Posts Tagged with ‘Pageflakes’

Today marks the launch of FrostFireHive, a customizable, personal start page service.
This new service is entering a crowded arena, with competition from existing services such as iGoogle, NetVibes, and PageFlakes, all of which seem to have more features and more options than FrostFireHive currently offers.
The main goal of this free homepage service seems to be to make the process as simple and easy as possible. Will it be enough to help the service stand out though?
Company execs notified [...]

The Black Hat USA 2007 conference took place in Las Vegas over the four days of July 28 through August 2. Lots of topics and issues were covered, and lots of holes were exploited (for demonstration purposes only, of course), between all the briefings and training sessions.
One item that received a fair amount of attention was AJAX, the magical asynchronous duo that is Java and XML, employed by a great number of developers today at small startups and Internet [...]

Today, Pageflakes, the customizable web homepage service, has added a flurry of new features to their growing service. Known as the Blizzard release, the service now has social networking capabilities, themable public pages and over 240,000 possible widgets to choose from (compared with only 10,000 previously).
Pageflake users now get their own profile page which will allow them to add other users as friends and get connected with what other users are doing, similar to social networks such as MySpace and [...]

We’re in an era of immense media saturation, so much so that millions of Netizens understandably opt to filter the countless feeds available down to select lists of top choices, in order to avoid a barrage of information where one would undoubtedly exist if selectivity could not be had.
We may, however, be seeing the downside of excessive filtration, at least in terms of the number of venues offering personalization. The number of these aggregation and filtration utilities is high, and [...]

It’s almost impossible to find everything you want on the web. Comments made by a couple of folks in response to a recent article (authored by myself) prove that theory handily. By the way, guys, thanks for the tips.
The comments to “What Makes a Start Page” highlighted the lack of a mention of two exceptional products I managed to overlook while researching for the piece: Protopage, one of the first Web 2.0-compliant sites out there; and Webwag, a lesser-known but [...]

Start pages have been around since the days of baud modems and cheap 28-56k dial-up access. In the early 90’s, the first thing to show up after you double-clicked on those pixilated Netscape, IE, or Mosaic icons was [most likely] a portal of some kind, loading at strenuously slow rates, giving you html in all its plain-spoken glory. Maybe with a few faint traces of basic Java thrown in.
The Web was a geeks-only arena at the time, to put it [...]

Pageflakes, the popular AJAX startpage has just relaunched with a host of new features, as well as a spanking new customizable design!

Community Site: A new Pageflakes community environment which allows you to search, submit, rate and discuss flakes and do much more. Get more widgets or flakes to beef up your startpage!
Page Templates: Dozens of pre-created page templates for topics like work, family, sports, finance, entertainment, education and many more. Now it takes just a mouse click to add a [...]