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TownNews equips local media organizations with the digital services and guidance to transform their business models and flourish in the digital age

A simple library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

jQuery plugin for infinite scrolling.

The website supports openid single digital identity via the use of OpenID.

All Twitter's social tools, including buttons and timeline widgets.

Now you can find more of what you're looking for on Facebook and discover fun connections between people, places and things.

LiveJournal lets you express yourself, share your life, and connect with friends online.

iOS Safari instructions for mobile web apps

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, a Google-backed project designed as an open standard for any publisher to have pages load quickly on mobile devices. Google officially integrated AMP listings into its mobile search results.

End-To-End Image Solution

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is object storage with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

Cloudinary is a SaaS technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Israel. The company provides a cloud-based image and video management services.

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Websites using some type of Facebook technology.

Websites using Google technologies

Embedded videos from YouTube.

With the embedded video player you can easily add Facebook videos and Facebook live videos to your website.

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.

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

A pingback is one of four types of linkback methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

Indicates that the site provides an interface specifically for searching the document and its related resources.

By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.

Wesites using favicon rel tag

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.