Why NetVibes is my new news aggregator
May 4th, 2006
It’s been a longtime since I’ve used any news aggregator (I used to have one of my own back in 2000/2001) and I haven’t seriously thought about sticking with any. Until I saw NetVibes. This is what I like:
- Clean. A lot of the news aggregators seem determined to pack as much information as possible.
- Fast. It just feels fast, just like an AJAX application should.
- Complete. It has a nice selection of widgets including weather, mail, search, calendar access, useful integrated feed reader.
I’ve seen only one bug so far (low for a beta), but a fairly annoying one – feed URLs get reset sometimes when moving boxes around.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Mike | May 5th, 2006 at 8:19 am
I have tried http://www.pageflakes.com and their RSS reader. It also has a very nice and clean navigation and feel to it. NV is good too though.
2. Misho | May 5th, 2006 at 8:27 am
Did you see http://www.pageflakes.com?
3. Evgueni Pervago | May 5th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Mike, Misho:
Thanks for the pointer to pageflakes. It has a similar clean feel to NetVibes, actually the UI is very similar. And the widget selection seems to be better.
I’ll give it a try and do a comparison in the next days.
4. El Ruso » NetVibes &hellip | May 6th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
[...] After praising NetVibes in my earlier post, several people pointed to PageFlakes as an alternative. So I’ve decided to do an informal comparison of the two content aggregators: [...]
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