Pageflakes is an
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Pageflakes is an
AjaxAJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. With AJAX, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page...
-based startpage or personal
web portalA web portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment...
similar to
NetvibesNetvibes is a multi-lingual Ajax-based personalized start page or personal web portal much like Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, Alot.com, iGoogle, and Microsoft Live. It is organized into tabs, with each tab containing user-defined modules...
, My Yahoo!,
iGoogleiGoogle , a service of Google, is a customizable AJAX-based startpage or personal web portal . Google originally launched the service in May 2005...
, and
Microsoft LiveThe following Microsoft services has been branded with the word "Live":* Windows Live, a set of services and software products mainly aimed at individuals* Microsoft Office Live, a set of services aimed at small businesses...
. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called
Flakes. Each Flake varies in content; information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast,
del.icio.usDelicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs...
bookmarks,
FlickrFlickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository...
photos, social networking tools like
FacebookFacebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and...
,
YouTubeYouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google...
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TwitterTwitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers...
, email and user-created modules. Pageflakes has 250,000 Flakes and over 130,000 Pagecasts (publicly shared pages created by users with individual URLs).
History
Pageflakes was launched at the end of 2005. The site began in Germany, but is now headquartered in San Francisco,
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. The company was initially privately funded. Balderton Capital (originally Benchmark Capital) invested an undisclosed amount in May 2006. Dan Cohen was appointed CEO in January 2007.
Underlying Technology
Some of the major components used for building the framework are
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2.0, including the ASP.NET AJAX components, and JavaScript. However developers building flakes can use a more diverse toolset.
PageFlakes had a major outage on Failure Friday 1/30/2009 as noted by CNET.
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