Iterasi, a social bookmarking site that lets you save the contents of any page

Eric Eldon | January 28th, 2008

Iterasi is a social bookmarking site that lets you save the exact contents of a web page, like you can’t do using other options.

Unitl now, if I want to save a web page — let’s say page of where I’ve made an online payment on an e-commerce site — I can either take a screenshot, or save the URL of the page. Both options are somewhat problematic. Screenshots are images, and you can’t search the text within a screenshot. Links, meanwhile, often won’t take you back to the exact page you were on (the contents of www.venturebeat.com, for example, constantly change as we publish new stories).

To you use it, you sign up and install the Iterasi web browser toolbar (on Internet Explorer or Firefox). Then, when you’re on a page you want to save, click on the Iterasi “notarize” button in the toolbar — “notarize” is the company’s term for saving your page. Iterasi creates a reproduction of a page that it stores on its site. You can search the text of your saved pages on Iterasi, access JPEG or PNG images, live forms, transactions and receipts. You can also schedule automated captures of specific pages over a set period of time.

One can imagine the company making money from subscription services for heavy users, such as a fee for having thousands of saved web pages on your account.

The company, based in Vancouver, WA, will launch its service in the coming months. You can sign up here, in the meantime.

It has raised $1 million from angel investors.

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  1. January 28th, 2008
    6:07 am

    » Iterasi launches at DEMO 2008 - Silicon Florist said:

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  1. January 28th, 2008
    7:11 am

    Brian said:

    You can also save a webpage by pressing Ctrl+S or going File-> Save Page As…

    The benefit of their service seems to be that you can access it from anywhere. But, I could definitely see copyright issues… especially if you try to save something like an NYTimes article.

  2. January 28th, 2008
    7:34 am

    David P. Hamilton said:

    Copyright probably isn’t an issue if you’re making a copy for personal use.

    There’s also a perfectly workable Firefox extension called Scrapbook that does much the same thing as Iterasi, except that it stores saved pages locally. It does have the advantage of actually organizing the pages you safe for easier reference.

  3. January 28th, 2008
    5:05 pm

    Pete Grillo said:

    Thanks for your input. We think that having your important Web pages available from any computer at anytime - for both the convenience of access and the safety of a backed up service - is an important feature for our users. There are many great products out there and we invite you to give ours a try.
    pete grillo
    ceo, iterasi.com

  4. January 29th, 2008
    1:23 am

    Pete W. said:

    Other than the option to save receipts, hasn’t that already been implemented by diigo.com? What’s the difference?

  5. January 29th, 2008
    3:30 pm

    pete grillo said:

    Thanks for the question. From what we know of diigo.com, it adds a layer onto a Web page for personal annotation. We are actually the opposite of that — we save the page exactly as you see it and then store it for later retrieval.

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