The speed at which technology progresses never seizes to amaze me.
Not more that 3 or 4 months ago I was looking at PageFlakes. I remember thinking to myself "here another one of these Web 2.0 wanna-be's".
Everyone seemed to be getting into the "AJAX" band-wagon and all kind of websites were popping up and down their interpretation Web 2.0.
Today, I once again decided to take a look at PageFlakes only to be very pleasantly surprised at the progress they have made in such a short period of time.
To be quite honest, I still do not see the "real value" it gives the consumer - take my mom for instance, will she ever find this useful? - Uh, nah. I don' think so.
The technology behind it is absolutely cool, don't get me wrong, but I would like to learn and understand what their business model is really all about. How do they plan on monetizing it? Do you know? If so, drop me a line.
So far, it does not seem to be saturated with ads, which I like, but who know how long that will last.
What is also interesting is the fact that Dan Cohen, until just recently Head of My Yahoo business for Sunnyvale, California-based web media and search company, has joined PageFlakes as the new Chief Executive Officer. Also interesting is the fact that Mr. Cohen was with Google before moving to Yahoo.
Would it be safe to predict that we are going to see My Yahoo service users attracted to PageFlakes?
Are we going to see PageFlakes become a "social network" of sorts?