8. A method for sharing digital resources of a publisher through a web service, the method comprising: at a system comprising one or more processors and one or more memories coupled to at least one of the one or more processors: receiving a selection from a publishing user of a digital resource to share, wherein the digital resource is associated with a plurality of views; receiving a selection from the publishing user of a group of subscribing users, the selection indicating that the digital resource is to be shared with the group of subscribing users according to one of the plurality of views; receiving a selection of a sharing relationship from the publishing user, the sharing relationship specifying allowable interactions with the selected digital resource by the group of subscribing users; and in accordance with the selection of the sharing relationship, controlling interactions of the selected group of subscribing users with the one of the plurality of views of the selected digital resource, including at least: in accordance with a determination that the selected sharing relationship includes a first sharing relationship, sending a copy of the one of the plurality of views of the digital resource to the selected group of subscribing users, wherein the one of the plurality views has metadata describing a sharing style that corresponds to the selected sharing relationship for the selected group of subscribing users; and in response to receiving from the publishing user a change notification concerning modification to the selected digital resource: forwarding the change notification to the selected group of subscribing users, receiving from a subset of the selected group of subscribing users a request to block future notifications from the publishing user, and modifying the sharing relationship to enable blocking of future notifications from the publishing user.
12. The method of claim 8 , wherein: a user that requests the digital resource can edit information in a local copy of the digital resource, and the edited information in the local copy of the digital resource is overwritten if the publishing user updates the digital resource.