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        OPENFLOODGATE
      
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        Openfloodgate 
      
      
        <u>http://openfloodgate.com> <http://openfloodgate.com>Openfloodgate 
        <http://openfloodgate.com></u>
      
      
        , like 
      
      
        <u>Scribd <http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/06/scribd-youtube-for-text-gets-300k/></u>
      
      
        , lets content creators publish their works to the web, but with decidedly more control. 
        The site is the project of 
      
      
        <b>Tina Seelig</b>
      
      
        , Executive Director of Stanford Technology Venture Partners and Adjunct Professor of 
        Entrepreneurship. Recently released from beta about two weeks ago, OpenFloodgate currently 
        features a variety of stories, poems, lyrics, photos, recipes, etc, uploaded by the site?s 
        users. Once uploaded, each work can then be rated, downloaded as a pdf, and commented on 
        by other users.
      
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        OpenFloodgate provides more control than other publishing sites. First, the site allows 
        publishers to limit who can see their work to a group or just yourself. Also, unlike other 
        document sharing sites, OpenFloodgate publishes every work as series of image files or 
      
      
        <b>PDFs</b>
      
      
        , making it harder to plagiarize the author?s content. This puts OpenFloodgate, and sites 
        like it, in a better position to handle the copyright woes that come along with user 
        generated content and also eventually charge for the content down the road.
      
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