Over the past few years when the web 2.0 was boiling hot, many quite dedicated web 2.0 applications were mushrooming over the Internet. Pageflakes this name sounds little new to me, as I didn’t really keep myself following closely to try out every single web 2.0 app that ever surfaced in the Internet. But if you’ve ever used Netvibes, then you should grab the concept what Pageflakes is.
Similar to Netvibes, Pageflakes allows you to have your own account and then login to personalize your own home page that contains only the content that you’re interested. Such as you can pull those video and image contents, news and blog feeds that you like and create with your own personalized home page. Of course, besides the mentioned one, these days, there are many of such service even Google has its own, the iGoogle which works similar and also Yahoo has the MyYahoo.
Pageflake seems to have pretty poor response from the Internet users, which in March they managed to pull only about a total of 50K unique visitors from the U.S. But its rival Netvibes got about 1.4 millions in March. And now Pageflake, due to poor response, is going to die and has been officially acquired by Brad Greenspan’s Live Universe. Something like Pageflake for sure is hard to survive in the Internet, which shouldn’t be high in demand unless you’re one of the pioneer ones. Furthermore big portals are offering similar services, so most people will cling on the big ones which they will manage to use other services on one single web portal.