Use netvibes to (re)mix the web
21 May 2007
Earlier this year my personal information that I had attached to my Yahoo! account was deleted along with my account - this being email, contacts, stored notes, favorites, etc… I won’t get into the details, but I believe it to be a tragic mistake revolving around Yahoo Answers and trying to hack out a bluetooth connection on board a Saturn Aura…. But that is a story for tomorrow.
I learned that letting a big company hold onto my information and in a wink beable to seperate me from it was a horrible mistake, so I caution everyone to keep your criticals away from the big guys, and keep it close…
I was big on using my.yahoo.com as a news and home page, and being miffed, I wanted something new, different, and better. So, I went exploring to see what was out there.
To my delightful surprise, I came across something that made me realize I had missed a couple of months of world wide web development.
Simply, Netvibes.com is my new homepage. With netvibes, all your digital life fits in one page. Blogs, news, online videos, podcast, pictures, e-mail: pick your favorite services to create your netvibes page.
I pull various news feeds (RSS) from various magazines and blogs, comics, weather, shopping deals, games, local radar, clocks, flickr accounts, todolists, etc.. and put them into neat little boxes that I can access just by turning on my browser.
Adding and removing content is easy in that everything is either drag or drop, or done with very easy to use menus. New ‘modules’ are being added every day.
All this - with no advertisements.
But the best thing is that I can download all of my settings at once, and keep it, just in case something goes bad…
on December 15th, 2007 at 10:33 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce