I subscribe to a fairly large number of RSS feeds and have been using IE7 to subscribe and manage them and have grown frustrated with the time it takes to rapidly scan my feeds for pertinent information.
Then I found a service called NetVibes. NetVibes is a web based service that lets you creates pages of feeds that you can look at like a snapshot. You can even create multiple tabs based on topics or other categories.
In addition NetVibes has all kinds of little widgets you can put on a page like weather, calendar, to do lists and more. Another cool thing NetVibes provides is the ability to drag around your various feeds and widgets to the location or even the tab you want them in.
This has sped up my information scanning and targeting tremendously. Another site that offers a similar service is called Pageflakes.
Great post! I too have a lot of RSS feeds. I use and love Pageflakes, have you seen their RSS reader "mode"? In Pageflakes, in the upper right hand corner on the menu is the "Reader" button. Click it and Pageflakes turns into a really great full-screen RSS reader.
ReplyDeleteI tried pageflakes very briefly and then got hooked on Netvibe. Thanks for the comment!
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