Vuzit itself looks like a useful service. What I am not clear on is what value someone would get from writing their own viewer to embed in their website when that seems to be the hardest task they would be "outsourcing" by using your service. Is it to customize the look and feel (possibly by using a technology like Flash as you suggested)?
It's great that you guys have an API. I'll take a look at it when I need to embed docs on a web page.
Thanks for the explanation. You're correct about outsourcing, and this is the #1 reason why we have customers :)
We often get requests to build something specific for a mobile device, customized skins/toolbars, annotation tools, exporting forms, etc. It's impossible for us to do everything, so we changed things around a bit to allow others to build their own interfaces on top of our own.
We will continue to enhance our viewer for our core audience, and we will focus on areas that we believe we can deliver the most value.
I'm hopeful that with our new approach, it will empower other products and services to use 90% of what we have built and add the last 10% themselves.
I hope that clears it up, and thanks for the feedback. -Chris