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Get Real-Time News with Instant Dashboards

I've always liked Netvibes - it is one of the best customizable start pages out there. Now they have added even more functionality to their service by introducing the "instant dashboard," literally a real-time look at what the web is saying about a particular topic. To create an instant dashboard in Netvibes (after you've registered, if you haven't already), just click on Dashboards, then New, then enter a keyword you want to track. Netvibes creates a page for you with information on multiple tabs. On the News tab you'll find the latest uploads to Flickr, headlines from Yahoo!, and forum discussions. There's also a tab for videos, but it's the "conversations" tab that is most interesting. It contains modules for Twitter search, Yahoo! Answers, Social Mentions, and more. The best part is that you can customize any of these tabs to include RSS feeds or other search tools that might feature information on the topic you're following. I don't think there's a limit to the number of dashboards you can create - this is a great, real-time research tool that you should definitely check out.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).