Pageflakes is essentially an Ajax-based startpage that allows you to customize which flakes (what they call widgets) you want to see when you open your browser. Essentially, this here below is what can be created to act as your startpage. I've managed to just drag and drop a couple of interesting ones like flakes for RSS Feeds, Flickr and a ToDo List, which can be useful to have as the first things you want to see when you start up your browser
And the ease of plunking down the pieces you want is smooth and intuitive. Really nice out of the box experience without having to tackle too steep a learning curve on that.
And another great thing is that there are many different flakes which you can add to the startpage or even have 2 startpages if there is a need for different types of content or if you just plain ran out of page real-estate on the first one. Development of these flakes also seem to be crowdsourced so if there's a need for it and the API exists, someone (or even you!) can just develop something and add it to the big flake library seen here.
On the flip side, there is a tradeoff here is that you won't be able to stuff a lot of information on one page and you'll probably be spoilt for choice due to the loads of flakes you could choose from but its a nice thought for them to have added in the ability to have multiple pages.
All in all, its a pretty neat site so go check it out : PageFlakes
[Props to Chi Howe for the introduction]
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