Get all the RSS/Atom feeds you want plus podcast, or use it to jolt down short "web-notes'. This is a preliminary version of a collaborative web 2.0 desktop, just add content.
NetVibes is produced by a French start-up company and it shows how useful AJAX can be. See their founder's CV with expanding/collapsing sections to see how your CV will look in the future.
Check out the screenshots below:
NetVibes offers a simple looking page
The page is fully customizable with Google-like ease
Reading your favorite blogs via RSS is fast and fun
You can subscribe to podcasts AND listen to them directly from your page
References:
Netvibes and customizable home pages - Geeking with Greg
Netvibes - Personal homepage - TechCrunch
Protopage.com
Protopage: an AJAX-based stickies application - Download Squad
NetVibes - AJAX Homepage - Digg.com
Goowy - Flash-based desktop, widgets, calendar, email. Read more in Alex Moskalyuk Online
Pageflakes: The Teacher Edition. ScienceRoll, 12/2007.
Updated: 12/08/2007
I have made some Netvibes search modules for our patrons and for others! It really is cool stuff.
ReplyDeleteWhat if your Library would offer them to you? Would you use them?
regards,
Guus van den brekel
Digicmb.blogspot.com