Interview: Flavors.me's Jonathan Marcus
After joining every social network in the universe, posting dozens of photos as well as adding thousands of friends and strangers, you realized that your online presence needs consolidation. You need a one-stop place to show the world who you are and what you do. Even though there are quite a few build-it-yourself homepage solutions, Flavors.me gives you beauty, simplicity, flexibility and most of all: "tweet appeal."
Flavors.me has three features that makes your own page fun and cool. Besides pulling in your social feed, you can customize your main content. Here's your chance to tell the world about your plans for world peace or how much you love posting comments on this article. Also, you can use your own image for your background. Best of all, it's all so easy. With so much flexibility and ease-of-use, you can try different layouts, styles and colors.
Here's my Flavor: http://flavors.me/mikael
After meeting Flavors.me designer Rob Morris on the Twitterverse, he introduced me to co-founder Jonathan Marcus. I asked Jonathan if we could give us a taste of Flavors.me.
Q: Why did you start this project?
I wanted a personal homepage that was better than my friends, and figured it would be more fun to think up something that could automatically assemble sites for everyone, rather than just me. During the first Facebook application craze, when every single company in the web ecosystem put life on hold to develop clunky widgets for closed, proprietary platforms, it dawned on me that API-level integration was key. I was eager to prove that the open web was infinitely more powerful than AOL, redux.
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