- Pageflakes
Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to
My Yahoo! ,iGoogle ,Netvibes andMicrosoft Live . 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.us bookmarks,Flickr photos, social networking tools likeFacebook ,YouTube ,Twitter , 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, CA. 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. [cite web | url = http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/30/benchmark-invests-in-pageflakes-ajax-desktop-war-heats-up/ | title = Benchmark Invests in Pageflakes: Ajax Desktop War Heats Up | accessdate = 2007-06-05]
Underlying Technology
Some of the major components used for building the framework are
ASP.NET 2.0, including theASP.NET AJAX components, and JavaScript. However developers building flakes can use a more diverse toolset. [cite web | url = http://www.pageflakes.com/devdoc/devdocp1.html | title = Building flakes for Pageflakes | accessdate = 2007-06-05]See also
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iGoogle
*Live.com
*Yahoo.com
*Netvibes * [http://www.pageflakes.com/developers/ Flake Developers]
* [http://www.pageflakes.com/company/presscenter Pageflakes Press Center]References
External links
* [http://www.pageflakes.com Pageflakes Homepage]
* [http://www.pageflakes.com/company Pageflakes Company Page]
* [http://www.pageflakes.com/Community/ Gallery of all available Flakes]
* [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2276749,00.asp PC Magazine article from March 2008]
* [http://www.ktvz.com/Global/SearchResults.asp?vendor=wss&qu=pageflakes KTVZ News Channel 21 from March 2008]
* [http://www.dropthings.com/ Drop Things] An open source portal created by Omar AL Zabir (co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes) for a book he wrote on the subject.
* Omar wrote a book "Building Web 2.0 Portal using ASP.NET 3.5" where he shows how to build such a portal that can withstand millions of hits. He talks about many performance, scalability and production challenges that are important for any high volume website. The book is available from [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510503/ O'Reilly] and also at [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596510500 Amazon]
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