Pageflakes "Blizzard" Release

The waiting is over, Blizzard is there! First of all, many, many thanks to all users who sent in feature requests and who participated in our private beta. We listened carefully and tried to implement as many of your suggestions as possible. And now, without further ado, let's have a look at what's new!

Surface Beauty and Deep Down Goodness

We definitely tarted things up a bit (as you’ll see) but more importantly made it much easier for both beginners and experienced Pageflakers to get to their stuff. We’re calling it One-Button Personalization.

Click the big round Pageflakes button to add new Flakes, personalize your pages, tweak your (new) Personal Profile or account settings, or explore Pagecasts. If you can use an iPod, you can use Pageflakes too. ;-).

Take (or Make) a Really Good Look

For the first time ever, we’ve added really cool, flexible Themes that you can apply independently to each of your pages. There’re nifty pre-cooked color scheme Themes available along with fun user-created ones like “Grass” and “Pink Pong”. The cool part is that you can make them your own or create new themes from scratch. You can change almost every element, including uploading your own pic to use as a background or header. If you created a cool new theme, go ahead and submit it. If we like it, we'll add it to the Themes Gallery that is available to all users!

Get Up Close & Personal

Now every Pageflaker can enjoy your mug as much as your momma does. Fill out your new Personal Profile and add as much (or as little) information as you want others to see. Profiles are great for getting your story straight interests and information out there, getting acquainted with other people and connecting with friends.

If you've found someone who shares your interests or who you like, add him or her as a Favorite. Other users will then see on your Profile that you're connected.

More Flakes!

There’s now an unbelievable 240,000  Flakes (give or take) in our Flake directory. If you still can't find what you're looking for, build your own Flake! The new Anything Flake lets you create your own Flake by entering text, adding images and pasting HTML code using a convenient WYSIWYG editor. That means if you know how to use Word, you can use this thing. Advanced users can use the Flake in many cool ways, for example to turn Flash widgets from other sites into Flakes.

One more thing on Flakes: we’ve upgraded our RSS Flake to a nifty Multimedia Flake that can serve up any sort of media your favorite blogger can dish out. Pics, podcasts, video, and audio are all now supported in the mix. Just add an RSS feed URL in the Browse Flake area. The Flake will automatically detect if the feed contains multimedia content and will present it in the right format.

Grab a Pagecast!

For those who aren’t familiar with Pagecasts, they’re user pages that have been shared with selected other users (Group Pagecasts) or made public to the world (Public Pagecasts). What's new is that you can now easily add Public Pagecasts to your own tabs. Now all your favorite Pagecasts are only one click away. You can keep track of them easily, and see updates in real-time – this has been requested by many users.

Another frequent user request was the ability to get a copy of a Public Pagecast which you can then modify, and the new Blizzard release allows you to do just that: If you copy a Public Pagecast as a snapshot, it is addedto your own tabs like a template and you can edit it to your heart’s content.

Pagecasting goes Mainstream

Until now, most of the Pagecasts have been created by normal users like you and me. Now the mightiest media companies have started to Pagecast as well! We've partnered with USA Today, Rolling Stone, CNN, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Slate, AOL, Die Welt, Bild and other major U.S. and international media outlets to bring you Pagecasts with the best content from these guys.

Mac, No Longer Cheezy

Last but definitely not least, we added much-needed and requested Safari support! Nuf said?

We hope you love the new features as much as we loved bringing them to you. For more information, also check out our What's New page. Keep that feedback and those requests coming! Please enjoy.