Pageflakes:Netvibes Competitor?? March 13, 2007
Posted by Pavithra in AJAX, Pageflakes, Start-ups, Technology Companies, WebSTorm, web 2.0.2 comments
Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page.The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search,weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos and user-created modules.You can choose to share a certain page with invited visitors or the world.Any number of pages can be added.It offers a scrollable view.Also the layout of each page is customizable.
You can add feeds,flakes to your page.Feeds based on Several categories are available.Pageflakes is one of a few sites that put RSS feeds, YouTube videos, web search, a to-do list and other modules in one place.You can also add your own feed.
Is the Flakes editable?
Yes, ofcourse.If you are adding Pageflakes News in your page,you are free to mention how many number of posts should appear,whether tooltip and description about the post is required or not.In the case of Flickr flake,you can view,the photos by giving the tag name or the most recent or intersting one.Single picture or 9 pictures can be viewed at a time.
May i know the upcoming events in my city?
Yes,you can also know the upcoming events in your city by giving your Zipcode(US only).Even here you can specify the number of events to be diplayed per page.
Email configuration:
You can also configure your email account.It supports several account types.
Search Offered:
Google search.
People behind it:
Dan Cohen, CEO -Prior to Pageflakes he was the head of My Yahoo!, Yahoo’s personalized homepage, and before that led product management for personalized products at Google, including the Google Personalized Homepage.
Christoph Janz, CPO-Back in 1997, Christoph co-founded German Internet startup DealPilot.com, one of the first comparison shopping services which got funded by Bertelsmann and has later been acquired by Shopping.com.
Omar AL Zabir, CTO-He developed projects for companies like HP, Bank of America, Citibank and other companies in the US, Australia, Germany and Bangladesh
Ole Brandenburg, CMO-He held marketing positions for several other Internet companies including Jamba, which he co-founded, Dooyoo and myBet.
Uday Walia, CIO-He was co-founder and CTO of GetSmart, JobFlash and Done.com, three VC-funded Bay Area startups. Prior to that, Uday held executive and managerial positions with at Wells Fargo Bank and Nortel.
Storm Analysis:
In the startpage market, the independent companies seems to be innovating much faster than the grown ups.So, could Google or Microsoft be interested in acquiring a startpage, despite having their own products ?
