An update on Pageflakes
It’s again been a very long time that I wrote something here, and an even longer time that I wrote about Pageflakes or about what I’ve been doing since I left the company about a year ago. I did become a reasonably active Twitterer in the meantime though – the 140 character format is probably better suited for my literal talent! Anyway, I thought it’s time for a quick update. One of my last blog posts about Pageflakes was about my attempt to convince Mike Arrington and Pete Cashmore that Pageflakes was the Next Big Thing, my goal for 2006 as I put it (half joke, half serious). While both of them were very skeptical about the whole thing in the beginning, Pete wrote a very favorable posting about us in October 2006. Convincing Mike was more difficult but he got more and more positive over time as well, covering our 2.0 relaunch as well as release “Flurry” and “Blizzard” (thanks, Dan, for introducing a nicer release terminology!). With each of our major releases we made it easier ...