ProPublica wins Knight-Batten award for their Versionista-based app
ProPublica’s wins a prestigious Special Distinction Award for their Change Tracker, an innovative service that uses Versionista as a back-end.

Versionista featured on The Rachel Maddow Show
Watch the video of how our product was used to highlight changes to WhiteHouse.gov policy page changes.

ProPublica uses Versionista to highlight changes to WhiteHouse.gov
We’re excited that ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism newsroom, has released ChangeTracker, which lets visitors view the most recent changes to WhiteHouse.gov (and several other government sites). This service uses Versionista as a back-end. You can even “steal their code” to create your own custom RSS and other alert systems using Yahoo Pipes and Versionista.
Update: They already found a pretty interesting edit!

Versionista Launches Integrated Web Versioning; New Feature Lets Webmasters Offer Interactive Archive of All Site Pages to End-users
Today, Versionista is pleased to release a powerful new feature that allows Webmasters to easily include automated revision history into their site.
Once activated, Versionista’s integrated Web versioning automatically includes a “last revised” timestamp on every monitored page. A click on the timestamp allows visitors to interactively explore archives of previous versions, visually noting the exact words and sentences that have been added or deleted from edit to edit.
With an ever-growing demand for greater transparency, accountability, and enhanced disclosure, Versionista’s integrated Web versioning affords Web sites the ability to comprehensively engage with visitors. A public archive of any Web page’s previous versions lets visitors note changes since their last visit, and get a better sense of both the frequency and relevance of ongoing edits.
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