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Netvibes May Give My Yahoo Run For Money

Posted by kdawson on from the widgets-on-steroids dept.

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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  1. Portals are so 1997 by scrod · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Didn't the world move beyond customizable portals with My Netscape? Does anyone actually care about this fluff anymore?

  2. MSN, Netscape, Google, etc. by Enderandrew · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Aren't there a huge plethora of sites that allow you to basically collect little applets and RSS feeds for a customized home feed?

    Hasn't this been the case for years and years?

    Can anyone please explain how this /. worthy?

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    1. Re:MSN, Netscape, Google, etc. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This one is much cooler than any I've seen. It uses AJAX, so changing things around doesn't require a setup page (unlike Yahoo or Google). You want something? Grab it from the sidebar and drop it onto the workspace. Do want something? Click the "X" and it's gone. Rearrange? Just drag and drop! You can refresh the individual boxes too. Plus you can make custom boxes that you can publish for other users to use, too. Very Web 2.0.

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  3. Re:Why hasn't google done something like this? by TodMinuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most of Googles stuff comes from internal use. Googlers, like most people in the world, probably don't use personalized portals.

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  4. Re:Why hasn't google done something like this? by Thansal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    hit submit by accident...

    Alot of the stuff in personalized google is the same type of stuff on my yahoo. Sure it might not look as pretty (personaly I think it looks beter), but I find it to be fulyl functional.

    I have up on mine a random game, /., Ruters, a wiki search box, my email, weather, and that is about all I want.

    If I want sometihng else you can just add in the RSS feed.

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  5. These aren't the only two on the market... by ilovegeorgebush · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why wasn't Google's personalised home page included, or the MSN Live pages? Seems to me it's a bit of a redundant comparison.

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  6. Re:Hooray for Privacy by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So giving Google full access to your email is better?

  7. Re:Hooray for Privacy by mrbooze · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *Someone* always has full access to your email, unless you maintain your own email servers and exclusively use encryption in all your messages.

    If not Google, then your ISP. Even if you host your own servers your ISP can capture all your mail traffic unless you encrypt it.