Dan Taylor looks at the archived web and the issues posed with dynamic content. Dan has this to say about iterasi:
One service which probably isn’t about to revolutionise the wholesale archiving of the web, but may just be a portent of the future, is iterasi. Originally unveiled at DEMO in January and launched as a public beta last month, iterasi is a dynamic bookmarking service which, in their own words, “makes it simple for any Web user to save the dynamically generated pages that are increasingly becoming the bulk of today’s Web experience”. The service works by means of a browser plug-in (IE 7 or Firefox 2, but currently PC only - although they confirmed by e-mail that they’re working on a Mac-compatible version) which enables you to “notarize” any page - saving it to your iterasi account, complete with the description and tags of your choosing, from where it can be viewed, emailed and embedded. Below is a “notary” of the BBC homepage, captured at 9:07 this morning. (See Dan’s post for the BBC page he embedded. I can’t embed it here. Tumblr has limited capabilties for embedding images in the text field of a post.)
I think it’s a fantastic service and can’t wait for the Mac-compatible plug-in so I can fully integrate it with my online life. Whether it marks the start of a more nuanced approach to capturing the dynamic web, only time will tell. The smart money, as ever, is on Google.
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