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.

You can now embed web pages into your Protopage using the new web page widget.
Add the widget to your page by using the bottom toolbar, then click the edit button to enter the address of the web page you wish to embed (e.g. http://www.example.com).
You may optionally set a vertical offset or horizontal […]

Protopage now supports two ‘widget positioning’ modes: Free positioning and Gravity.

Free positioning, which Protopage has had since launch, means that you can position widgets anywhere on the screen, and even allow widgets to overlap.
Gravity is a new positioning mode which will help you tidy up your page if you have a lot of widgets. Gravity […]

You can now upload as many photos as you want to your Protopage.

Images will automatically be resized to the size of the photo widget - this reduces the size of the photos to ensure that your page loads quickly.
To upload an image, go to the toolbar, choose ‘Add widget’, and then choose ‘Add photo’. Then […]