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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:53:43 +0000

It’s interesting-if memory serves me correctly (not a given!) is there a pay version of a site like this that will show the images of a webpage over time, at least those images which a search engine has been willing to cache?

Jeanne-I think the RSS idea is an especially good one since it is a passive way to monitor.

This stuff is incredibly interesting to me, I’m not an archivist, but as a small business owner I think being able to study the progression that other businesses and governments have gone through can give me insight into the next area of focus for my company.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:14:28 +0000

Thanks Tom. One question – do you plan to provide notifications via RSS in the future? I feel that for the purposes I am describing in this post, email and IM are more likely to get lost in the shuffle.

I do like the idea of being able to look for specific conditions – for example I may not care as much about a change to the header image as I do about a change to the text.

By: Tom Carnell

Tom Carnell — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:01:27 +0000

Have you tried Femtoo (http://femtoo.com)? Femtoo is an advanced version of this and but ALSO has these key features:

- Monitor particular parts of a page
- Parse data and check for particular conditions (share price hit a certain amount etc)
- Premium accounts can create ‘low latency’ trackers for critical monitoring applications
- Receive notifications via email, Instant Messenger and soon SMS (I think)
- Add a ‘widget’ to any page to allow people to ‘subscribe’ to a ‘tracker’
- It uses the amazing cQuery (http://cquery.com) Server-side CSS Content Selection Engine
- You can publish ‘trackers’ to the ‘Tracker Library’ and anybody can subscribe.

tom