If you're a fan of Netvibes, the popular personal start page, you'll be excited to hear they are rolling out a substantial upgrade, Netvibes Wasabi. We've got passes to get you to the head of the line.

While it lost to iGoogle in our best start page showdown, Netvibes remains a popular platform due to its serious customisation powers. With its newest feature, multiple personalised pages, it overtakes the competition as the feed addicts' platform of choice.

Popular start page Netvibes adds several new features today, including new layout options on a per-tab basis that "think outside the grid" and more options for how it displays RSS feeds on-page (in a ticker, carousel, magazine-style or normal view).

Webapp Orchestr8 creates widgets for your iGoogle, Netvibes, and Pageflakes start page—or to embed on a web site—from any web page with a simple point-and-click. Similar to the new web clip feature in Leopard (which does the same thing but puts the widget in Dashboard), just point Orchestr8 to the page containing the content you want to clip, find the content you want, click it, and the select Grab it. It's not perfect, but it does offer a simple way to create widgets for your start page for content that doesn't offer an easy-to-snag RSS feed.
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