Exclamation Interview: Pageflakes’ Ole Brandenburg
Ole Brandenburg, co-founder of Pageflakes, stopped by LaunchSquad’s office the other day and sat down for the first ever Exclamation Interview. We’re still working out some of the kinks in the presentation (like some better lighting and sound), but the story’s well worth hearing. Ole has just moved to San Francisco from Australia and he’s helping run a Germany-based company with development folks in several Asian countries. Maybe this is why Pageflakes is so compelling to Ole — providing an online home no matter what continent you’re on.
Seems like 2007 will be an interesting year in the world of Ajax home pages, lots of players and it’s certainly not clear how big a market this will be. Web Worker Daily ran a nice piece this week reviewing several of the start page offerings out there including Google, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Protopage, and Flash-based yourminis.
One thing that is clear is that RSS is playing a major role with many of these services behind the scenes. At LaunchSquad, we’ve been closely involved with RSS through our work with our clients NewsGator and Pheedo and the increasing popularity of these start pages is a good sign of the growing influence and importance of RSS as a way to move and share information.
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Comments (4 Responses)
This is really good to see , how people in 4 continents are working round the clock to make a great company all together.
The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)
mouly
Posted on January 25th, 2007 at 10:49 pm.
Wow!! Cool post. Love the story, appreciate the idea and the sound was pretty loud and fun.