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Social bookmarking has been around for years, with companies like Delicious successfully creating sites where online communities collect and share links to their favorite web pages. Iterasi has come out with a slick-looking evolution of that idea, now available in private beta if you want to sign up.

Instead of just saving links, you use Iterasi to save all of the information on a page, including images and links, a process it calls “notarizing.” Log in to your Iterasi account and you can access the actual page. In the future, you’ll also be able to have the site to automatically notarize a page based on a pre-set schedule. You can also search the text within a page (which you can’t do with a screenshot image). I expect one group I know pretty well — bloggers — to start using this service to take screenshots of large web sites, like Google services or Facebook, in order to more easily keep track of feature changes.

To use Iterasi, you need to install its toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer. When you’re on a page you want to save, you click on the notarize button that Iterasi adds to your browser. The company also lets you embed widgets of these images onto other pages, which I may start doing on VentureBeat if I ever find a good reason to.

The Vancouver, Wash. company has raised $1 million from angel investors.

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.