Almost a press kit – Patapage January 13 press release

Below you find a press release which includes links to screenshots which may be useful if you want to write something about Patapage.

Title
Patapage Beta Shows How To Build Sites Using Mashups In A Designer Friendly Way

Subtitle
Patapage, A New Online Service For Site Designers And Developers Is Now Available In Beta: It Is A Mashup Service That Can Change The Way Web Sites Are Built And Extended.

Body
Florence, Italy – January 11, 2010. Open Lab, a Florentine software house, released the beta of a new online service for all web site builders, called Patapage, available at http://patapage.com. Web mashups have been used for quite some time for adding widgets on web sites: with Patapage you can start building and expanding web sites using just the “paste a line of script” technique familiar from web widgets. Patapage provides widgets with a custom, uniform layout and profiled site contents.

With Patapage an existing web site can be expanded in minutes adding contributed wiki-style contents, page-relative comment feedback, image galleries, contact forms, rating, retweet, Google, Twitter or Delicious custom searches, windows on other websites, annotated feedbacks, and much more. This way the site content can be enriched with additional information sources, some of which will auto update.

Technically speaking, a Patapage account lets you extend mashup techniques with profiled server side contents, enabling statistics, community management and security.
While mashups and web widgets support the latest interaction techniques, they loosen control of the user / web site interaction, and also make it problematical to keep a consistent design. Patapage solves both these problems, by providing an environment for embedding mashup and customization of additional layout. Patapage uses the jQuery components techniques developed by Matteo Bicocchi on the Pupunzi web site http://pupunzi.com , which are widely used by JavaScript developers and web site builders. With Patapage those JavaScript techniques get supported with data and persistence of a site specific account, resulting in a service with the power of a traditional Content Management System and the dynamics of mashup services.

To learn more about Patapage, see the web site http://patapage.com. There you can test Patapage on any web site, even without enrolling.

Patapage’ screenshots are available on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/open-lab/sets/72157623166770460/
Follow Patapage developments: blog – twitter stream
Post about Patapage on Twitter: post to Twitter
Submit/vote feature requests: http://patapage.uservoice.com
To be notified when Patapage will be out of beta:
http://patapage.com/applications/pataPage/site/subscribe.jsp
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Media contact
Pietro Polsinelli
E-mail: ppolsinelli@open-lab.com
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/ppolsinelli
Blog: http://pietro.open-lab.com

About
Patapage is produced by Open Lab, a software house established in 2001 in Florence, Italy.
Open Lab
Via Venezia 18b
50121 Florence – Italy
http://www.open-lab.com
Phone: +39 055 5522779