Page+Flakes

<< back to Web 2.0 Software =Page Flakes= Pageflakes is a personalized homepage on the Web. Your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email and much more – all on one page that you can access from anywhere. The major difference from "old-style" web portals is that these can be personalized by individuals instead of being created and managed by a central authority.

Your personal Page Flakes site can have multiple tabs organized anyway you like. Individual tabs can be kept private or published for either limited specific audiences or for everyone.

Each item of content, contained in the little boxes on your screen are called "Flakes". A Flake can contain weather information, news, photos, videos – even interactive tools like a calendar and a to-do list – and just about anything else you do on the Web at school, work and at home. These flakes can be easily be added, removed and rearranged any way you like.

In addition to a large directory of existing content and tools, flakes can include content from weblog/RSS feeds allowing it to serve a secondary purpose as an RSS/Feed Reader.

This slide shows one writers representation of Pageflakes content today versus where it may head in the future. [ Click image for larger version. ]

Other similar personalized start page services include: live.com, iGoogle, My Yahoo, Netvibes, and Protopage