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Brad Greenspan's Live Universe continues its acquisitions spree: they've bought troubled Silicon Valley startup MeeVee, we’re heard from multiple sources. This comes less than a month after they announced the acquisition of Pageflakes, another northern California startup. We do not know the acquisition price, but it is undoubtedly less thant the $25 million Meevee has raised [...]
May 1st is RSS Awareness Day! In celebration, let's start off with the best explanation of RSS ever from the folks at Common Craft. Once you understand what RSS is, you need to find your favorite aggregator. Personally, I prefer Google Reader, but I know many who swear by Netvibes, Pageflakes and Bloglines. (Here is [...]
I think the Pageflakes grab-bag approach works better for some things than others. Anyway, here are three sites that have come over my horizon recently. My colleague Karen Smith-Yoshimura alerted us today to a page of library blogs assembled by British Library staff. I was interested to see the classification employed. There was I thinking that this blog had become much more general in recent...
Omar AL Zabir, the co-founder & CTO of Pageflakes has written about a continuous streaming Ajax proxy that solves the common problem that all Ajax proxies have, the double delay in downloading content on server first and then delivering to the browser. Omar talks about the continuous proxy that can help solve the problems. The approach [...]
Pageflakes is a nice startpage that while never gained traction or mindshare was actually the startpage that started the Startpage craze from 2006. and it was such a craze that it ended up with too many competitors at the same time. the fact that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft updated their Startpage offerings in time [...]
Gemma Cartwright writes... When I'm not writing and editing, shooting video , sitting in boring meetings or schmoozing, a big part of my job is online research. I spend ages each day reading other style blogs (and commenting), checking pageflakes and adding new feeds, updating twitter and keeping tabs on the forums . While doing my rounds, it's always lovely to discover a new blog that's linked...
Pageflakes got bought by LiveUniverse. We have Dan Cohen, Pageflakes CEO speaking at WidgetWebExpo and I'm looking forward to hearing what we'll be seeing from them next. LiveUniverse acquires Pageflakes, creates personalized media pages In a statement, the companies said...
Reflection on “LMS 2.0 - Engaging Learners Using More Advanced Techniques and the Odd Mash-up inside Moodle” by Jason Hando (K12Online07) Jason really got me thinking out of the “Moodle-box” with this excellent presentation. I’ve long wanted to use Pageflakes for my students, setting up some “widget-type” games. The thing is that I really want to [...]
I have to say to all you wannabes trying to really cover a conference or provide ways for attendees to follow what's going on, Brent Schlenker has really raised the bar. Check out the Pageflakes page below: Brent used Pageflakes...
In the movie Gladiator, Maximus Decimus Meridias is quoted as saying, What we do in life echoes in eternity . Now that LiveUniverse has acquired PageFlakes, I’m modifying that expression to be What PageFlakes Does In Life Echoes In A LiveUniverse . This article is about the acquisition. PageFlakes is a custom RSS aggregation web site that is a direct competitor of Netvibes and...
In the movie Gladiator, Maximus Decimus Meridias is quoted as saying, What we do in life echoes in eternity. Now that Live Universe has acquired PageFlakes, I’m modifying that expression to be What PageFlakes Does In Life Echoes In A Live Universe. This article is about the acquisition. PageFlakes is a custom RSS aggregation web [...]
Pageflakes has been absorbed at a time when its style of services is being offered by major Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live.
LiveUniverse , the online media firm operated by Brad Greenspan, has made another small acquisition: it has bought the troubled online personalized homepage firm Pageflakes . The transaction was a combination of cash and stock, but further terms were not disclosed. Recently LU bought the online video site Revver. Pageflakes was launched at the end of 2005. The site began in Germany,...
The acquisition combines one of the fastest-growing global media companies with Pageflakes' industry-leading personalization, widget and content aggregation technologies. The deal is highly complementary for both companies in terms of talent, technology and operations. It brings together Internet visionary, social networking pioneer and entrepreneur Brad Greenspan, with veteran ex-Google and...
