We did a production push this morning which went very smoothly (no downtime). This push adds a significant new feature for Approver users: the ability to publish a document to the Web for anyone to view.
When we were adding the ability to publish documents to a blog, we realized that general-purpose Web publishing was really what we should have been shooting for all along. So we added it to the publishing flow we originally created for blog publishing. Now when you go to your Publish page, in addition to any blogs you may have configured, you’ll see a new option (”The Web”). Files you publish to the Web are copied to a Web server that anyone can access. If you want to embed an image or other file into a message board, blog or HTML email, we provide the code for that as well. You can view a list of all the documents you’ve published and you can easily take down a public file anytime you wish.
We should mention that files you publish using Approver.com are hosted by our good pals at Amazon.com. We’re taking advantage of a super-cool Amazon product called S3 which gives us the ability to publish your Approver.com data using Amazon’s infrastructure. Suffice it to say that Amazon’s infrastructure is mighty mighty, and without it we probably would not have been able to provide this feature in an economical way for our users.
