Comments on: netvibes Vs Google Reader

By: What is Twiter?

What is Twiter? — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:31:37 +0000

[...] just about anywhere so I can keep an eye on the conversation. I can even add a Twitter widget to my netvibes/ RSS feed reader so that I can read and communicate with educators, friends and family all over the [...]

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Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:22:35 +0000

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By: Evil Sue Hickton

Evil Sue Hickton — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:47:26 +0000

Hi Alex – after reading this, I may have to give Netvibes ago Sue Waters may hate me now LOL

Sue

By: Kate Foy

Kate Foy — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:39:47 +0000

Oops, started blogging too early this morning. Excuse the sloppy posting above. It was Frances who is luring us with the delights of Pageflakes, and not Laura. And of course I meant ‘ratio’ not ‘ration’ when referring to the balance between form and fuction. Can you tell I’m an academic!

Went back for another look at Pageflakes earlier today, and became fascinated by the weather maps … Now if only it really would rain in Australia like those pretty little clouds say it will.

By: Kate Foy

Kate Foy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:51:40 +0000

Google Reader or Netvibes?
Well, I’ve been playing with Netvibes, and as one of the first to say I dig aesthetics, I’ve not found the form/function ration right for me with Netvibes. It’s pretty, but it doesn’t work as well when I am both speed-reading, skimming, or delving into a big feed reader. I appreciate contextual action response such as Google Reader gives you i.e., you don’t need to navigate away to read, so for me? It’s Google Reader.

And today, Pageflakes (another very pretty) entered the arena from Laura. I’m fussing round with that today.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:48:25 +0000

Hi Christine,
That’s strange. I assume you have a log-in and everything? I’ll keep an eye out for that. Thanks for the heads up!
Alex

By: Christine Martell

Christine Martell — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:18:04 +0000

Alex,
My newfound Netvibes love is wavering. The visual quality wins hands down, but I’m having trouble with the blogs I follow resetting ie: I read them and later they are coming up as unread again. Now, I use multiple computers across both platforms, so I wonder if that is making a difference? Maybe this Google/Netvibes Mac/PC thing is all playing out on my computers!

By: Cammy Bean

Cammy Bean — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:02:45 +0000

I started with Google Reader and I’m just staying at this point. And you can “drag” and drop items into different tabs in Google Reader. But I do have NetVibes Rainbow palette envy. It’s sure pretty….

By: Alex Miller

Alex Miller — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:48:01 +0000

Hi Sue,
Yes that’s what I meant, but I was thinking the operating system side of things, Windows Vs OS X. It’s the operation that matters I think.

Hi Eklavya,
I don’t use Google Reader enough to elaborate on the difference. I have found that you can read the full blog post you subscribe to using Google Reader (as shown in Sue’s movie) without navigating away from that page. Netvibes is slightly different in that you have to navigate away to read the entire post, although you do get the option of seeing the entire website and commenting within a frame in netvibes. I just like the drag and drop and the themes that netvibes offers. Other Aggregators don’t seem as pretty!

As for which you should prefer, who I am to tell you that? You should try them both and see which suits your needs – I think netvibes is the best . You can start by clicking on the netvibes button in my post and previewing it. You should sign up for a netvibes account first, then add to your page
Alex.

By: Eklavya

Eklavya — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:12:55 +0000

Well, I never heard about Netvibes before. It looks quite like Google Reader. Can you please elaborate a bit what exactly the difference between them and in your opinion which should we prefer ?

Thanks