Netvibes
Netvibes is a multi-lingual Ajax-based personalized start page or personal web portal much like Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Microsoft Live.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
EUAlerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
Domain and twitter links are linked to a data science company with the same name. Not related to the mentioned app at all.
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I use android tablet.
What is Netvibes?
Netvibes is a multi-lingual Ajax-based personalized start page or personal web portal much like Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Microsoft Live.
It is organized into tabs, with each tab containing user-defined modules.
Built-in Netvibes modules include an RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, a calendar supporting iCal, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, multiple searches, support for POP3, IMAP4 email as well as several webmail providers including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail, Box.net web storage, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr photos
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Netvibes Licensing
Proprietary and Free Personal product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.Alternatives
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- English
Comments and Reviews
After importing your OPML file from Google Reader Feedly just does not let you add RSS of your own choosing, just let you pick from their selection of sources. NetVibes is the best cross platform solution I've found. The mobile version of its web app loads OK in the default Android browser but is not usable yet in Firefox for Android.
The fact that you don't understand how to add feeds doesn't mean it is not possible.
I remember trying it out and being surprised that its still online Looked like a time capsule which still mostly works
Seems to me that other than RSS, OPML, the only News web sites that you can have are Google News and Bing News, and their pre-assembled items. Can't move the tiles around. Not the flexibility I was hoping for.
If you're looking for an agregator that fetches both RSS feeds, and information streams for most of the social networks around here (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter...), then Netvibes is one of the few actors that can natively achieve this, all in one single screen.
Hootsuite can do this, too, but you'll need to ad their own add-on called "Hootsuite Syndicator" which is less flexible and less easy to use.
Also, Netvibes is about 10 years old, and owned by a big corp (Dassault Systèmes, of Catia fame), so I guess it's quite perennial compared to rcent startups in this field.
I had been using yahoo for my portal, then switched to iGoogle and it was discontinued. So I went back to Yahoo. Yahoo's new design is going to be changed so that it looks like Windows 8. That's not what I want--a half dozen squares of teasers that ask you to swipe to get another page of teasers...and so forth. Fipboard for iOS also uses the tile idea. I configured Flipboard on my iPad and am happy with it but one of those deals is enough, and I use Flipboard for a variety of narrow topics/long form reads and photo galleries. Net vibes has widgets like iGoogle did, but you can add your custom RSS feeds too. And the tabs are easy to manage. To me, this combines the best of iGoogle and the existing My Yahoo. It is a great portal to get the top of the day's news in several categories and that's just what I like to read over my first cup o' joe.
[Edited by bubbadotbubba, November 14]