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Netvibes, the leading startup in the personalized homepage space has launched a new version of its personalized homepage, the Coriander Edition. The newly added features are:

• Upgraded Netvibes Feed Reader with multimedia capabilities
• New instant sharing feature that allows users to share feeds, modules and their pages via email or instant messaging
• Netvibes2Go, the beta preview of Netvibes mobile ediiton
• Craigslist and Map Search modules
• Quick start assistants, for newbies.
• Massive internationalization push, with support for 30 new languages, raising the tally to 80 languages supported

The new RSS Reader is dubbed as “Really Sexy Syndication” by Netvibes founder Tariq Krim because it now features games, podcasts, music, photos, videos and live sharing capabilities. Although i will never use a feed reader in a personlized homepage as a module, just like you will never read emails in a personalized homepage. The reason is simple, you can´t keep track of, and easily browse through a large amount of content (mails or feeds alike). However you could still add an email or feed module to your page just to keep real time track of whats going on from a single location.

The guys at Netvibes are really working hard, they just launched Universal Widget API, that promises developers the ability to write a widget once and run it anywhere. However battle in the personalized homepage is getting intense by the day, with Pagflakes, Google, Microsoft and My.Netscape all fighting to carve a market segment for themselves.

I didnt mentioned MyYahoo the market leader above as it already has a huge user base of 50 million. But Netbvibes is growing fast with 10 million (claimed) users, so stay tuned.