Versionista monitors Web sites that you specify for edits. Our Web-based service records every change, clearly highlighting added or deleted words and sentences.

You can view multiple generations of edit histories for every page on a site. At the same time, filtering eliminates information overload by tracking only content that matters.

Comprehensive competitive intelligence

Versionista was designed by PhDs for the rough-and-tumble world of today's Web.

• Every site edit, version, and deletion is "set in stone" by Versionista on an hour-by-hour basis.

• Precise historical mapping of a Web site's edits, including "scrubbing" of potentially compromising information, is a competitive advantage to journalists, campaigns, corporations, and activists.

• Versionista gives a "big picture" visualization of the evolution of a site, particularly one that has multiple editors, bloggers, or outside contributors.

How it works

A side-by-side comparison and multiple other views let you see "before and after" versions of every monitored page. We highlight what text has been added, deleted, or moved. Versionista will keep up to 25 versions per page. You can "rollback" in time to see older versions.

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Our blog (rss) A few examples... (Note: we are politically agnostic.) August 27th, 2008 Why, oh why, is the term “August 3, 2008″ in the top 10 of the most searched for terms on the NY Times… for several weeks running now? And several weeks AFTER August 3rd! Posted in Media August 20th, 2008 Going to the Democratic convention? Don’t plan to go by rickshaw, apparently. Posted in Other political August 18th, 2008 Minutia warning! There is a 95% chance that this edit on the NYT’s The Caucus blog won’t be interesting to you! But to me it is pretty fascinating. The byline swap… “handshake” to “hug”… a streamlined summary of McCain and 9/11 on the sidebar. (I know where “handshake” came from… parts of the article were written before the meet; see this even earlier version.) Posted in Media August 18th, 2008 Significant transformation of Obama’s Social Security platform. Posted in Obama campaign August 18th, 2008 Huge overhaul of the Obama Energy page. Small addition to his Homeland Security page. Posted in Obama campaign August 17th, 2008 The Obama camp adds a Republicans section to its People page. Posted in Obama campaign August 15th, 2008 Politico links to Versionista to highlight a recent change to Cindy McCain’s biography page. Posted in Media August 14th, 2008 Vacation both before AND after the convention? Posted in Other political August 14th, 2008 With so many news blogs competing for eyeballs this cycle, an occasional breathless headline is forgivable. Posted in McCain campaign, Media August 11th, 2008 As a news aggregator primarily, Matt Drudge has ostensibly little room to advance his oft-alleged editorial bias. His tiniest edits, then, are worth examining. In the few weeks we’ve been monitoring Drudge, all’s quiet on the partisan front. That said, here, headlines become more impactful when “pro soccer team” shifts to just “soccer team”, and “American Airlines” is removed from an air rage article. A Katie Couric pull-quote replaces a stodgy headline. The qualifying “after all” is removed from a story about New Hampshire accepting “Chavez oil”. Posted in Media « Previous Entries