A daunting challenge is the rapid pace that web pages change. How do you get back to the page you saw? How can you show what you saw to other people? How can you save and share relevant information with your users if it is always disappearing?
Pete Grillo and I had lunch with Marshall Kirkpatrick just before our public launch last week. Marshall is a professional blogger. He has consulted for iterasi.
In the video interview, I asked Marshall what uses he sees for iterasi. Marshall talked about how he had been looking at the Google cache of a particular company to see if their terms of service had changed in the past few days. He would have liked to link to the page but he knew that Google clears its cache and the link would eventually be unavailable or altered in some manner.
With iterasi, Marshall said he could have grabbed a snapshot of the terms of service at two different points in time, showing the Google cache version and at a later point the company’s terms of service on their web page. The blog post would be timeless without concern about the links disappearing when Google clears its cache.
Here is an example of how this might work. Here is the Google cache version of the Facebook terms of service that I saved with iterasi. To display the saved page, I copied the embed code from my iterasi account:
I then saved the Facebook terms of service from their web site and copied the embed code:
The result is a permanent record of Facebook’s terms of service from the Google cache and the Facebook web site.
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