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- Pageflakes adding media partners and social networking
- Pageflakes is moving beyond the personal portal page. promoting branded media Pagecasts (personalized pages created with Flakes, or widgets) from USA Today, Rolling Stone, CNN, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Slate, AOL, Die Welt, Bild and others as part of its new 'Blizzard' release. Pageflakes already has more...
- Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Pageflakes adds social networking
- Business2 is reporting on the latest upgrade to Pageflakes to go live later today, which will see the personalized start-page service take its first steps towards evolving into a social network based on shared interests.For the first time, members will be able to establish a public profile and there will...
- Tags: Widgets, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Pageflakes and the rise of "metagators"
- A closer look at Pageflakes.comNew 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?
- Tags: Pageflakes
- Videos 2007-02-15
- Web Office Widgets
- Now that office software is becoming a big part of the Web landscape, were starting to see widgets (i.e. mini web apps) appear that have office functionality. The personalized start page Pageflakes has just introduced a couple of new office "flakes", which is their term for widgets. The new ones...
- Tags: RSS, Pageflakes, Intranet, Web, start page, dashboard
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
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- Netvibes for Android 1.0 (Mobile)
- Netvibes for Android is a personalized start page or personal web portal much like Pageflakes, My Yahoo, iGoogle, and Microsoft Live. Netvibes lets individuals assemble their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the web all...
- Tags: Mobile, Netvibes, Portals, Podcasts, Web Technology, Instant Messaging, Social Networking, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Software downloads 2009-12-22
- Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 1.0 (Mobile)
- By Omar AL ZabirPublished by O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510503/)If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Mobile, Microsoft ASP.NET, O'Reilly Media Inc., Stanza Bookbinder, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-02
- 'Last.fm in a Box', ad-supported music service expands its "offsite community" strategy
- CBS continues to show signs that it understands the distributed nature of the net -- and no, I'm not saying that because it's in the process of buying ZDNet's parent company CNET. Today, Last.fm (which CBS purchased in May 2007) announced a major expansion to its "offsite...
- Tags: Strategy, Advertisement, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Last.fm, Box, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Pageflakes challenges Yahoo, Google
- On Working Webware, ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware.com editor Rafe Needleman sit down with Pageflakes CEO Dan Cohen to find out about the company's personalized start page strategy and how the CEO plans to compete against Yahoo and Microsoft in the battle for the home page. Farber...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Rafe Needleman, CEO, Strategy, Management, Personal Technology
- Videos 2008-02-28
- Microhoo: Looking beyond the search war
- In the event that Microsoft ends up with Yahoo, which I view as likely, what happens to the Yahoo brand and properties. The back end, infrastructure and engineering issues can be sorted out, although nothing will be easy. Pooling engineering talent, data centers, search, ad systems, etc. can be a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Portals, Branding, Web Technology, E-mail Providers, Social Networking, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Ribbit debuts Amphibian 'voiceware'
- At Demo 08 Ribbit will take the wraps off its consumer 'voiceware' platform, code-named Amphibian. The new service turns any physical phone into a virtual phone, creating a platform for a wide variety of voice-enabled applications. Currently in private beta and generally available in the second quarter...
- Tags: Developer, Web, Phone, Mobile, Voicemail, Service, Ribbit Marketplace, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Chirp displays a social screen saver
- If you studied your ancient Web history, you may remember PointCast, which pushed Web content feeds prior to RSS to a user's screen. In its prime during 1996, PointCast had more than 200 employees, 1.5 million users, nearly $50 million in venture funding and even some revenue. By 2000, PointCast...
- Tags: PointCast, Screensaver, Greylock Ltd., Chirpscreen, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Netvibes add a social dimension to its home base
- Netvibes rolled out the latest closed beta version of its personalized portal, adding the social networking features common to the field, such as friends, status updates and profiles. Content aggregated on a users page can be shared, recommended and discussed with friends and followers a la Facebook, MySpace and Twitter....
- Tags: Network, Netvibes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Social networking prediction for 2008
- One of the pied-pipers of social networking is making some predictions about where the most talked about technology of 2007 is heading in the new year. In his blog post, Marc Canter proclaimed, "All software is about people and now all software will have social features in it." ...
- Tags: Network, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007
- Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...
- Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- $3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV; Windows Live Messenger comes to Bebo; New York Times launches personalized start page; Playboy creates social network for students
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… $3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV. In what could be the most expensive online video production to-date, "Afterworld", an animated series about a man who wakes up to find...
- Tags: Social Networking, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Network, IM, Microsoft Windows Live, New York Times Co., Microsoft Windows, TV, Playboy, MySpace, Social Networking Site, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- News to know: Facebook; Google miss; Microsoft; Bugs galore
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Google isn't perfect: Earnings fall short of expectations. Relax folks, Google isn't Yahoo.Techmeme: Facebook acquires Parakey. Reuters: Facebook acquires Net start-up Parakay. Ryan Stewart: Is Facebook going to compete with Adobe AIR?Denise Howell: I'm in ur Facebook app, slurpin' up ur feeds.New hires, datacenter investments evident in...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Dealing with Facebook time
- While on vacation the last two weeks in the Northwest, I've spent my time picking raspberries, chopping wood, herding ducks, whacking weeds and golf balls and lounging at the river.I come back to the usual massive amount of non-essential email, which I weed out with block deletes, and, interestingly, a...
- Tags: Web Technology, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics
- Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and servicesâ€"many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, SaaS, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, MySpace, Microsoft, iPhone, IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- News to know: Google Desktop for Linux; SOA done right; Why iPhone?
- Notable headlines...Mary Jo Foley: On the Web, no one knows you're a Microsoft employeeJoshua Greenbaum: A Little Transparency Could Go a Long Way: Oracle’s Opacity CrisisRobin Harris: SOA done right--the Amazon strategyDan Farber: Facebook: The rise of social applicationsRead/WriteWeb: Facebook Acquisitions: Fad or Proof of Platform Success?Business2Blogs: Pageflakes--The Social Network...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- CRM for the iPhone
- Etelos has differentiated itself by integrating its modular, on demand CRM platform with Google Apps, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Windows Live, Blackberries...and now the iPhone. Eric Berto of Etelos suggests that the ideal use for the iPhone and Etelos is "listening to iTunes while sending out a group message to your...
- Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Mobile, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
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