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Netvibes is a home page which users can customize to include Atom/RSS feeds, email, search engines, to-do’s and notes, weather forecasts and other widgets. It was launched on September 15, 2005 and is translated in different languages due to popular usage. A standard Netvibes page has an RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, bookmarks and notes, a calendar supporting iCal, writely word processor, multiple search engines, different webmail providers like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and AOL mail, and many more features. Users can also change the way a Netvibes page looks like either by choosing from available themes or by creating their own designs. Users need not to register to access Netvibes, however, to save a personalized homepage, users must register with an email address and a password.

Web 3.0 has a different way of building applications and interacting on the web. All the core model of web 3.0 states that the entire World Wide Web will be seen as a single database. Many of their tools are being developed through which interactivity between different websites with different data that can be enhanced. The prediction is that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen in the web applications which are pieced together. Having a huge number of characteristics of these applications: they can run on any device- PC or mobile phone, and they are very fast and customizable.

VP of Labs for Mozilla Chris Beard has said that some of the features of Firefox 3 will resurface in Firefox 4.  New improved enhancements will make Firefox 4 leap several times past its current competitors.  Beard believes in the browser concept and says that it hasn’t fundamentally changed in almost 10 years. And It’s still an isolated piece of software, he says. At this very moment, these are two separate projects of the Mozilla that is running.

Adobe is issuing a fresh update to Flash Player 9 and hope to prevent Flash-based Web applications being used to launch attacks against their valued consumers — but the update may also stop the Flash apps working if ever developers don’t heed Adobe’s recommendations. This is a win-win strategy of securing online activity, while at the same time adding flavor to a very good program as it is.  Their April update addresses two security flaws in the Adobe Flash 9 would be relating to cross-site scripting (XSS) and DNS rebinding attacks — common techniques used by their opponents to attack computer systems by exploiting flaws in Web applications. This update focuses on features in Adobe used by Web developers to communicate to all users.

Adobe just keeps getting better these days.  Perhaps with how competitors are gearing for tomorrow’s market.  Adobe announced last Thursday their launch of a long-awaited Web component to its flagship digital imaging line, Photoshop. Debuting today in the public beta, Adobe Photoshop Express is a free online photo sharing, editing, and storage site. At launch, the users will be provided with 2GB of free storage and integration with popular Web apps such as Face book and Photo bucket, with further partnerships with sites like Flicker in the works. This was designed to be, in part, an entry into the sometimes intimidating Photoshop series, this express offers a huge number of tools aimed directly to the beginners.

Hi5 has cooked up something really special. It is launching its implementation of the OpenSocial platform today; the first apps will go live at noon PST. The company would be rolling out the apps very slowly, 1% of users will be able to access them at noon, and 10% by the end of the day. The first 100 who has an approved apps (there are 53 approved for launch today) will be receiving a 1 year of free hosting from the Joyent Accelerator (they may or may not have been dumped by Twitter as to be a scalability problem) and free translation