Netvibes.com is a custom-made web 2.0 home page solution (on steroids).

It is much like a MyYahoo or a personalized MSN or Google page, but what I especially like about Netvibes is that you can have many tabs and that there are many modules available. Truly there are so many possibilities with Netvibes that I think this is one of the best Web 2.0 solutions out there. If you are not familiar with netvibes yet, I strongly encourage you to check it out. To get you started quickly and to save you some time I already have created a netvibes tab that you can add to your netvibes to keep you informed about Hospitality-News (see the link to the left).

Netvibes is free, and without obtrusive advertisement!

It gives you the ability to create dynamic pages with Web2.0 data feeds and services all from a very simple and flexible interface. As such you can pull RSS feeds, your favorite podcasts (and play them without any additional software). Via your netvibes personalized pages you can check your email (Gmail, pop-mail etc) and use instant messenger (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ Google etc). You can also get maps, or “mashed maps” that show you traffic, weather or hotels. And because of their open web2.0 development methodology, everybody can add modules and new exciting modules are literally added daily. Note they are just getting started…

Click the "Read more…" link below for some answers to some questions that have popped up during my workshops on Web 2.0. like;

• How do I add the RSS feeds that I currently subscribe to?
• How do I add all the RSS feeds that I have subscribed to in netvibes to another RSS reader?
• Why does the language / location not work?
  
• Can I read this off line?
• Can I read this on my mobile / BlackBerry / Pocket PC?
• How do I move a module or RSS feed to another tab?
• Can you recommend some modules?

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. A site that allows you to share your bookmarks via the web, categorized by tags instead of folders and with more descriptive notes.

So what is so great about that, you might be asking. Well let’s think about this... You have probably noticed that the web changes rapidly. You surf and find new interesting stuff all the time, right? Well I do too and so do many others. If we try to "remember" the interesting sites by using bookmarks or favorites in our browsers we have to try to put them in some descriptive folder that hopefully will help us find them once again. That is if we work on the same computer… Del.icio.us allows you to put your bookmarks online, which makes them always accessible. Now instead of organizing them by folders to help you find them, del.icio.us allows you to assign tags and notes to them to give even more descripion to your filing system.

When you use Del.icio.us the tags will likely be similar to your bookmark / favorite folders, however note that you can assign as many tags as you want. This way you can put your bookmarks / favorites in as many “folders” at once without having to hide them in sub-folders. If you are anything like me, I am sure you have wondered which folder to save your bookmark / favorite, perhaps you have even saved a bookmark twice, in two folders that you thought were appropriate. With tags, there is no need for that anymore. The other great benefit is that you can give your bookmark / favorite a more descriptive note. And because your bookmarks / favorites are online you can easily let others see them. No need to email them to your friends anymore.

Click the "Read more..." link below to see more useful tips to use Del.icio.us effectively like;

• How to automatically add notes from the page that you are bookmarking?
• How do I easily find my or the sites bookmarked by others?
• How do I leverage the work of others?
• How do I export / import bookmarks / favorites from my browser?
• How do I navigate from the address bar and how do I use the RSS feeds?