Netvibes is a unique site which let's you create a customizable home page. This means that you can insert all the information you want in your homepage, customize it tailored to your needs, and do it easily and simply. Once you visit the site, it's very simple to get started; there is no need to register (although I believe the option is available), and you can begin creating your page right away. There is already a default page created for you; it has some modules already installed and positioned. You can easily delete the contents of this tab (each page of your home site is called a tab) and create a new one from scratch. This is where the fun begins; you can start by clicking the "add content" button (it's in the top left of the screen.) There are some presets here, a wide range to choose from: you can set up your Gmail, and have your new e-mails appear in a window; you can have a window with the latest stories on digg.com; you can add a bookmarks window in which you can assign bookmarks to tags; you can add "webnotes," whih are small blocks of text which are great for storing snippets of information; you can edit your "writely" documents; you can create a to-do list; and much more. After playing around with the modules, I began to create some new tabs, each customized to a specific function. One tab is for podcasts, one is for RSS feeds (even though the podcasts tab is based around RSS feeds.) This is, what I believe, the greatest feature of Netvibes; custom RSS feeds. You can consolidate all your feeds on one page, or sprawled across your Netvibes homesite (I don't know at which point in this post I changed it from "homepage" to "homesite.") You can try this function out yourself; if you're on Netvibes, hit the "add content" button and click "add my feed" - now you can type in the RSS address of the desired feed. You can easily add this blogs feed; here is the link: http://whenpariswasacity.blogspot.com/atom.xml .
You can synchronize Netvibes with your Ical, and even add custom events from eco.netvibes.com; there, you'll also find more custom feeds and modules. Here is my favourite: Daily Comics Viewer. Search it at eco.netvibes.com.
As you can see, Netvibes is a great tool. It is one of those interesting ideas that, when well executed, is a versatile and indespensible hub of interest (I am aware that did not make sense.) My verdict?
(4/5)
