NetVibes, the startup that lets you assemble all your favorite widgets, feeds, social networks, email, videos and blogs onto a customizable homepage, is rolling out helpful “drag and follow” widgets for Facebook, MySpace and Twitter tomorrow.
NetVibes has offered Facebook, MySpace and Twitter widgets for some time now. Once you insert the respective widgets onto your NetVibes homepage, now you will be able to click on any friend, screen name or hashtag in the widget, then drag it outside and drop it on your page to create a new custom widget. The new widget will follow a person or topic. For example, you can take the stream of a news source or friend from Twitter and create a separate widget that tracks only their stream.
It’s certainly useful to navigate many different streams or threads at once. Especially if you are an active MySpace, Facebook or Twitter user, you can aggregate all the feeds onto one page as well as break out the feeds and searches that are most compelling to you, much like you can with many desktop Twitter clients..
Desktop clients like Tweetdeck and Seesmic, for instance, let you create breakout columns to filter feeds by user and search from Twitter. So if you regularly use a Twitter client, NetVibes’ page may be redundant. But the nice thing about the widgets are that they are small, and you can aggregate other info, like the weather, news feeds, RSS feeds and more onto one centralized page. NetVibes says that they will start using the drag and drop technology for search within other widgets in the near future. Competitors to NetVibes include Pageflakes and iGoogle. Last week at the TechCrunch’s Real Time Stream CrunchUp, Netvibes also previewed a new live feed reader and instant update architecture to make RSS real-time, which will be officially launched in the near future.
does anyone honestly use netvibes?
-yahoo has my yahoo.
-google has igoogle.
-you can have multiple homepages in IE8.
those 3 alone make something like netvibes completely useless.
I am using Netvibes since it was launched and I feel it is the best feed aggregator I have used. Only service that competes with it is Google reader, but I prefer Netvibes because I am used to it and I like the interface.
I use it too and love it. Main reason is because you can click on the article title in an RSS feed and the full page will show up in a frame. Fewer new windows and tabs and a much easier way of going straight to the articles you want.
Twitter widget works very well too.
Yahoo and Google are big companies but that doesn’t mean they do everything the best.
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Nice! But it looks like there are just too many things.
I still use it – it’s the best!
Honestly, netvibes is way better than igoogle and my yahoo.
The new facebook widget looks very nice. Can’t wait to drag and drop @samyz too.
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Besides, lots of people want a truly personalizable page: Netvibes doesn’t have a large logo, a mandatory search engine, offers more than 180,000 widgets to choose from, multiple pages to sort out everything that matters to you, a Public page to publish your interests in a vertical topic, etc, etc, etc…
so, yes, a lot of people uses Netvibes.
Opera has Opera Portal, http://my.opera...ew-opera-portal – http://portal.opera.com (if you’ve got an IP in the correct ranges)
WOW. this feature seems to be really nice. Eagerly waiting for it to come out.
I wish they’d make a standalone or Air version so that I didn’t have a 600MB Firefox all the time. Dragging is nice if it doesn’t bring the machine to its knees. I’ve used NV since before Ginger, but it just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and I’m not sure current Javascript implementations are mature enough for it.
Hey man — I hear widgets are gonna be all the rage.
Of course that was from a 2007 copy of Newsweek, but…
Listen to Freddy Mini’s comments about the new “drag and follow” widgets:
http://socialne...follow-widgets/
Netvibes might take this beyond Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace: “if people love it, we can make it work on anything.”
I’ve given it a try and I love it indeed.
Netvibes is so fantastic.
Great widgets.
Their investors have got the patience of saints. When are these guys going to do something which actually makes money? Netvibes has to be the most overengineered site in the history of the web. That’s not to say it doesn’t have some great features etc. I just don’t see the point unless there’s some kind of financial gain to be had at the end of it.
Widgets man, whod’a thunk?
If Netvibes adds grouping into these widgets, it will become my default twitter client instantly.