Netvibes pioneered the personalized start page; they are now making the experience even better by adding an entirely new dimension to managing your digital life in 1 place: Multiple Personalized Pages (MPP).

Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini recently gave us a fun sneak peek at the new Netvibes MPP features, which  will go live tomorrow night  (Tuesday, May 26th).

With Multiple Personalized Pages, Netvibes users will soon be able to have an unlimited amount of pages. That means unlimited pages and unlimited tabs to remix the web however you want. From startpages and business dashboards to topic pages, public pages,  enterprise portals for large companies, and branded microsites that can be personalized by anyone (like Nissan’s 100% Urban Guide and Ogilvy’s The Daily Influence), Netvibes will let you to manage widgets and feeds on multiple pages in a fast, personalized, efficient, and organized manner.

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The last 6-12 months have been quite interesting. The credit crisis hit harder than most people expected and we now find ourselves in an unapologetic downturn. On the upside, social media (or social web) has exploded everywhere and it is now officially mindblasting.

From Facebook co-founders working for former presidential nominees, to Twitter love on Today, Colbert Report, Oprah, Super News! and Ellen, social media and anything and everything related to it has become quite the serious matter.

Celebrities have become bigger celebrities (Shaq, the real one, is now appreciated much more for his tweets than for his free throws). Congress is getting super duper good at least at something. Universities are offering social media degrees. Companies and brands are now rushing to create profiles, viral videos and YouTube apologies, blogs, forums (Verizon’s Community Forums), podcasts, plugins, iPhone apps, browser toolbars, RSS feeds, creative forms of crowdsourcing, wikis, Second life empty islands, volunteer networks (V2V + Starbucks), Adobe Air applications, entire web sites (skittles anyone?),  and ad campaigns (Burger King Whopper Sacrifice)…

The list goes on and on. And ALL of this around the idea that social media / web / interweb is the secret to generating meaningful and desperately needed cost-effective buzz.

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