Netvibes is another online service that you can use either privately or publically. It functions as a web portal: you can use a variety of modules that let you receive podcasts and play them, view weather and sports reports, receive RSS feeds, check web based email, and lots more. I’m still working out all the things that I can do with Netvibes. Netvibes is similar to MyYahoo or iGoogle, but in my opinion it has more options for the user.

Netvibes also functions in a social network so you can connect to Facebook and Twitter. If you like sharing your internet presence with others, you can get Followers who can keep track of what you do publically by subscribing to your page and then reading it on their page. Your Followers can become your Friends. It’s all very social, and frankly it’s not why I started using Netvibes, but I am checking out the possibilities of Netvibes social aspects.

What I like about Netvibes is that it is easy to customize and set up tabs for a variety of your interests. You can determine where your content goes, and then just click on a tab to see what new feeds have come in for your favorite topics. I spend a lot of time on the internet, and I have so many bookmarks that it’s often difficult to keep up with them. Netvibes let me organize my work more efficiently, and it lets me share some of my interesting new finds with friends.

Check Netvibes out and see what you think about it.