Tuesday, September 15, 2009
PERPETUALLY.COM LAUNCHES “THE PERPETUAL WEB” AT TECHCRUNCH50
Perpetually.com LLC has launched its powerful web preservation software, available at Perpetually.com, which enables users to easily create private and permanent archives of any web content. The company also launched a contest to win free subscriptions to the service, for parties who sign up to the Perpetually.com Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/perpetually. In a presentation to the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today, company founder Darrell Silver said that billions of web pages are disappearing every year and billions more are changed, leaving no record of their earlier state. As an increasing amount of primary source material is online-only, this is a major problem for lawyers, businesses, web designers, corporate communications teams, advocates for transparency and anyone else that cares about the web content that represents or affects them. “We all assume that we'll be able to find anything on the web. But that's simply not true. Web content is decaying, and the information we put online is being lost forever,” Mr Silver said. “While many of the companies at the TechCrunch50 are launching products for the realtime web, Perpetually.com is launching The Perpetual Web.” Perpetually.com was chosen from over 1,000 applicants to launch on-stage at the TechCruch50 in front of more than 1,500 venture capitalists, journalists and industry leaders. The audience was shown how Perpetually.com enables users to scroll back through time to track the changes on an archived web page search historical content as easily as if they were Googling the contemporary web set up alerts to monitor changes to important websites.
Perpetually.com also announced a $21,000 giveaway of 18 free one-year subscriptions to the service – one for every year since the launch of the web. Winners will be drawn each day for the next 18 days from those who follow the company’s Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/perpetually.
For more information, contact: +1 (347) 878-1845 contact@perpetually.com http://perpetually.com/contact/
About Perpetually.com Perpetually.com allows users to easily create a private and permanent archive of any web content. The archive is browsed, searched and retrieved using Perpetually.com’s intuitive user interface. The company’s customers are businesses and individuals affected by the problem of data decay online, anyone who wants to preserve the past, understand the present or hold others to account in the future. Perpetually.com was founded by software engineer Darrell Silver in spring 2009 and is based in New York.
About TechCrunch50 Founded in 2007 by leading technology blog TechCrunch and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, the TechCrunch50 conference provides a platform for early-stage, and frequently unfunded, companies to launch for the first time to the technology industry’s most influential venture capitalists, corporations, angel investors, fellow entrepreneurs and the international media. Companies are selected to participate exclusively on merit. TechCrunch50 is supported by corporate sponsors Google, Microsoft, Bing, MySpace and Facebook, as well as venture capitalist and legal-advisory firms including Sequoia Capital, Charles River Ventures, Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Perkins Cole.