Netvibes

Netvibes
Netvibes is a personal homepage that brings together a number of indispensable functions to help you organize your online life. Its main purpose is as a feed reader, but as an add-on it also offers you a whole host of widgets with whose help you can group together on one page several tools which, properly used, will assist you with Internet activity.
As well as managing and reading your favourite RSS feeds, Netvibes gives you direct access to your POP3 and webmail email accounts (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Mac); to specialized search tools (websites, blogs, videos, images, maps, podcasts, etc.); to your profile on social networks and on online services (Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, delicious and MySpace), and a whole miscellany of applications, all from the same page.

All the information can be organized into tabs, making it really easy to group RSS feeds according to theme or put together widgets that have the same purpose. Each of these tabs is presented in panel form, and these you can arrange according to taste, so that they become the windows that divide up your content.

In addition to the services already mentioned, Netvibes contains a great many really useful widgets, such as a calendar, notes, lists of jobs To-Do, markers, and the same internal directory as Ecosystems.

Another great feature is that you can completely change your personal homepage’s appearance using the colours and styles that can be directly installed from the control panel.

Lastly, what distinguishes Netvibes as an application and is making it a benchmark is its social side. Virtually element within your personal website can be shared on Twitter, Facebook, in e-mails or from your Netvibes public profile. That way, if you like a certain article, with just a couple of clicks you can recommend it to your contacts on this or any other social network.

There’s no question that Netvibes is an excellent choice if you are trying to centralize and organize the attention your website receives and want to take maximum advantage of the time you spend at the computer.