As I just said - it’s great to see NetVibes growing.

But I doubt it’ll ever give Stowe Boyd the centralized, organzing DLA he’s been wishing for. It’s not that NetVbes doesn’t rock - or that it’ll give folks a nice little hub/Dashboard/Konfabulator interface to play with.

But I’m afraid that (at most) that’s as far as NetVibes will go. There really is more to organzing your digital lifestyle - than customizing a dashboard. Clearly that’s a key feature - but far from everything you need.

That’s what we’re working on here at Broadband Mechanics.

And if there was ever any doubt - tha’s what we’re building for our customers.

We’ve defined this ’solution’ to your dis-organized digital lifestyle - as something we call a DLA (digital lfiestyle aggregator.)

And here are some key assumptions:

1. YES - it’s crucial to have a customizable dashboard - ala NetVibes. OK - so that’s feature #1.

2. But the new paradgm of tools demands that it’s tightly integrated in with an on-line community - so that means social networking. Feature #2.

3. THEN we gotta move beyond where the blogpshere is today - call it Structured Blogging, podcasting, microformats, Vlogging, Comet, Y! 360 - whatever - it’s more than just publishing a block of text. Technically it’s called microcontent publishing. Feature #3.

4. Then there’s this thing called Identity. Check out what Dick Hardt has to say and then come back here and say - “OK - that’s feature #4″ - humans gotta control their data and decide what happens with their Attention and Identity.

5. Then there’s these things called open standards. A crucial building block for forming an open mesh of developers - ALL who can benefit from the notion of DLA.

I could go on and on - but the point is “Yes - NetVibes rocks” - but it’s just a start. That’s what the GoingOn Network is all about.

BTW we’re in alpha right now. Those interested in playing with it - please contact me.

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