September 2009
3 posts
History in a Snapshot
It’s been interesting to see what our first users value in Perpetually. When we started our focus was entirely on capturing the web at a moment in time and reflecting it back for the user exactly as it was, HTML, CSS and all.
But in the last couple weeks a bunch of folks asked to see screenshots of their archives, in addition to full-text searching and browsing. Since we were already...
5 - 8% of the Web Disappears Every Year
When I started looking into online data decay in January I was surprised to learn there was no reliable source of analysis on the subject. So I researched it myself. These findings seem an appropriate article for our first (non-TechCrunch50) blog post on The Perpetual Web. Estimating the amount of information that disappears due to data decay is difficult because there’s no single...
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Launch Notes From TechCrunch50 2009
Just over a week ago we launched as a finalist in TechCrunch50. Have a look at our demo video. TechCrunch50 is a PR machine, designed from start to finish to launch new companies, show off sponsors and further define TechCrunch as a market leader. After a month of work, rehearsals and the event itself we learned some lessons that will help our business immensely and may prove useful for anyone...