What is Reddit's opinion of Netvibes?

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Try netvibes. You may find it suitable.

This isn't a great picture, but you get the idea. I liked it more than iGoogle, but ended up losing the habit of using it.

A steady diet of podcasts. You learn something and the traffic becomes background to your entertainment. Here is my listening list.

Try netvibes.com It may not look like igoogle at first glance but it really is and more, its what i use personally, its better than ighome imo. Here is what my page looks like for example.

I agree - I haven't found a suitable replacement for it as a user-customizable home page with gmail integration, etc.

EDIT: I guess I could have looked first. Here are a couple:

http://www.ustart.org/

http://www.netvibes.com/en

Could look into http://www.netvibes.com/en and see if that does it for you. It's web based. However, RSS is a way to link to content, not save content. It's basically aggregated headlines that makes it easier to monitor multiple sources, so saving articles and full article access are kind of beyond its scope.

You could save articles via stuff like Instapaper after you have followed a link to it from your RSS feeds, perhaps. Install an Instapaper plugin to your browser, go to the specialized news site and then use Instapaper to save the content. Or, for that matter, OneNote, that can also be used to clip entire pages.

Netvibes is an online RSS reader, i.e. in the browser. Do not mind that the site is shooting itself in the foot by making such an uninviting front page, in order to make some sales. The free version is plenty.

If you're not satisfied by the many alternatives to iGoogle (Startme, Netvibes , igHome, etc...), you can always try to design your custom homepage! It's not so difficult nowadays, although knowing the very basics of HTML is a plus if you want to add widgets and such.

This is really true. Newest tech products are always consumer focused - no ESTABLISHED company is looking at the latest and greatest gadget to buy for employees. Why do you think you see so many of those plain black Thinkpads being carried around? Because they're like tanks - they're thick and ugly and can be dropped and spilled on and still last forever.

So, assuming you're in IT and trying to keep up with the trends - there's no single source that will cover everything. I'd encourage you to load up a web dashboard (like http://www.netvibes.com/) and just bring all of the sources to a single point.

Your best bet is probably Google Custom Search, where you can create your own search engine, to which you can add entire websites by domain or individual URLs. When you search for a certain term, just sort by date, and you'll get the newest pages.

Specifically for news, you could try a combination of Google Alerts and an RSS reader like Netvibes.com. Just set up a Google News alert for a keyword or search term, select output as RSS and add it to the RSS reader. That way, you can build a page with streams of pages that are newly added to Google news and relevant to your search terms.

I LOVE podcasts. Straight from my RSS reader, which is how I manage my podcasts, here is my list. It has 2/3rds of the ones listed in this LPT and a ton that aren't listed but are crazily informative.

I wonder the same thing. I get categorized and highly specific news sources. I even have a separate sports page that follows specific sports sources that I care about (such as specific to my favorite baseball team).

I don't understand... are people wasting their time going to each site individually and looking at general headlines? Are they simply not reading news?

You can roll your own solution using rss of course, but that just sucks compared to the managed quality of igoogle.

Edit: I have been looking for alternatives, this is the best I have found so far: http://www.netvibes.com

I looked for an alternative to iGoogle a few years back before realizing I just wanted my own RSS reader (ended up using tinytinyrss). But I assume you want some sort of landing page with widgets to complement your RSS feeds. In that case, I remember there being a few alternatives out there. Netvibes is the first that pops up off the top of my head but when I tested it a few years ago, but it felt a lot slower than iGoogle. I don't know if that has changed. Pageflakes is another I remember looking into but looking it up right now seems to show that it actually went down a few years ago.

Well, its the same as your front page (assuming you suscribe to everything you have shortcuted), but categorized by subreddit. RES goes to each subreddit/multireddit and snatches 5-15 stories and puts it into a box. You can use the little tabs to sort by New, Controversial, or Top. Its something like Netvibes for reddit.

You don't get quite the random, happy-go-lucky feeling from the frontpage, but its a great method to monitor multiple subreddits.

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I haven't tested them, just going by what they are advertising -- which can always be inflated.

Good luck.

I use http://www.netvibes.com/ and have my different vendors come in. Problem is Cisco EoS a 'shite' load of products all the time. The others get drowned out if you put them into the same feed. netvibes shows you individual feeds.... great tool....

Even if google did work, a problem with google is that they feed you what "they think" you will like to see based on what they know about you from your previous visits. So there is a good chance you'll miss something. Here is a screenshot of what I see when I search google news for trump http://imgur.com/a/FxCdJ compare it against your own results.

You might try to use an RSS reader like RSSOwl and add feeds from the news services like Reuters and Associated Press or whomever is the newswire service where you live. You can also add your google news search feeds if you like as well as blogs and places like the NYTimes or other newspapers.

Then you can search your feeds in RSSOwl maybe? I know I can search across all feeds in Liferea but that is linux only and RSSOwl is Windows/Linux/Mac and I don't use it.

This is an interesting site that searches for RSS feeds. https://ctrlq.org/rss/ Give it a try and see if it finds any interesting sources of news for you to add to your feeds.

Edit: I forgot to add http://www.netvibes.com/ this is a web based rss aggregator similar to the old google.com/ig. Netvibes will help you add feeds and it will figure out adding them for you.

Along the same lines but with a twist:

OP, use this as an opportunity to do some research on your field. LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google... all full of the information you're looking for. How better to flex your data mining muscles than to use them on yourself?

Here's a resource to get you started: http://www.netvibes.com/en

There was, though it wasn't on the wiki. It was on netvibes & google calendar. Those accounts are still open so I'll look into it for you.

EDIT: Yup here is the Netvibes which also displays the Google calendar but it has so many outdated entries I'll need to clean that up.

EDIT 2: Here is the big Calendar, but don't take it too seriously, I need to check up on the events.

If your looking for alternative to igoogle

Netvibes

A bit slower then igoogle but has more features.

I should add one thing if you want a link to open at the site it came from you you have to click the edit bolt next to the X on the top right of each feed and check Open directly on the site. I know this is a big pain to do on every feed but that's the way they have it set up.

I made a Netvibes page for our agency with all of our favourite sites in various sectors - http://www.netvibes.com/billingtoncartmell

I think it's a useful tool for anyone involved in the industry really.

I jumped to netvibes some time ago. Ignore all the "dashboard" non-sense the site talks about... it's mainly an RSS aggregator. It's quite cool in a lot of ways (i like that I can publicly expose groups of feeds, for example), but probably doesn't address a lot of the complaints here.

Bloglines used to be awesome, but then stagnated for a long time, never quite finishing their AJAX interface... and then was going to be shut down, but I think got new owners? I wonder if anything's going on over there these days.

This is a very good fantasy baseball resource. Last year I read on article on here that predicted that Jose Batista would have a monster year.