Pageflakes Press
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Official Press Announcements (selection)
Pageflakes launches Blizzard (7/19/2007)
Pageflakes named 'cool vendor' in Web 2.0 by Gartner Group (04/10/2007)
Pageflakes launches the Ultimate Collection of Universal Video Widgets (03/07/2007)
Dan Cohen named CEO of community-driven personalized Homepage Pageflakes (01/30/2007)
Free the Flakes! Pageflakes offer Widgets to go (01/18/2007)
Pageflakes releases 'Mini Word' and 'Mini Outlook' (12/20/2006)
Pageflakes gets a Facelift - and much more (10/25/2007)
Pageflakes strengthens Executive Team with the Appointment of Technology Veteran Uday Walia (09/30/2006)
Pageflakes wins best Start Page award - again (09/01/2006)
Pageflakes Launches Full Fledged RSS Reader (08/13/2006)
Benchmark backs Pageflakes (06/01/2006)
Pageflakes introduces Sharing and Publishing Features for personalized Start Pages (05/10/2006)
It's Snowing Flakes: New Features introduced (03/06/2006)
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. Read more...
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...