Netvibes is brilliant!
I first glanced at Netvibes many months ago, and quickly concluded that it wasn't for me – "Give me a nice clean about:blank as my start page any day," I thought to myself.
Still, when I visited the offices of Silicon Sentier the other week and heard the name of Netvibes' founder Tariq Krim mentioned no fewer than three times in the space of forty-five minutes, I thought I should perhaps give it a second look.
And I'm glad I did - Netvibes is brilliant!
I'm not going to get into a long explanation of what Netvibes is all about. A short explanation would be to say that it gives you quick access to all your favourite content and services available online (or at least the Web2.0-friendly ones), direct from a single web page.
I've added my Google calendar, my del.icio.us bookmarks, the weather for Paris, Box.net web storage and a few other bits and bobs like to-do lists and quick links and some nice pictures from Flickr to make the page look purty.
The thing is, it's harder to describe why Netvibes is so great than it is to urge you to try it for yourself. After all, I could just as easily store all these links as bookmarks. But, as well as looking good, the way Netvibes lets me have them all present on my screen at once in a big dashboard is just so much more practical, and ...
Oh heck, just go and try it if you haven't already.
(Maybe once they get some money I can ask Tariq about hiring me to sort out the English on their website.)
Comments
I've got a question for you interweb whizzes: is there any way to download Google calendar on my PDA/phone (T-Mobile MDA) like I can do with Outlook?
céline | 09:48 , 5 2006
To answer the comment that it's like myyahoo ... I read a good comment in an article about Netvibes on TechCrunch:
"It's technically true that Netvibes essentially does the same thing as any personalized h-page, but it just has that super-slick AJAX interface - not to mention a cool independent vibe."
Stuart | 01:29 , 4 2006
Don't know if you're daft, anonymous Karen, but have you seen this?
Stuart | 01:26 , 4 2006
Didnt mean to send my previous comment anon. :)
Karen | 01:14 , 4 2006
looks alot like myyahoo...
peter | 12:20 , 4 2006
That's the one thing i hate about my personalised Google page - i cant add my google calendar. Or can I? or am I just plain daft? :)
Anonymous | 12:16 , 4 2006
Very useful indeed! Thanks for the link!
céline | 09:32 , 4 2006