I was really excited by the potential of Netvibes but am less thrilled but what I have come up with. I am probably not thinking it all through but I seem to be just collecting links with thumbnails and presenting them. Not thrilling.
Then I worked out how to get the webpage to display when they don't have a thumb nail. I used a combination of the different kinds of links to make it more visually appealing. I can see how you could spend a lot of time tinkering with this.
I tried to find ways to link to photos but couldn't find that without going through flickr and not all my photos are on flickr --they are on my home computer or on Facebook. There were many widgets which would link me to others photos which I was not interested in. Hmm.
I can see how this could be well used by libraries but it takes a lot of time to learn how to do it well -- you need to get you own widgets (which scares me, I'll admit). And you need to spend time thinking about what to put on the pages, how they are laid out and all that.
But it also does allow templates and it is much easier than trying to code it yourself. So I have mixed feelings about it.
As an end note: Omaha public library is going to be changing it's website so I might lose a lot of my links.
