Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Netvibes and other aggregators

Netvibes offers a personalized page to receive and organize feeds, podcasts, modules (games, clock, etc.), tabs (indexing). The idea of personalizing your feed aggregator seems good—Netvibes fits a lot more on one screen than Google Reader; that’s one problem I have with Google Reader—not enough visible on a screen. But Netvibes is very busy as a result; it also seems very commercial and very American. It seemed to give you the choice of feeds rather than expecting you to go and find feeds you would like--in that way, it is less personalized! I wonder to what extent one could redesign its appearance?

Rojo will be back “zoon” and did not work when I tried it. I looked through the Rss Readers and Aggregators listed on Yahoo! --too much choice out there; but is it really all that distinct?

1 comment:

Iris' Library said...

Hi Jill,

It seems that Netvibes should offer a search-and-found function for the feeds. As for me, most of the time I can't remember the URLs of the feeds I'm interested, but I usually have the names.