I love netvibes.com. It’s a great way to keep track of blogs and other websites that you regularly visit that have rss feeds. Up until this point I had not found an feed reader that I felt comfortable using, but this one is near perfect. You can set it to open links in the actual website. One of my complaints about other feed readers is that you may miss out on the graphics, colors and photographs the bloggers use on their sites and thus miss out on the individual personal touches in the blogosphere.
You can click these screenshots to see them full-size, if you are interested.
This is my home netvibes page. The image in the upper right-hand corner is my fish tank. It’s one of the modules created by another netvibes user. It’s adorable. You can customize the fish colors and feed the fishies and watch them swim around. I’m a sucker for stuff like this.
I like to stay current on the L.A. culture and Hollywood gossip. It eases my occasional homesickness a bit.
My Wall Street Journal feed page.
You can change the number of columns and the width of the modules. You can move the modules around by clicking and dragging them around on the page and even between tabs.
I certainly don’t use netvibes to it’s full potential. There are lots of other modules you can add, and you can create your own to share or keep to yourself. They recently introduced Netvibes Universe…
Soon, every single Netvibes user will be able to create a personal Netvibes Universe, that is, a Netvibes page that you can build using the content and widgets that you want — and make it available to the world at large.
Netvibes users will soon have two pages for every account: a private page, where you subscribe to all the content for your personal, everyday use, and a public page, where you can allow others to access your favorite content — everything that you love on the web.
Netvibes will not only be your start page, but also the page where people who know you (and maybe even some who don’t) will go to follow all the feeds, widgets, and sites that you recommend.
As you can see it’s highly customizable and fun to use. Take a look and see if netvibes might work for you, too.
