Recent Articles & Releases
Media Coverage (selection)Techcrunch: Pageflakes Blizzard Release Launches (7/19/2007) Customized
home page startup Pageflakes launched a slew of new features this
morning under what it is calling its “Blizzard” release. Among all of
the new features, the two that are important to highlight are social
networking and customizable themes on pages. Read more...
Network World, by Mark Gibbs: Pageflakes, a better homepage? (5/15/2007)
You’d
think that it would be hard to out-Google Google but that looks like
what Pageflakes has done. If you are a user of Google’s customized
homepage with its tabs and applets then you will immediately understand
what Pageflakes is doing. The only difference is that Pageflakes is
trying to do a lot more. Read more... The Scoble Show: Looking at Pageflakes, your new start page (03/02/2007) Here Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes, demonstrates his new service, which makes a killer start page. Read more...
The Next Net: Pageflakes adds Video Widgets (03/01/2007)
"Pageflakes
is getting into video. Like NetVibes, Pageflakes is a personal
startpage that lets you create your own widgets and arrange them on a
page. This week it is launching new video widgets from Google Video,
Revver, Metacafe, and others (here is a gallery), in addition to the
YouTube video widget it already had before. That means you can get
videos from multiple sites on one page."
CNet News: A closer look at Pageflakes (02/15/2007)
New
Pageflakes CEO Dan Cohen demos his company’s home page and talks with
Webware editor Rafe Needleman. Can Pageflakes compete against other
start pages like NetVibes, and Web giants like Yahoo and Google? Read more...
GigaOm: Ex-Yahoo Exec now Pageflakes CEO (01/25/2007)
Dan
Cohen, till very recently Head of My Yahoo business for Sunnyvale,
California-based web media and search company, has joined personalized
web page start-up Pageflakes as its chief executive officer, according
to our sources. Cohen left Yahoo towards the end of 2006, proving our
theory that Yahoo is the favorite farm system for start-up talent. Our
sources say he has been working with Pageflakes for a few weeks. Read more...
Web 2.0 Awards: Interview with Christoph Janz (05/25/2006)
What inspired you to create Pageflakes? Where did the idea come from? The
idea of a personalized start page itself is not new. Yahoo, Excite and
others started personalizing their portals years ago. However, thanks
to the rise of RSS, XML, APIs and AJAX
and other new developments the value proposition is now much more
compelling. It's these new developments as well as inspirations from
other sites which made us come up with the idea for creating Pageflakes. Read more... Readwrite Web: Pageflakes blurs read/write line (05/09/2006)
Pageflakes,
one of the little startups in the 'personalized start page' market, has
come out with a page publishing feature that nicely connects with my
post the other day: Web 2.0 market segment mash-ups. In that post I
noted that we're seeing a lot of market segment cross-over nowadays, in
terms of functionality and feature sets. I also made the point that
'personalized start pages' (such as Pageflakes) are designed to be a
user's private homepage on the Web for their content subscriptions and
web apps. Read more...
Web 2.0 Journal Product Review: "Pageflakes" Superior, Open-Platform Ajax Desktop (02/13/2006)
The product space of online Ajax
desktops has been growing rapidly over the last year and the
open-platform Pageflakes is one of the newest and most capable
entrants. Other Ajax
desktop products likes Netvibes and Microsoft’s Live.com have been
available for a while, and Pageflakes seems to have learned from many
of their shortcomings. Among a list of notable new features, the
inclusion of support for a full multiple-page desktop ranks high on the
list, something no other Ajax desktop does. Read more..."
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