Due to popular demand, we’ve just released better support for tablets and larger smartphones, so that you have the choice between viewing the mobile version or the normal version of Protopage on your device.
We were previously automatically redirecting mobile devices and tablets to the mobile site, but we now present you with a choice when […]

We’re pleased to announce two new Twitter widgets. You can now add your own or someone else’s Twitter feed to your page by clicking the ‘Add widgets’ toolbar button and then clicking ‘Add a twitter feed’. You can also add a Twitter Search widget, which displays the latest tweets on a particular topic or search […]

We’ve just upgraded our Google Maps widget to support embedding.
If you go to a Google Map in your web browser, you can click the “Link” icon (as indicated in the image above) and then copy the embed url. Then click ‘edit’ on a Google Maps widget on your Protopage and paste this into the “Web […]

We’ve just launched a major update to Protopage, which includes brand new mobile features. Protopage Mobile has been specially optimized for dozens of mobile phones including the Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Windows Mobile 5/6, HTC and Palm.

To access it, simply visit protopage.com/mobile on your phone.

News feeds are automatically optimized for […]

We’re introducing two experimental features today - we have not enabled them by default for existing users but you can try them by following the instructions below:

News Feed Thumbnail Previews

Our news indexing system has been upgraded to provide thumbnail previews for your news feeds, in order to give your page a more exciting look. See […]

Hope you’ve all had a fantastic Easter! We’ve been conducting a number of focus groups over the last few weeks, and have made some final tweaks to the tab system. In particular, we have simplified the look of the tab bar, and created a new button to provide access to the tab sharing features.

We’ve just […]

A few of you have written in about Firefox using some extra CPU time. We’ve just released a set of tweaks that will increase performance and lower CPU usage to zero when the page is idle. We’re also working on further improvements including a new caching layer which will decrease page load times.
We also just […]

We’ve had a rapid design session, and made some changes to the interface in order to make things clearer.
The number one cause of confusion has been the new tab system. We had not made it clear that tabs migrated from the previous version of Protopage would be placed in different categories according to whether they […]

Welcome to Protopage V3. An enormous THANK YOU to our loyal users and to everyone that has written in with comments, suggestions and bug reports - your support and feedback continues to be critical in shaping the future of Protopage.
We’re pleased to announce the following brand new features:
An internal news feed reader with keyboard shortcuts […]

If you have an RSS or ATOM news feed that requires a username and password, it will now work inside Protopage.
If it is not already, please ensure the feed URL is in the following format:
http://username:password@example.com
We will also support secure http (https://) feeds when version 3 is released.