Netvibes Ginger Private Beta , More Than Awesome ..

Hours ago I got an Invitation ( Thanks Frank ) , to try the Netvibes.com Ginger - The Private Beta . as I remember the first time i used netvibes.com , i realized something special about that feed reader , more than he customization of the page or adding useful tools , sometime later netvibes lunches Tabs , means you can add pages and classify it as you read , ( Medicine , Health , web2.0 , Ajax , ..whatever ) , otherwise , Modeling the netvibes and lunching an API ( UWA ) , make it more modular and more interactive with the other web services ( social networking , emails , social services …) , now its easy that we re-call netvibes.com our start page .

Ginger : is the new edition of the Netvibes.com , which focus on adding new features , making it more usable , more social ( connect the people you know ) , and l can say they add the most elegant feature i always wished to see , so here is a list of New Netvibes.com Ginger new features :

1-New Controllable interface :

The New Netvibes.com is now easier to control The Top bar now hold the main controls for the new features ( Add Content , Go to My Private Page ( or ) Go to My Public Page , Activities , Contacts ) , browse widgets and add them in one place instead of going to the classic widgets directory , now you can browse the widget by category , add the widget you want in simple click after you see how it looks like . also now you may search for the widgets you want . all in one place . the new control set is rested in peace in top scrollable frame .

2-Contacts :
Its easy now to find your friends , and add them on netvibes.com , so far you can search for them as well , netvibes list them . Why The Need To Contacts , its easy , Socializing the netvibes was a great step , that Sharing is the most common successful feature , so how about the usability of sharing ? Now when you browse any feed : items , videos , or podcast now you can save the link , and you have 2 options in saving them ( Public and Private ) , Public it’ll be viewed to your contacts .

3- Activities : Your Public activity ,Your Private activity , Your Friends activity :

far as i can get activities mean the links i saved either Public ( for my friends network ) and private only me can view it , also you may notice : Friends Activity , that where you’ll see your friends saved ( public ) links . also you may save your friends added links as a favorite ( make as Favorite ) , if you missed some days , busy at work or can not track your friends saved links for certain time , surly you may wanna to review what they saved so , there is a calender which point to the current day , as you may decide to view the activities in certain day … ( i hope , they add another feature to ” see the activities since the last login ” ) .

4-My Universe , Your Universe , Their Universe :
soon as i registered the netvibes.com years ago , i was shifting my work place , from place to another , also i was moving a lot , sometimes i need to check special pages so i had to login netvibes.com from many public PCs , and from many places , so i made a sort of private feed reader allows me to access to the common feeds i always read , i wished the Netvibes create a Public Page for the feeds i always read , that dose not need a login to access .

Somehow Netvibes.com has another plan for that sort of features , so it created a Universe , that universe is a same as netvibes , but it different cause its Public through a private URL , You can customize this page for the world , and for yourself ( adding your feeds ) , its your own universe which is completely widgetized and customizable , somehow you may publish your news , your social network life . also do not forget , Netvibes users , can subscribe to your Universe as you can subscribe the available universes .
There is many Universes , That you may check . ( Via Netvibes Ginger Portal ) : CBS News ,The Guardian ( The Guardian Universe is Rich. with Tabs ( sections in pages ) . i think , there will be a universe directory sometime later . for that sort of public figures , newspapers ,websites ..etc

so beyond creating a universe i also created fast page of the feeds i always read :

5-Send To : My Picks , My Private Page ( or my Universe ) , a Friend , and To My Blog ?!
In almost every widget , you notice an email icon that will make the share more amusing , by sharing the widget ( blog or a friend ) or even sending it to the place you want ( universe or private page ) , make the interaction between the Private access page and the universal page more easier , in matter of a minute i manage to transfer all the widgets i needed from the private page to the universal page .

There are 2 more features still inactive , but so far i created my universe ( Drive and Channels ) , i can not wait to see them both .