Kirk Ouimet, the creator of YouGetSignal has kindly allowed me to use data from his system to add value to the builtwith.com technology and SEO report.

Kirk’s project is a very well written website that provides a number of network tools and gadgets, including visual trace route, port forward testing and reverse IP domain checker.

The domain checker is the functionality that has been added to builtwith.com, it gives the user information regarding the amount of other domains that are hosted on a server, Kirk’s explanation of what this means is a good read.

Check it out at BuiltWith.com. Thanks Kirk!

BuiltWith.com got a small mention in Australian Business Magazine, BRW (Business Review Weekly) in the article “Caught in Web 2.0 - Low start-up costs for web 2.0 mean just about anyone can make money.”

And the small mention -

Thanks BRW!

BuiltWith.com now contains support for Open Calais, a webservice that provides semantic meta data information. The current implementation showcases the capabilities of Calais.

Check out this new feature at http://builtwith.com

BuiltWith.com now lists related sites, provided by Google Social Graph API - this information lists linked sites that you may also wish to profile!

A great service from the big G!

Builtwith.com has had a bit of a make over! The new look hopes to give a more professional and technical feel to the site.

Also included in this version are some basic tests for SEO techniques used on a site, which is compiled into a handly table, as well as an SEO score connected to the result -

 An SEO score has also been added and report processing is now much simpler (no more accounts required).

Also available is a seven page case study into another site we run called Global Surfari, the PDF is available from the homepage at http://builtwith.com

BuiltWith

Drag (not click) the above hyperlink into your browsers bookmark bar (normally below where you put the URL) and whenever you come across a site you want to run through builtwith.com, simply click it!

Too easy! Learn more about Bookmarklets at wikipedia.

You can now put your BuiltWith.com mini-profile onto your website, blog or whatever you want to call it. To see what it looks like is easy, check the side bar on this very blog to see the widget in action. It was developed at widgetbox.com which is very handy website for building widget tools.

Electronic communications over secure networks in the early hours of the morning, phone calls in the middle of the night and secret meetings at undisclosed locations in London, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Paris and the Gobi Desert. Name a city or a desert, we probably had a meeting there. And the result? We’ve managed to get some great new functionality on the site.

St. Pauls - City of London

Who is Hosting this is a great tool which returns exactly what is says on the tin, and now its embedded in the right hand bar of BuiltWith.com results. Thanks to the guys there for creating the API and letting me hook it up.

In all its glory

Actually we didn’t have any secret meetings, just a couple of emails back and forward but that would be a boring blog entry wouldn’t it? Check the WHT blog for their take and their forthcoming API.

Hi and thank you for subscribing to the BuiltWith blog, there are apparently 108 subscribers, so I’ll be careful what I write from now on.It’s amazing how the ideas you think that are going to “make it” fizzle out whilst the ones that you don’t really expect to take off do. BuiltWith.com honestly came out of browsing a web site one day and thinking “I wonder what this website is built with“.

New Feature - Technology Information

Today a new feature has been released which provides a bit more information for the technologies listed on the site. Instead of taking you directly to the homepage of the technology, an interim page has been developed which lists popular sites using the technology as well as a couple of other technologies that have been tagged in the same area.

The popular sites list doesn’t come from the most requested sites on BuiltWith but rather an Alexa Top 100 list. The ‘most profiled’ list appears to have been abused by some optimistic people trying to get sites onto the homepage of BuiltWith.com (hence the removal of the tag cloud).

See the screenshot below of how the Google Analytics technology page looks -

See it for yourself here.

Advertising

The (what I thought was brilliant) system of getting advertises to bid for spots on the top of each page has ended. I made sure that your accounts had reached zero dollars before ending the featured content advertising.

The reason behind this is I am able to get more revenue using Google Adsense - if you can’t beat them, join them. However, if you want a custom advertising solution feel free to contact me at gary@builtwith.com.

BuiltWith.com Offices Window View

Peace! From sunny Australia.

BuiltWith has launched a web service for developers interested in consuming BuiltWith.com data.

The web service provides exactly the same information as a typical query on the website but in a nice accessible XML format.

Learn more about the BuiltWith.com API.

Expect some libraries to be available shortly. If you create a programming library to access BuiltWith data and would like to share it please reply to this post! Thanks.