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Technologies
Last profiled 23rd May. Profile will be refreshed on 20th June.Operating Systems and Servers
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"Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996."
Document Standards
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"The website claims XHTML Transitional status. XHTML 1.0 Transitional is the same as HTML 4.01 Transitional, but follows XML syntax rules. It supports everything found in XHTML 1.0 Strict, but also permits the use of a number of elements and attributes that are judged presentational, in order to ease the transition from HTML 3.2 and earlier. These include center, u, strike, and applet."
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"XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. "
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"This page uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content."
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"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."
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"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML "
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"The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook"
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"A way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies."
Document Encoding
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"UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages."
Syndication Techniques
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"A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents."
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"A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts."
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"Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software."
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"Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema"
Content Management System
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"WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability."
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"BuddyPress is Social Networking, the WordPress way."
Widgets
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"Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The website uses various plugins from WordPress to provide additional functionality. Some of them may be listed here."
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"Allows users to Like items they find on the web, similar to how you Like items within Facebook."
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"Creates Gravatar Profiles on the site."
JavaScript Libraries and Functions
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"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."
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"jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX."
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"The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another."
Content Delivery Network
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"Contains content that may be hosted on the WordPress Grid Hosting CDN."
Analytics and Tracking
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"Tells owners of The website how many people are visiting the site, where they are coming from and whats most interesting to them."
Frameworks
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"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."
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