We recently reviewed Wasabi, Netvibes’ powerful new stream reader which consolidates news feeds, blogs, Twitter and Facebook streams, email, and more in an extremely manageable interface. The site entered private beta recently and we have 200 invites for TechCrunch readers. To get an invite, visit Wasabi and enter the code “WASABITC.”
As we wrote earlier, Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini demonstrated parts of Wasabi at our first Realtime CrunchUp in July. In addition to the traditional widget view, which breaks up your feeds and applications into a grid of boxes on your Netvibes homepage, Wasabi now also has a “smart reader” view. The smart reader borrows from traditional RSS readers in that all the feeds and widgets you subscribe to are presented together in one column, updated in reverse chronological order.
You can see just a list of headlines, or an expanded view with the full feed. It looks similar to Google Reader, except that Netvibes supports more than just RSS feeds. You can import your Twitter and Facebook streams (read-only right now), as well as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Flickr photos, weather widgets, stock widgets, and more. Plus, Wasabi has also sped things up to make the stream as realtime as possible. It is caching content from the most popular feeds and pushing that down to users as soon as there are any updates, and it will also be supporting both the Pubsubhubbub (PuSH) and RSSCloud standards aimed at eliminating the lag time inherent in RSS and Atom feeds.
Wasabi seems awfully close to Wesabe (http://www.wesabe.com/) in terms of brand name. Odd choice.
um…they are still called Netvibes. Wasabi is just the codename for this particular version of Netvibes.
This looks awesome…been trying to get an invite for weeks. Thanks!
Cool, thanks for the invite.
I got an invite and gave it a quick look. I have to say I don’t see much of a point in using this over google reader. I guess a case can be made for twitter and facebook being included but aside from that, google reader’s features and UI seem better.
Umm. You _JUST_ posted this article so I raced over there and entered in the invitation code and it didn’t work.
Any ideas?
@Michael: Sorry for commenting as a reply to you. Must have clicked the wrong thing on accident.
That’s the whole point of it. Integration.
You wasted a invite. shame on you.
I don’t think it was meant to be a replacement of some web based RSS reader. It’s just a “start site” thing, like http://www.iGoogle.com
Code invalid already?
seems so, that went quick
looks like it expired…
Got an invite, but the new “smart reader” doesn’t load any of my feeds… =\
Where are you evening seeing the “smart reader” view? I can’t find the darn thing any where.
Top-right corner below logged-in user. But forget about it, Netvibes completely blank now.
It says I’m upgrade to Wasabi, but I don’t see any new buttons of any kind in the top right corner. They must be having problems.
Try out http://www.netv...es.com/?reset=1 and log-in again. I see the new buttons, but the reader doesn’t load. Maybe cause my Netvibes is in Portuguese.
Ba-ba-ba-banginnnnn!! Tanks!
code doesn’t work…
Damn… already gone… wasn’t fast enought!
code expired..
Are the 200 gone already?
Got an invite but do not see the new reader
. Anyone knows how to enable it?
Are the codes out ? …. that was quick
How does it compare to NetNewsWire? Or is there even a mac version?
“WASABITC”
Just add an “H” to the end of the code.
lol – you got me there. i only realized it when it said the code is invalid.
LMAO! Fantastic. You got me there, too…
Not fair, it’s not available anymore. What was the point of this?
Invitation Code does not work
I assume all the invites have been taken – just get an error message.
The same for me … sad.
arggg
isnt this yet another version of the new all in one dashboard aggregators.
last week was threadsy this week wasabi..next week??…a combo of the two known as thrasabi?
argh…too late for me!!
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