I published my London (UK) Tab in Netvibes ecosystem

Hi,

after my discussion on "How to prepare a Trip to London (Uk) with Netvibes", I published my TAB in the Netvibes Ecosystem.

You can find it here: London UK Tab for Netvibes.

Contents:
Londonist
UK Holidays
Mobissimo Travel
London Logue
Travelocity
Art Events in London this month - All In London
Kayak Search
Exhibitions in London this month - All In London
lastminute.com Entertainment
BBC News - England
Lastminute - Holidays top deals
Telegraph - Breaking news
Telegraph - Travel
BBC News - News Front Page
Lonely Planet
Museum of London Group upcoming events
Google Map
The London Symphony Orchestra News
Children and Family Events London this month - All In London
The London Philharmonic Orchestra News
Our Pick of Events in London this month - All In London
All In London News Feed - July 2007
All In London Entertainment News Feed - July 2007
London Daily Photo
Guardian Unlimited
This Is Local London Top Stories
BBC News Entertainment
Yahoo! UK Movies
Google Maps Search
UK Traffic & Travel News
London Baroque News

A tab to prepare your trip to LONDON (UK) with more than widgets, feeds and links: Weather, What to do, News, Blogs, Maps, Best deals, Traffic, Links, ...

I published it the 25th of July but it is not verified yet...

How to prepare a trip to London (UK) with Netvibes

Hi,

Let's assume I want to prepare a trip , say, to: LONDON, UK. How can Netvibes help me?
(Here is what I wrote about "Travel with Netvibes ")

If I know well Netvibes, I will do:

1) First, I select local content in SETTINGS/ LOCAL CONTENT/EUROPE/ UNITED KINGDOM
2) Then I must go to the ADD CONTENT/ FEEDS/ FEATURED FEEDS. There I have a selection of 12 Feeds on UK in general , (5 from the BBC)
3) if I go for ADD/CONTENT/FEED DIRECTORY by clicking on each of the tab I will get a few Uk feeds more spiecialized in Travel, Entertainment, Internet... But nothing on LONDON , so now I go for the Netvibes Ecosystem.

4) there I search for London, or better I choose the Tag London and I have more than 60 results.

The first interesting is the i-m-tro module by Patrice, where by choosing the city you want to travel (Londo, Paris, Ny, ...) you have a search module helping you to find your way in the public transportation systems of more 250+ cities around the world! I select London, UK.
Now to go from Waterloo station to Trafalgar square, I choose:
Waterloo (and the module proposed me 3 choices) and Trafalgar ( and the module proposed me to complete with square) I can then add the Day and the our to use the Tube. I could have checked or not the following choices: Tube, DLR, River Service , First Capital Connect,Croydon, C2C , Silverlink , Southwest Trains , Southern , Southend, ONE South Eastern Trains , First Great Western , Airport Services by train or Airport Services by bus.

This is result is:
Waterloo International Station - Trafalgar Square (Sunday 20:00)
Best routeTime about 14 minutes - 0 connection(s)
At Waterloo International Station -->Walk to -->Waterloo -->Take Northern Line (Char.C.)Direction High BarnetMill Hill EastEdgwareNorthbound
Get off at -->Charing Cross -->Walk to -->Trafalgar Square

Impressive! Looks complete but as I am not from London I needsomone to check it in the real world!

5) Then I could choose a TAB UK TRANSPORT containing a selection of UK transport news feeds. But the only interesting are Feeds from Google News and Technorati that I will modify myself to have more precise news on London.

6) Then I have feeds, a lot of them, but many are for London cities in the USA ! I select instead a few feeds on London Orchestras.

7) Then I search for TRAVEL on Netvibes Ecosystem and I have more than 130 results. I go for the Tabs and I found TRAVEL: with just 3 Widgets: Mobissimo, a travel search widget, nice and sober that gives results in the widget.; Travelocity, another travel search widget that opens an external windows with the results. I added myself another Travel search Widget: Kayak search (that opens also in external windows).

8) There was also a Google map Widget ( a few to choose from : Google Map and Search that can search sushi, hotels, pizzas, coffes shop (Well American style food...); Google map by Cristophe (simple and clear) .

9) Then with the Netvibes Search Widget I looked for "LONDON BLOGS" and I selected: the Directory of London Bloggers amazing how many you can have! My preferred are LONDONIST and LONDON LOGUE.

10) Then from the ADD CONTENT of Netvibes I added the Weather Widget, A calendar for UK Holydays, A London Daily Photos .... I add also a TRAFIC TRAVEL NEWS UK Widget,

In my new TAB : LONDON (UK) I have now 38 from Widgets and Feeds all setted on LONDON. I will publish it in the Netvibes ecosystem so that if others are interested, they will not lose my 3-4 hours of work.

Still, I am sure that something is missing.

Let me know.

TRAVEL with NETVIBES

Hi,

I continue to search for the Content offered by Netvibes. (started here)

Now, if I consider Netvibes as a good Platform for my content (as Netvibes can be accessed by PC and Macs, IE and FireFox, ADSL and Mobile ) one of the first uses I will want to explore as a Netviber is : TRAVEL with NETVIBES.

In that case I would like to find on my Netvibes Page the following:

1. Maps,
2. Travel guides,
3. Accomodations
4. Restaurants
5. Shopping
6. Tips,
7. Time Tables,
8. Local News,
9. Event list,
10. Weather forecasts,
11. Booking facility,
12. Pictures and videos,
13. Places to go,
14. Calendar,
15. Email checking and sending
16. Usefull numbers-links,
17. selection of Local Blogs,
18. Social opportunities and why not:
19. job opportunities,
20. short rentings,
21. children activities
22. sport facilities,....

All the above will be set just for my needs giving me just the info I need where I need it.

I know it is a lot but in a way or another we need all need that. It could be a huge market!

And with Netvibes (or a similar pernsonalized page) I could travel with it, or just consult it in an internet cafe'. I could also use it by printing some of it.

Of course, Google, Yahoo ore other sites are offering something like that but everything is their choice: take it or leave it.

I would prefer my own selection, with my page organized as I want it : with the weather coming from different sources and placed on the top right, the local news on the left, the webcam of the day in the middle, and....

But can Netvibes help me in planning and enjoying my trip ?

Will see it in another discussion...