Netvibes again…
What do we called Netvibes, a virtual desktop, a personalised homepage, is there an emerging term yet for this concept?
Here’s how del.icio.us users tag it, notice “homepage” is coming 6th.
Anyway I’ve been using this tool lately and it’s becoming my first stop for everything, in other words it’s the new home page.
What I can do:
- Search
- See the weather
- Latest Gmail entries (with excerpts if you like)
- Read feeds (by title, and by full-text)
…you can even keep feeds off the main page by keeping them hidden in the “Add Content” page.At the moment you can only add a feed box to your desktop, what about adding a list or folder of feeds to your desktop
- Notes
- Writely integration
- Bookmark Manager
How I use it:
On the left under the web search, weather, and gmail I list
- Feed from my bloghost forum
- my del.icio.us for feed
- In the middle
- my 10 favourite feeds
Also including a news search feed, blog search feed, blog tag feed, bookmark feed (just the essentials)
- On the right
- Writely
- Bookmark Manager
I use this section to keep a list of all my web accounts, I use the service name for the tag name, and I also use a tag called accounts to have them all in one list, and a tag forum for a list of the services that have a forum.
I’m finding this great for quick access. - Notes
I use these various ways, and it’s great that you have 6 colours to choose from
- to do list
- to blog list
- sites to look at list
- sites with no feeds list (so I remember to look at them, because these days if it’s not in my Bloglines RSS reader it doesn’t exist, although I do use WatchThatPage to monitor a few sites that I read in Gmail).
- comments I have made list (this way I can keep track of comments I have left on blogs to see if anyone has responded, as not all blog posts have RSS for comments or email notification…once I see someone has replied I can delete it from my list, as I archive my blogosphere comments in a del.icio.us tag).
Even though I use the notes as a “to blog” list, this is simply a title list, I gather material for these posts elsewhere…this is for a further post.
At the moment you can’t label a hyperlink in the “notes” feature, but this will be overcome in the near future, there is also a “to-do” feature coming.
What’s missing, a calendar, contacts…Netvibes doesn’t neccessarily have to implement full blown services, it only has to intergrate with others as a glimpse or synopsis, before you go to the native site, such as with gmail.
You could use the bookmarks as a Contacts menu by listing all your email addresses under a “contacts” tag, or get a glimpse of your contacts or calendar via a service like Planzo…now this would be good…what about hooking into Tagalag.
Also check out this rip-off, Zoozio.
As Techcrunch listed now we have: Protopage, Netvibes, Goowy, Google personalised, Windows Live, and now Zoozio.
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I’ve seen these sites caled “portals”. There’s a couple of others that I know of out there too. See:
Fyuze
Box-the-Web
Would make for an interesting features & benefits comparison…..
Comment by John — November 9, 2005 @ 2:01 pm
I tend to keep Fyuze in a separate basket, more solely focused as a way to showcase some feeds in display boxes (this is only one aspect of Netvibes)…so I see Fyuze as just for this one purpose, I also like that you can tab pages
see my post:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/20/fyuze-for-news/
Thanks for box-the-web…this seems to fit in with Fyuze…some others are:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/07/01/fuzzy-newsmastering/
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/10/21/daily-rotation/
(although you can’t add your own feeds to daily rotation)
Comment by Johnt — November 10, 2005 @ 1:56 am