Protopage version 3 update
Protopage version 3.0 is getting closer!
We’ve been hard at work redesigning our interface so that you can do more with your Protopage than ever before (yes, tabbed pages and an API are on their way!). Much of our time has actually been spent designing features for version 4.0 and beyond – so our version 3.0 launch will be one of many to come.
We’re still some distance from launch, but in the mean time, here are the top five things you might not know about Protopage:
1. We keep all of your data on battery backed RAID 10 disk arrays. This means that our systems will continue to function at full speed and all of your data will be safe even if we lose half of the hard disks in our arrays. In case of an even greater disaster (you know, like asteroids), we also keep off-site rolling backups.
2. We always have at least one engineer monitoring the Protopage site 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year.
3. If you lose your internet connection while you are making changes to your Protopage, your changes are retained as long as you do not close your web browser. Protopage will automatically detect and warn you that your network connection was unavailable when you tried to make a change, and will give you an option to try saving your changes again when your internet connection resumes.
4. We have received 4,164 suggestions for new features. (Thank you!!! We’re very sorry we haven’t had the chance to reply to them individually, but we greatly appreciate every single one and we agonize over them during our product design sessions.)
5. Version 3.0 of Protopage will continue to be completely free.
Thank you all for your support and for the wonderful feedback you’ve been sending us. The future of Protopage will be a product of your collective imagination!
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Can’t wait to see it, guys.
June 24th, 2006 at 2:48 am
It will be awesome.
June 24th, 2006 at 5:49 am
Cool! Looking forward to it. (was getting worried there for a while)
June 24th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Thanks a lot for your work!
Looking forward the 3.0 release….
June 25th, 2006 at 3:24 am
folks, I love Protopage soooooooo much and I’m so looking forward to the upgrade. Hey, if I had some serious money, I would donate! LOL. How do you keep it free? have a good summer. Robin
June 25th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
yay Protopage>asteroids!
June 28th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
I can’t wait for v3.0.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
You are to be complimented on your hard work and dedication, Protopage is excellent and I for one can’t imagine being without it now, great job.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:29 am
can we get a sneak peek????
June 29th, 2006 at 8:29 am
We can’t give much away until launch, but here’s a taste of the new look.
Set this as your new wallpaper image…
https://blog.protopage.com/pp/preview/new-background.jpg
(To set your wallpaper, use the Colors / Settings button on your Protopage toolbar)
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:41 am
Just waiting. Just waiting.
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 am
How about an itunes mini player add in for Protopage
Steve
July 3rd, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Poor engineer. :(
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Looking forward to v3. Also curious about how you keep this free. Are there plans in the works for premium services? how about corporate or education versions?
July 6th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
There are a number of business models that will allow us to keep Protopage a free service. For now, we’re concentrating on the free features that will help us continue our growth.
July 7th, 2006 at 7:00 am
hi folks, so, how much longer? we all feel like we are anticipating Christmas or something.
July 8th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
This is going to be better then any Christmas present I ever got, Thanks Protopage Posse.
July 10th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
I love protopage! I’d been using pp ever since I heard about it on TWIT, a long time ago….NOW, i can’t even imaing a day w/o it.
I’ve checked out a lot of the other AJAX based, start-pages. But I love the Protopage the MOST! Its simple, looks just right, feels right…
Keep up the good work guys. This is truly a useful product…
Goodluck with the newer versions in the future..
:)
July 11th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
“Version 3 will be free” but I suspect version 4 will not?
July 11th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
We’ll always keep the base Protopage product a free service – and depending on our choice of business model there may be scope for optional extra features in later versions.
July 17th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
I created a “How to Get Started with Protopage” Protopage for an instructional technologist position presentation. I was able to land the job and thought that maybe the “Protopage Team” could use ideas from the panels I created, or direct newbies to my protopage if they needed help. If not, no big deal, just thought I would try to help even more people get familiar with your wonderful technology. Thanks for everything. Kyle
The protopage how to is located at http://www.protopage.com/sciandtechsonger
July 21st, 2006 at 1:34 am
Will widgets be supported because me and a friend have made potiental widgets for people’s protopages
Chat and wordpress.com admin board widgets
July 25th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Thank you, Kyle, that looks fantastic. And Ruff, yes, version 3 will support widgets. We look forward to seeing yours.
August 9th, 2006 at 3:27 am
Hi – Any updates for July or August? Everything still A-OK?
August 10th, 2006 at 3:01 am
I’ve stopped holding my breath!
August 10th, 2006 at 8:34 am
You have ruined your chances.
I am sick of waiting any more.
There are other sites which provide a similar service.
Dont keep your clients waiting so long!!
August 10th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Would not be surprised if the server up and quits without notice.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Come on guys – an update or a confession. I, frankly, cannot afford for this server to go down on me (too much stuff here) so if you can let us know whats going on it would be *very* helpful. Are you there?
August 11th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Hi Parky, we’re still working away on v3 – we’ll post a full update soon. The last thing you have to worry about is Protopage going away – we’ve been working far too hard on version 3 to let that happen!
August 12th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Why the impatience people? the Protopage team must be working their butts off to bring us version 3.
I appreciate the hard work and effort guys.
August 30th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
Is there a time frame? When can we expect another update?
September 1st, 2006 at 9:03 am
Just created Protoplace – a social network for Protopage Users.
And then again if you like how it works and your protopage has potential for community then you might just want to create your own.
http://www.protopage.com/protoplace
You can:
create an online profile
keep audio, video or text blogs
upload your video clips, mp3s and photos
use the WIDGET function to embed YOUR STUFF into YOUR OWN PROTOPAGES, and any other webpages you may have!
add friends to your list
leave and receive messages in your guestbook – other features on the way soon…
In the meantime we might all get to know each other.
Protopage team if there’s a problem with my choice of name for the site please let me know …
and thanks for Protopage its amazing.