The Media Supermarket

Pageflakes is as customizable a service as I can think of. They provide us with the ability to creat pages, with “flakes” on them. These are rectangles with customizable content and size. We can choose any of the numerous flakes already included in their site. We have both options of having our flakes private or public for other people to see. At the same time, we can export any of the flakes and add them to our site or blog, as I did here on the sidebar. This is the feed for this blog, and you can subscribe from here.
Shortly, I’ll be making a full page consisting of my favorite flakes. Stay tuned.

I just finalized a very good deal with the owners of Talasim. This is a site that is really cool and hilarious. It collects, or rather allows users to submit all the funny ads and ridiculous communications that we see in our daily lives.
They will be having a full channel devoted to live feeds from their site to be added to the Shabablik Toolbar. At the same time a download link for the toolbar will be added on the Talasim site.
Shabablik will benefit from gaining new users and becoming more interesting through more interesting content. At the same time, Talasim will get more users, and will be “one click away” from their current users. They will have their logo on the browser screens of users all the time while they surf the Web. This will hopefully improve traffic for them.
The main strategy for this toolbar, is to gain the support of a few really interesting communities by having them featured as the main content contributors. Each channel will be focusing on their own specialty, and Shabablik will be an aggregator and anchor to get more users, and communities interconnected.

A while ago, I have discussed a new model of making and sharing toolbars, which was through the new “Viewbar” developped by Agloco (A GLobal COmmunity)
So many people are trying to distribute it as much as they can, to ensure a bigger share of the pie.
I have also started distirbuting it, and it has become one of my main focuses, especially with two other toolbars developed and in the process of distribution.
I’m excited to see how it will look like and how people will react to it. Although it is scheduled for release in March, and we are in March, it still not known exactly when it will be out.
As Brian, from the development team mentions in the company blog, “I know that the Viewbar will not be released in the first half of March. Our tech lead flew to Shanghai this morning to work directly with our six engineers there.”
I’m sure the guys are really working hard, now that they got the whole world watching them!
I’ll update you with any news.
If you’re not familiar with this product, you can check out this summary. Make sure you sign up fast, and tell your friends. It’s free, and i hope it’s profitable.