Tag: NETVIBES

It's been a while since we've seen a compelling new browser start page. There was a real flurry of start pages a year or two ago when the likes of Google Personalized Start Page (now iGoogle), NetVibes, Pageflakes, and a myriad of other copycat sites launched. Strangely, even with such an amazing variety of start pages to choose from, we've never found any of them to be particularly compelling. ...

Netvibes Ginger is now open to the general public. Netvibes Ginger takes the personalized home page in a new, and more social, direction. Most of the new features in Ginger are designed to create a more social experience within your Netvibes home page: the ability to invite friends, a Netvibes Wall comments feature (similar to the commenting section on MySpace), the ability to share widgets with ...

Netvibes has just launched a private beta of its new iteration, Ginger. To those lucky few who were given an invite; now you must know how those kids who found Wonka's Golden Ticket felt. For the rest of us, Netvibes was kind enough to post a run-through of some of their pending and exciting features. Netvibes has been one of the most popular and easy to use personal start pages for a long while ...

Netvibes has been working on a way to give widget makers the ability to run their widgets on any widget platform, whether it's Vista, Mac Dashboard, Opera, iGoogle, or Windows Live. Now the fruit of their labor, the Universal Widget API, is in the wild, and it promises to increase exposure for widgeteers whose artful output was previously stunted because "it's not available for ...

Personalized webpages are all business when it comes to the New York Times personalized My Times page. Like other start pages, Netvibes, iGoogle, PageFlakes, MyYahoo and Windows Live, MyTimes allows users to pull in all of their important everyday RSS news and build a single resource. Widgets like weather, Flickr, stock quotes and crosswords can also be added to pages. Sections can be dragged ...

Facebook is the new meth. It's a harsh, seductive mistress that pulls in all ages and races and keeps them addicted, often crippling their social and professional lives. And while it's less dangerous than meth in the sense that very few house explosions have been directly caused by Facebook, most of the destruction comes from the fact that Facebook is available almost everywhere. And it seems a ...

The proliferation of personalized start pages since the inception of "Web 2.0" seems to be increasing at an exponential pace. If you've got the feeling that your personalized start page just isn't giving you the features you feel you need, or you're simply wondering what all this nonsense about a personalized start page is all about, check out Mashable's overview and comparison of 14 of the most ...

If you are a big fan of custom start pages like the new MyYahoo, and a user of a POP mail account, you might get excited about a new feature Yahoo has added. In iGoogle, you can only pull in your Gmail account, well, Yahoo thought hey, why not, let's make it so that any mail account can get imported into our customers start pages in the new MyYahoo. So they came out with the POP Mail module ...

Netvibes announced this week the launch of Netvibes Universe. Netvibes Universe allows users to create personalized home pages with widgets they select and now publish them for public use. Available widgets include things like RSS feeds, weather reports, Flikr Image searches, YouTube video searches and more. Publishers now also have the ability to add their own CSS and HTML to pages as well. Users ...

Netvibes has announced a few colorful updates to their online service. The Coriander release brings with it improvements from numerous suggestions. First off, Netvibes Coriander gets an improved RSS experience. Even though we really didn't think the old version was bad, Netvibes now has the ability to use multimedia content from blogs and news feeds without ever leaving the page. Listen to ...

Everyone has been trying out Netvibes new mobile service that was just dropped, so I thought I would give it a go and see what all the hype was about; I was surprised at the results. Netvibes, as you probably know, is an Ajax start page that allows you to plug in feeds and modules to import all of you important information, and have it all right in front of you without switching between ...

The folks over at Netvibes have been very busy as of late. In the last few weeks they've released 10 new international versions of their "customizable Web 2.0 home page/portal solution" (buzzwords aside, it's a terrific service). If you haven't given it a try yet, perhaps one these new versions will entice you: Greek, Turkish, Quebecer, Ukrainian, Russian, Danish, Canadian, Polish, Brazilian and ...

Netvibes has just undergone a new release. Netvibes is a customized home page solution, that allows users to develop personalized home pages and drop data feeds and other services from web 2.0 companies on a customized home page. There are tons of new features in this new release called "Cinnamon." First off, the interface has received a nice work over, including the addition of some cool ...

Nowsy is feed reader that lets you add an unlimited number of feeds as panes on a personalized home page-style page. It has a clean, uncluttered interface but otherwise does little that will blow anyone away or make them switch from Netvibes or Google Personalized Homepage. For newshounds, however, it does have once nice feature: You can search among your feed items. Typing in a search term will ...

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but among all the personalized home page services, I think this is a first: Netvibes has added a module for their home pages that will show you new messages from your IMAP and POP3 e-mail accounts. The module allows you to customize the number of e-mail headings to show as well as specify a URL to link to a webmail account if you have one. This in addition to ...