Netvibes.com folks are constantly listening to users opinions and ideas to improve their functionalities and features. Netvibes has also introduces new sidebar, podcast and many other exciting and useful features. Let us look at those improvements.

Sidebar

The new Netvibes sidebar allows you to log in, register, find great content, and navigate Universes all in a single click.

With the new sidebar, you can now register for Netvibes, sign in, and find many helpful links for adding feeds and widgets to your page. Netvibes categories has been added to the sidebar, so that your favorite types of content can be found easily - Feeds, Basic widgets, Communication, Search, Applications, and External widgets. Just look at the screenshot on the left. That’s a great enhancement.

Podcast Player

Postcast has bofeen widely use. A lot us are listening to postcast more than ever. The updated Podcast and mp3 player on Netvibes has a cool new interface. It allows you to adjust the volume of the audio right within Netvibes.

Interface

The interface has been improved to make the site more user friendly. The delete buttons on tabs was removed and moved it to the tab options to prevent accidental clicks. The sign in function was moved to the sidebar from the top right hand corner of the site.

Performance

Using Netvibes previously was a painful experience at the peak hours. The loading of the site was slow. Considering the fact that I subscribe to more than 500 feeds. I have more than 50 feeds in each tabs. Netvibes has enhance the performance and speed to make its site loads faster. Some bugs were also fixed.

500 Netvibes Universe

More than 500 Netvibes Universes were released 4 days ago. These specialized pages provide themed content for brands, media, artists, non-profits, and many more.

With Netvibes Universes, you can:

1. Keep tabs on your favorite musicians like Beyoncé, Gnarls Barkley and Jamiroquai.
2. Read the latest news from leading media outlets like the Wired, PC World, Les Echos and El Pais.
3. Check out the cool widgets from top web services like Shopping.com and Zoho on their Universes.

The Universes section of the Netvibes ecosystem was revamped too. It is full of colorful thumbnails and a gorgeus new slideshow in place. Now, you can easily find Universes via categories. Great stuff.

Great work by Netvibes.com. The improvements is very much desired as I’m a heavy user of Netvibes.

Do you use Netvibes? Share with me what you like about the enhancement.