the whole process was,” said Karen Kahn, founder of Crayons without Borders. “The community was the amazing aspect, because you essentially get your own focus group. I could read what the designers were saying about all of the designs and it helped inform my decision. Using 99designs was an incredible experience; I would use it again in a heartbeat.”

“Finding the right designer for your business the traditional way is often a long and complicated process leading to frustration and escalating expenses,” said Mark Harbottle, CEO and founder of 99designs. “What’s great about 99designs is that you can literally be presented with 99 different designs from dozens of different designers, which vastly increases your chances of finding the right designer for your business. Designers also benefit because they now have a place online where they can demonstrate their talent and build relationships with new clients. For designers, 99designs is the perfect marketing and lead generation tool.”

99designs connects clients needing design work to a thriving community of over 20,000 talented designers. In under a year, 99designs has held over 12,000 design projects. For more information please visit: 99designs.com.

About 99designs

99designs is an online design marketplace and community that connects passionate designers from around the globe with savvy clients who need design projects completed in a timely fashion without the usual risk or cost associated with professional design. It has held over 12,000 design contests to date with nearly 1,000,000 unique designs. For more information please visit: 99designs.com.

Here are the three broad implications of the CNBC-LinkedIn collaboration for our users:

1. On LinkedIn: LinkedIn’s rapidly growing user base of over 27 million professionals now have an opportunity to both consume as well as share with their professional network, breaking business news & content from CNBC that ranges from articles and blogs to financial data and video content.

2. On CNBC.com: As a regular CNBC.com user, you’ll start seeing LinkedIn’s community and networking functionality integrated on CNBC.com (for e.g. sharing CNBC articles with your professional network on LinkedIn or finding out who in your network connects you to the companies you read about).

3. On CNBC: Community-generated content from LinkedIn will also be broadcast on CNBC programs. These include survey results and on-air Q&A with CNBC anchors, reporters and guests.

These are the three areas we’re planning for in our collaboration with CNBC in the coming months. We believe this will help our users stay on top of the latest in their field of business and more importantly, will enable them to share that information with their professional network — at the speed of business.

In the spirit of community involvement, I would like to ask you, our members, what ideas you may have for how CNBC and LinkedIn can work together to help you.  Please submit your answers here.

Dan Nye
CEO, LinkedIn

Docstoc, the professional document network, has launched a pair of new features that help transition the site from primarily a document sharing platform to a personal document archive as well. The features, dubbed MyDocs and Sync, allow users to quickly upload their files to the web, where they can be quickly accessed from any computer that supports the ubiquitous Flash plugin.

MyDocs is essentially a dashboard for users’ documents, not unlike an online version of Windows’ My Documents folder. Users can skim through their files as thumbnails, search by keyword, sort each document into online folders, and modify each doc’s privacy settings. Most impressive is MyDoc’s Preview feature, which allows users to rapidly skim through full versions of their documents using Docstoc’s Flash-based Document viewer. In Preview mode, Docstoc displays a list of thumbnails down a sidebar and presents the document itself as part of the main window, allowing users to quickly browse through their documents. In practice this worked surprisingly well - documents opened within a few seconds (oftentimes faster than they would on the desktop), making MyDocs a viable alternative to the tradional My Documents Folder.
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On the ad front, Bloglines has started putting display ads into search results and into individual members’ “start pages,” with more forms of advertising on the way — specifically within feed readers, reports CNET writer Caroline McCarthy on a network blog.

Bloglines first started its beta rollout nearly a year ago — the early player in the RSS feeder niche has faced increased competition from Google Reader as what was once a Mountain View, Calif., side project has become the reader of choice for many new-media junkies.

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Once you’ve signed up with Booklert, you can start tracking books. Any books that are in Amazon’s catalogue. Your books; your competitors’ books; your favourite books; the books you hate… Booklert doesn’t care. It will send you the rank of whichever books you’re tracking at the times you’ve chosen, and tell you whether each book is climbing the chart, or falling from grace.

Choose When and How You Get Updates

From your settings page you can decide how frequently you receive the updates and how the updates should be delivered. You can get them as often as every hour (although that’s only for the rank addict) or as infrequently as once a week. You can even configure a “quiet time” when Booklert will stop sending you updates each day.

There are two different ways that updates can be sent - the obvious method is via email, but if you have a twitter account then you can receive the updates there too (which means you can even get them sent to your phone).

Show Off Your Rank

If you want to promote your book on your own website or blog then you can use the Booklert badges. Follow the simple steps and you’ll soon have a badge showing your book’s cover and its latest rank on your site. Then if web visitors click on the book they’ll get taken straight to the book’s page on Amazon where they can buy themselves a copy.

You Don’t Need a High Rank to Top Our Charts

And as a final bonus, every Sunday we work out the Booklert rank chart. Rather than just show the books with the highest rank, we look at the fastest movers in the rankings over the previous week. If your book is soaring up the rankings (even if that’s because it started at the bottom…) then it will feature in the “Top Climbers” chart, and similarly, the books dropping like a stone will have a last glimpse of the limelight in the “Going Down” chart.