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If you've put a lot of effort into developing an intranet that lets employees or members of your organisation personalise their homepage, then check out this website to get a glimpse of what the future holds.

NetVibes is one of a growing number of cutting-edge personalisable websites (others include Personalised Home from Google, Windows Live from Microsoft, PageFlakes and ProtoPage) that have taken on the ground-breaking My Yahoo site.

But unlike My Yahoo, NetVibes doesn't require you to sign up to an email account to start creating your own page. The NetVibes homepage itself is your new drawing board, where you can freely add your own RSS or Atom feeds, as well as links to email inboxes, weather feeds, to-do lists and photo sites like Flickr and Picasa. The site has just as much muscle as the other GYM (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) bunnies offer.

You can then rearrange all the elements on your NetVibes homepage by simply dragging and dropping them where you like, and change simple display elements (such as the colour of the background) to suit your own tastes.

NetVibes saves your settings automatically using cookies, but if you want to access the personalised page from a ...

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