PREDICTION: Netvibes Is Going To Take Over The Planet

I'm sure by now, everyone is familiar with RSS Feeds and how you can have a desktop appliance to aggregate, or collect, updates from your favorite websites and blogs to your computer as they happen. Any good website or blog has an RSS feed. Yes, even I have one right here you can subscribe to my site with if you use an aggregator.

Well what if you're far away and you don't have your computer? What if you dont want to have to set all that stuff up again time after time? NetVibes handles it all for you. It's a completely interchangeable web-based desktop aggregator that is easy to organize. Once you add a feed, you can arrange it in the order you want to see it by clicking on the feed, dragging it to where you want to view it on your page, and NetVibes remembers your personal settings.

It can act as your home page for your browser, complete with instant email checking, a number of excellent built-in options (including easy connectivity with your del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, or Gmail accounts), a feed directory you can browse through to find web feeds you're interested in, and a customizable header.

Mind you, NetVibes is only a couple of months old -- officially it's still in Beta. But when you see how nice this webtop appliance is, how quickly it works, and how it is accesible from any place that has internet connectivity, you'll want to play around with it and see how it works for you.

I like this thing a lot. No spam, no pop up ads, nothing (at least not yet). If you understand how to set up RSS feeds, then go set up your own NetVibes and check it out.