PageFlakes

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Current revision as of 10:22, 28 January 2011

MyYahoo! combines different parts of Yahoo! and the Web into one place.

Main purpose

Pageflakes allows you to make your own mashup homepage. You can easily add content to your homepage by using "Flakes", which are gadgets and widgets that you can put on your page.

Pageflakes allows you to add many popular Flakes like Facebook, News Search, YouTube, Twitter, Blog, RSS and etc.

Useful information

MyYahoo! options

Video tutorials for this tool you can see here Pageflakes tutorial.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Easy to use
• Possibility to add different RSS feeds
• Sharing apps
• Customize Themes and Layout
• Good searching options
• Supports widgets

Cons

• There are advertising Flakes on the page

References

• http://company.pageflakes.com/aboutus

• http://forums.pageflakes.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6&sid=cf3c6e41c8d9d3530ac5036b8a2b19f9

Tool accessibility test (28 July 2010)

Server Response Time test performed from Seattle, WA / Munich, Germany / Brisbane, Australia : 0.329 sec / 0.760 sec / 1.213 sec

Server Response Time Scale: Less than 0,1 = Optimal; 0,1 - 1 = Acceptable; 1 - 4 = Noticable but tolerable delay; 4 - 8 = Bearly tolerant delay

This tool has no help included on the tool's webpage (link): http://company.pageflakes.com/tutorials

There is no possiblity of changing the type or size of fonts in the tool (it can be done only as a browser functionality).