Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Express is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient.
Mandrill is a scalable and affordable email infrastructure service, with all the marketing-friendly analytics tools you've come to expect
Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
Open graph description entity tag
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.