Server Information
Yahoo Site Explorer
The website has been registered at Yahoo Site Explorer.
nginx
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a free, Debian derived Linux-based operating system, available with both community and professional support.
Varnish
Varnish is a web accelerator / reverse proxy caching server.
Content Management Systems
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including The website.
Frameworks
Shockwave Flash Embed
The website contains Adobe Flash content embeded without the use of JavaScript.
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Advertising
Google Adsense
A contextual advertising solution for delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages.
Analytics and Tracking
Google Analytics
Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers.
Optify
Optify marketing software enables B2B lead generation through search engine optimization, Twitter for business, and out-of-the-box reporting.
JavaScript Libraries
Facebook for Websites
Allows a user to make a website more sociable and connected with integrations from the hugely popular Facebook website.
Facebook SDK
JavaScript SDK enables you to access all of the features of the Graph API via JavaScript, and it provides a rich set of client-side functionality for authentication and sharing. It differs from Facebook Connect.
Twitter Platform
The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another.
jQuery
JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
Audio/Video Media
YouTube
Embedded videos from YouTube.
Widgets
Facebook Like
Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook.
Twitter Tweet Button
Official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared.
Facebook Like Box
The use of a fan page Like box Facebook page integration.
Aggregation Functionality
Atom
Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds very similar to RSS.
Document Information
XHTML Strict
The website claims XHTML strict. XHTML Strict is the same as HTML 4.01 Strict but follows XML guidelines. See the link for more information.
Meta Description
The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.
OpenSearch
The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications.
Javascript
JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses JavaScript.
RDF
The website implements links to RDF documents. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) integrates a variety of applications from library catalogs and world-wide directories to syndication and aggregation of news, software, and content to personal collections of music, photos, and events using XML as an interchange syntax.
Open Graph Protocol
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook
Encoding
UTF-8
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.