Netvibes May Give My Yahoo Run For Money

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Wall Street Journal columnist Walter S. Mossberg reviews Netvibes, which allows users to create personalized pages with modules that gather headlines, email, weather and other data from all over the Web, and 'combines some of the best features of My Yahoo and [Apple's] Dashboard,' Mossberg writes. More from the article: 'Among the modules you can add to your Netvibes page right from this menu, without navigating to any setup page, are weather forecasts, a notepad, a to-do list and calendar, and modules that perform searches for Web pages, blogs, pictures, videos and podcasts. There are also email modules that will display your new messages from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail or any regular old email account you configure. Others display content from eBay, MySpace, Fox Sports and more.' In an accompanying video, Mossberg demonstrates Netvibes."

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Hooray for Privacy

[Ford Prefect]

From the Netvibes.com front page: "Gmail Account not configured, use the Edit button to set your login and password".

This site ... isn't a Google service. They want full access to your email? Yeah, right. I can't see how else it would work...

Re:Does anyone know of any opensource products

[drinkypoo]

You forgot to provide the actually relevant information, which is that if you want to use it to create a site with user-definable portals, you will need the MySite module.

I've been using drupal for a short while now (since 4.6 - since then there's been 4.7(.x) and now we're up to 5.1 already - drupal's versioning scheme was recently changed to be more stupid) and while there are some dragons there it's easily the most full-featured free CMS that won't make you cry trying to set it up. In fact 5.x made the installation and administration processes substantially easier.

I'm running two sites on drupal (and soon, I hope, my employer's website, which currently is some homegrown asp/jscript with a mssql backend) and I've been pretty happy in general. There's tons of modules, and most of them even work :)