I have always been fascinated by online start pages. In fact, some of the earliest articles on this blog were about them.

I have been a member of too many of them to count over the last couple of years. Before they called them that, I had some on places like Yahoo! and even old-school AOL (man that brings back some bad memories). There is just something about being able to bring all the information that is important to you together in a single place. Nowadays its almost required if you are an avid blog reader.

I have always been fascinated by the different approaches, technologies, and ui styles so a while back I contacted a couple of the older start pages out there: Netvibes and Pageflakes. Unfortunately, the Netvibes guys are too swamped right now to finish the interview we started, but I am happy to announce that Ole Brandenburg, one of the co-founders of PageFlakes agreed to “sit down” with me and answer some questions.

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Last week I started a new section called Design Breakdown. This week I am pleased to announce the next “new thing” for the site, Designer Interviews.

The idea of having an interview is to get the thoughts of the true professionals out there and take their pulse on the various topics of the day. Today’s interview is with Daniel Mall (www.danielmall.com). He is a prolific designer and has worked for some of the biggest names on the web.

So without further ado…here is the interview. Read the rest of this entry »