Netvibes - About having the web the way you want it

Whats different about Netvibes? How does it stack up against say a rss reader or my.msn.com or my.yahoo.com? For one Netvibes users will two (2) pages for every account: a private page, where you subscribe to all the content for your personal, everyday use, and a public page, where you can allow others to access your favorite content -- everything that you love on the web.

Here is one more thing you will like about it if you have a widescreen monitor it will fill it up end to end plus no annoying google ad or flashy ads.

Netvibes is about having web the way you want it. Exactly the way you want it. Delivered to you.

So check out it out for yourself: Netvibes Also check out Moby's Netvibe page.

To read more about guy behind Netvibes read it article in business 2.0 "Web users feel the 'Vibes'

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Comments

Anonymous said…

Pageflakes has the public pages feature since last year. Check their massive gallery: http://www.pageflakes.com/Community/Pages/Page.aspx

Barry

April 27, 2007 at 10:27:00 PM PDT

Spaceinthecity said…

I checked the public pages feature of pageflakes and here is a link to moby 's page on pageflake

Liked the embedded music player

April 28, 2007 at 1:09:00 PM PDT

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