Netvibes
August 26, 2006
I started using my.yahoo.com as my web browser home page. At the time, back in the late ninetees, i found the ability to get the kind of news you wanted along with your yahoo email pretty neat.
Then came google, which i liked better with its steamlined interface. Plus, gmail is better than yahoo’s. For example they provide a free pop server (you have to pay to get it from yahoo). It did not get me to switch from yahoo to gmail though, the hassle of changing the email adress taking precedence.
I discovered Netvibes last week. It is a site aggregating content from various other sites or blogs. It has the same streamlined interface as google but the kind of content you can aggregate and how it is presented is even better than google’s i think. Netvibes is now my home page. They just raised 15M$ and it is already one of the best Web 2.0 site i have seen.
August 26, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Welcome in the blog’s world
Netvibes is cool but it is already what you have in the customized google home page of microsoft live beta site. Do you like it because it is a French company ? 
Anyway, what kind of business model could they use to earn some cash?
August 26, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Even if this is not obvious to us, Netvibes must have a good one in order to just have raised $15M.
Seb, welcome to the blogoshpere.