Iterasi is a new type of bookmark site, currently in private beta, one which allows you to bookmark dynamically updated pages (eg those rendered through Ajax or which update very frequently or those which grab data from a database such as The Trainlain) where the URL doesn’t usually change and you usually can’t get back to the previous state. It was announced at DEMO today.
Iterasi allows you to save static images of webpages. Basically, it allows you to bookmark content which dynamically updates. This is useful if you’re having to grab data from a database and you can’t get back to that data just by typing in a certain URL. Examples I can think where this would happen would be searching libraries, fare/ticket sites or perhaps even certain governmental websites which obviously have not mastered how a site search works! The phrase ’static image’ is misleading as, providing they are the same, you can still interact with links etc. on that page.
Sites like Clipmarks are bookmarking 2.0 but iterasi is actually bookmarking 2.0 and its associated dynamic technologies.
This is a video of iterasi in action.
From this video, you can see iterasi boasts all of the standard features of a Web 2.0 bookmarking site (tagging, sharing, ability to describe bookmark etc).
The automatic bookmarking feature is clever, especially if you wish to take screen captures of constantly updating webpages (eg traffic information or Google News!) allowing it to become your own personal wayback machine.
Oh, and bookmarking isn’t called bookmarking but rather notarize (I’m not a big fans of zeds to be honest… most Brits aren’t!). I imagine that despite their reasoning, this is done to simply make it sound like an evolved form of bookmarking.
I’m not a big fan of the name which isn’t easy to remember and isn’t descriptive. I also dislike the design because grey is a bit depressing, a light blue (although cliché) would be nice. I think that the gradients which are utilised are probably unnecessary too. I’m told that after the beta, iterasi may provide several styles.
Support for iterasi will firstly be for IE and Firefox users on Windows, then expanding to OS X and finally (towards late 2008) Linux.
You might want to read Mashable’s post about this exciting new site.
Tags: web 2.0, bookmarking, iterasi
This is a really nice idea, but what happens if you’re using it to save content that is later deleted for copyright or legal reasons? Some content changes happen for a very good reason. It would be interesting to see what happens if and when such a thing arises…
@Joe: Thanks for the coverage!
@Chris at LG: In these types of cases, we have a process whereby content owners can alert us when content should be removed from our servers.
Delicious (umm I mean yahoo) should buy it. Would be nice to have this within delicious itself than to have to sign up for yet another service for it.
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