Netvibes - an online rss reader
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Netvibes
Netvibes is one of the oldest widget sites I know founded in 2005,quite before Google started to use them in their user personalized pages. I was their member from nearly their start (together with Sage? )
According to the page :
Netvibes is
a personalized dashboard publishing platform for the Web including
digital life management, widget distribution services and brand
observation rooms.
Netivibes requires a free subscription to explore its facilities
Look a bit for igoogle.com or my.yahoo.com to
understand on how it looks . It is quite similar but with slightly
different layout Below is a screen shot of this page in the widgtes
view:
There is a standard page with some standard widgets ,all adjustable but you can add your tabs with more personalized widgets including some subscriptions . Add a drag and drop facility to have a further look !
Netvibes can identify the original RSS XML file from a given web/blog address
This is the widget view
IN
each RSS search widget you can immediately look the last 7 hits , and
though this is adjustable with more views(heads , minimal info , thumbs
picture …..) this is the optimal solution. With more than 7 hits there
are not any results
Also , Netvibes offers reader view
The reader view replaces widgets with feed files and tabs with dirs
The reader view replaces widgets with feed files and tabs with dirs
.
It is still a simple reader that offers the news feeds in reverse
time, with ability to bookmark (ie later watching ) and also share the
news to Facebook !
The browsing speed is blazingly fast
, more than 2 times from Brief. I found that Net vibes doanloads ther
feeds in batches of 10s then waits a bit utll loading the next
10batches
About RAM consuming : it consumes very little memory even if more than 400 feeds are shown
IN order to clean the feed
from any news is a bit strange . it requires two clicks from the reader
menu,but still the cleaned(read ) feeds are shown .If there are more
han 250 items shown , the reader freezes a bit - about 10 -15 secs ,
then goes back to operation
In sites with very heavy feeding as Engadget and Gizmodo I m unsure if they recive all this matieral . Nearly everyday i see no more than 150 news items
IN a more rich site it displays the last 500 feeds while other programs can offer only the last 300 postings
For Greek language which has 4 font versions, several sites are not shown correctly
In sites with very heavy feeding as Engadget and Gizmodo I m unsure if they recive all this matieral . Nearly everyday i see no more than 150 news items
IN a more rich site it displays the last 500 feeds while other programs can offer only the last 300 postings
For Greek language which has 4 font versions, several sites are not shown correctly
The
last retrieved feed on netvibes has a delay of ca 40 minutes fromt he
time it posted. IN other cases up to 3 hours in contrast to the other
programs or plug ins who are displaying for at least
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