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title: 'Iterasi gets more social with RSS feeds, widgets, and public pages'
date: '2008-07-01T11:01:20-07:00'
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categories:
  - Iterasi
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  - Vancouver
  - Washington
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  - Iterasi
  - RSS
  - Vancouver
  - Washington
  - 'wayback machine'
  - Widgets
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# Iterasi gets more social with RSS feeds, widgets, and public pages

*\[Editor: Full disclosure, Iterasi is a client of mine, but I was not involved in this announcement.\]*

<http://www.iterasi.net/user/siliconflorist?format=widgetN1>Vancouver-based [Iterasi](http://iterasi.com "Iterasi"), the service that allows you to create your own personal [Wayback Machine](http://www.archive.org/web/web.php "Wayback Machine"), took a huge step forward in making its network of users more social, today, when [they announced three major additions](http://iterasi.blogspot.com/2008/06/rss-and-widgets-for-iterasi.html "RSS and widgets for Iterasi") to their offering: [public pages, RSS feeds, and widgets](https://www.iterasi.net/user/siliconflorist "Silicon Florist on Iterasi").

[Josh Lowensohn at Webware broke the news](http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9980994-2.html "Iterasi on Webware"):

> Web page archiving tool **[Iterasi](http://www.iterasi.com/)** is getting a small but important update Tuesday morning. Users can now share their stream of archived pages with others as an RSS feed, letting anyone view their saved items either directly in their browser or in a feed-capturing tool like [Google Reader](http://reader.google.com/) or desktop e-mail clients.

In my opinion, these seemingly innocuous changes actually mark a decided change in Iterasi’s stance. With these features, Iterasi moves from being an interesting **personal** service toward becoming a valuable **social** service. And by embracing features that allow me to distribute my saved pages to a much, much wider audience, they gain the benefit of more people encountering their service.

I have found a great deal of value in being able to save pages for myself. But now that I have the option of sharing pages with folks? It opens a whole new realm of use for me. Like a more typical social bookmarking service.

Fringe benefits abound. With RSS feeds and widgets, Iterasi just increased its exposure exponentially. I’ve added the widget to this post and I’ll likely add it to the blog (once the Mac version is out and I can use the service regularly.) And, I’m adding the RSS feed to my lifestreaming services, like [FriendFeed](http://friendfeed.com/turoczy "Rick Turoczy on FriendFeed") and [Strands](http://beta.strands.com/turoczy "Strands").

What’s more, by launching public pages, Iterasi has the potential to rapidly increase its online footprint for search engines and the like—like any other public-facing social network service.

Now, it’s not all rainbows and unicorns. As with any new feature on a BETA product, there are some rough spots and some nice-to-haves that didn’t make the cut. There are some areas over which I would like to have control, like skinning the widget and dealing with the publishing function.

But as I’ve mentioned, I see this release as less about “features” and more about “vision.” It’s clear to me that Iterasi is taking a much more social stance. And that’s a very good thing.

To test drive the product, visit [Iterasi](http://iterasi.com "Iterasi"). To see the public page in action or to get the widget code, please visit the [Silicon Florist page on Iterasi](https://www.iterasi.net/user/siliconflorist "Silicon Florist on Iterasi").