Live Evaluation of Netvibes Part II

As part of my continued usage of Netvibes, my pages have evolved. The Blog tab remains but I have dropped other tabs and added new tabs (check it out here – http://www.netvibes.com/brandonp)

Under Timezone and Weather tab, I have added a weather widget which shows the weather, local date/time of countries which I need to travel to or have regular correspondence with.

The rest of the tabs are simply filled with web pages widgets of financial charts from Yahoo finance. I discovered that Yahoo has a service called ‘icharts’. If you can figure out the input parameters as part of the URL  (hint: use Yahoo Finance charts to get what you want to see first, then decipher the html source codes using your browser), you can use the URL to get a rendition of the charts from any browser or widget directly (minus the ads and other content).

As you can see from my customized Netvibes pages, I have created a series of personalized charts for my long term investment analysis. It is a big productivity tool and time-saver for me. The charts when aggregated, allows me  (a non-regular follower of the investment market) to quickly get state of the market situation.

Do you, by now, see a hint of how Netvibes could be use by the BI industry as a mgmt reporting tool? I’d love to hear your thoughts in this area.