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!

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.