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1317: 491: 91: 503: 305: 78:, email and user-created modules. Pagecasts allowed users to share their pages publicly, allowing them to share a curated page of content that would be of interest to others (in essence a widget-based precursor to pages shared through content sharing sites such as Pinterest).Pageflakes had 250,000 Flakes and over 130,000 102:. The company was initially privately funded. Balderton Capital (originally Benchmark Capital Europe) invested an undisclosed amount in May 2006. Dan Cohen was appointed CEO in January 2007. Pageflakes was acquired by LiveUniverse in 2008. 1387: 239: 1392: 266: 540: 1107: 1358: 910: 586: 166: 54:
that operated from 2005 until January 2012. The site was organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called
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Pageflakes was launched at the end of 2005. The site began in Germany, but was headquartered in San Francisco,
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components, and JavaScript. However developers building flakes could use a more diverse toolset.
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Some of the major components used for building the framework were
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Ajax
startpage
web portal
Netvibes
My Yahoo!
Myhomepage
iGoogle
Microsoft Live
del.icio.us
Flickr
Facebook
YouTube
Twitter
Pagecasts

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ASP.NET
ASP.NET AJAX
iGoogle
Live.com
Myhomepage
Netvibes
Yahoo.com
"Benchmark Invests in Pageflakes: Ajax Desktop War Heats Up"
"LiveUniverse Acquires Pageflakes"
"Building flakes for Pageflakes"
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PC Magazine article from March 2008
KTVZ News Channel 21 from March 2008
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