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that operated from 2005 until January 2012. The site was organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes. Each Flake varied in content; information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast,

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, 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 Pagecasts.

History

Pageflakes was launched at the end of 2005. The site began in Germany, but was headquartered in San Francisco,

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. 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.

Underlying Technology

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components, and JavaScript. However developers building flakes could use a more diverse toolset.

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PC Magazine article from March 2008KTVZ News Channel 21 from March 2008
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History

Underlying Technology

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