Embed documents from Scribd

The overhauled Scribd (as GigaOM puts it) is something close to YouTube for documents. It's really easy to embed a document in your pages using Scribd.

Take a look at how the following document looks like embedded in a page:


Similar to YouTube, Scribd uses flash as base technology for rendering documents. Here's how the embedded code looks like:

<object width="500" height="200"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="SameDomain" /><param name="movie" value="http://static.scribd.com/FlashPaperS3.swf?guid=g1t9xgitr71v6&document_id=28185&page=1" /><embed width="500" height="200" src="http://static.scribd.com/FlashPaperS3.swf?guid=g1t9xgitr71v6&document_id=28185&page=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </object>

Getting the code is again as simple as YouTube:

Embed google spreadsheets in your website

Google Docs and Spreadsheets provides a lot of sharing options for your spreadsheets. In this page, they explain how you can embed your spreadsheet inside your website.

Here's how a sample spreadsheet looks like:


And here's the generated code:

<iframe width='500' height='' frameborder='0'src='http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pPwo7--7PfjIRdqjkoYfiIQ&output=html&widget=true'></iframe>

They also provide a lot of different other options for embedding:

Embed spreadsheets in your website using Zoho sheet

Zoho sheet is another great product from Zoho that can generate spreadsheets embeddable in your blog or your website.

Just create your spreadsheet and click on the "Publish" menu, where you will find the option "Embed in Website/Blog". From there, after agreeing on making the spreadsheet public, you can copy the HTML and paste it in your website.



Here is how the embedded Zoho spreadsheet looks like:



And here's the code:

<iframe src='http://sheet.zoho.com/publish.do?docurl=uQcCx5q7c8%2BexjSstIh0sQ%3D%3D&name=W5%2BmaSCODVz%2BuVm31GQvyw%3D%3D'
frameborder='0' scrolling='no'
style='height:500px;width:600px'>
</iframe>