A Colgate colleague, he of the Intermedia blog, led me to netvibes a long time ago. I love it, it's an easy way to collect everything you might want to peruse on the web on one webpage.
You control the page, organize it, and manage it. I love how customizable it is, you move these neat little boxes around as you see fit and organize content into tabs. I have all my Colgate- related searches and feeds on one tab, web 2.0 news and higher ed blog feeds on another tab, general news and gossip feeds on another tab, and of course, all things Rangers, Mets, Jets on another.
I have e-mail and weather feeds, as well.
Why am I writing now? Well, netvibes just rolled out a Facebook widget.
This lets you keep up with your Facebook notifications and friends in the same place you keep up with all your RSS feeds. And as I find myself using Facebook a bit more these days as more higher ed forums and groups are formed, I'm digging this new addition.
Widgets are our friends, and I just made a new one.
