Naresh Sarwan is senior technical writer and head of features for Digital Asset News. Prior to working for Digital Asset News, he was lead technical editor at DAMToolkit.com and worked as DAM technology consultant for a range of media organizations including The BBC, Image Source, Digital Vision, ITN, Sky, Accenture, BT and Cisco.

Box.net Raises $48M


Commodity document management and collaboration vendor, Box.net announced today they have raised $48M (US) in funding.  Founder Aaron Levie states:

To realize the full potential of our service, and deliver this new experience to customers, we must build a different kind of enterprise software company. The ways in which

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Google’s New Docs Viewer Format Support: Implications For DAM?


Last week, Google announced that they were introducing 12 new file formats to the Google Docs Viewer, they include:

  • Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)
  • Apple Pages (.PAGES)
  • Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
  • Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
  • Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
  • PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
  • TrueType
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