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Will Netvibes become THE highlighting tool?

Written on July 1, 2008 – 12:52 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

While the Netvibes blog still triumphs the neat integration with Google Search, TechCrunch reports that a new - and more exciting - feature has launched. It’s called Buzz and it adds Digg, Mixx, Reddit and Yahoo - uhm - Buzz to its impressive list of competitors (featuring iGoogle and MyAOL). In case you haven’t noticed yet, there’s a “star” function in Netvibes, with which you can highlight your favorite articles. Buzz will track which articles are starred most - by your friends or everyone - and by doing this, gives a Digg-like overview of the Web 2.0’s most favorite articles.

My first thought was: yet another sharing tool. But then I realized that Netvibes might become an “starring overlay” for all your content, as the little star is depicted in YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, RSS, and almost every other content widget you can come up with. So instead of turning tweets in a Twitter fav, starring articles on Google Reader and appreciating Digg articles by digging them, you just have one tool to manage all your highlight needs.

Before this scenario becomes reailty, Netvibes Buzz has to come a long way. It’s still in development and the numbers on the frontpage aren’t that impressive.

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Mischievous Monday Morning: iGoogle Party & Mac OS X as Music Video

Written on May 19, 2008 – 9:06 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

Somehow we missed the invitation for this iGoogle Artist Themes New York party. I’m sure we got one. Anyway, for a great example on what you can do to dress up a party if you have unlimited funds check out their video. In their own words: “What if the Google homepage had been designed by Dolce & Gabbana? Or Philippe Starck? Or the Beastie Boys? Get a behind the scenes look at our iGoogle Artist Themes launch event held in New York City’s Meatpacking District.”

Do you have those days where you can’t seem to get any work done? You just play around with Photoshop a bit? Mindlessly opening and closing windows? Well, watch this video to see how one person turned a lot of window opening and other Mac OS X Finder related actions into one hell of a Video Clip for the song Again & Again by The Bird And The Bee.