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"[T]ools like Versionista are making it easier still to spot alteration over time." -- The Economist
"Beyond the gotcha value, there are other very useful applications for [Versionista]. You can use it to monitor prices on a product
page. You can keep an eye on a competitor's site for changes relevant to your business, or for additions to their news page. -- CNET
"John McCain's campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new
automated online tracking service called Versionista." -- Wired
"Versionista helps to promote accountability by giving activists the ability to see when politicians have changed the language of
their campaign promises and policy statements." -- ars technica
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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.
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, legal professionals, and activists.
- Versionista gives a "big picture" visualization of the evolution of a site, particularly one that has multiple editors, bloggers,
or outside contributors.
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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November 3rd, 2008 We just wrote a summary of interesting edits to the Obama and McCain sites. Find it here.
Posted in McCain campaign, Obama campaign 
October 22nd, 2008 Florida replay? McCain is looking for law students and concerned citizens…
Posted in McCain campaign
September 24th, 2008 Another recent Slate.com piece highlighted more changes to candidates’ Web sites caught by Versionista, noting, particularly, edits on Internet privacy on Obama’s Technology page. This latter edit caused quite a bit of stir online, particularly with a Slashdot reference. The Obama campaign responded as noted in this Wired article.
Posted in Media, Obama campaign
September 24th, 2008 A nice summary of Versionista from ABC News Science and Technology blog.
Posted in Media
September 11th, 2008 Palin did actually appear at this New Mexico rally. Not sure, then, why reference to her is removed the day after?
Posted in McCain campaign
September 11th, 2008 Deletions from Pelosi’s Security page and the removal, from whitehouse.gov, of a link to the Hurricane Katrina section both raise questions of timing.
Posted in Other political
September 11th, 2008 We didn’t realize until now that the McCain site linked to Versionista again. They were highlighting edits to Obama’s Social Security page.
More notably, another use of Versionista by the McCain site garnered some international press. Their highlight of changes to Obama’s Urban Policy page, and the deletion of reference to a Foreclosure Prevention Fund, was mentioned in The Scotsman, The Press and Journal, and The Spectator.
Posted in McCain campaign, Media
September 5th, 2008 Slate.com published many, many interesting Versionista edits. If you’re interested to see recent edits to the political sites, check the Slate article for notable before-and-after comparisons. (Note that we have a new logo in Slate… you will be seeing it here as soon as we get the new site design in place.)
The Slate piece was used as a basis for this Dutch article. Perhaps related, we also got another mention in CNET.
Posted in Media
August 29th, 2008 That was fast! The Sarah Palin for Governor site is no more. (Fortunately, we have copies.) Here is her issues page.
Posted in McCain campaign
August 28th, 2008 Will Tom Ridge be McCain’s VP pick? Or maybe not?
In any case, it is certainly peculiar that former Governor Ridge’s name was removed from a McCain PA rally scheduled for this Saturday!
Posted in McCain campaign
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