There went the day
Netvibes is spectacular.
Email, blog and site feeds, search engines and the essential Google News Alerts (via RSS feeds) all collected together on one page that you build yourself using a fiendishly simple interface and can access from any internet connection. You even get to choose the colours.
Go get your own. Just don’t expect to be doing anything productive for the next week. Cheers for that, Donald.
(PS. Any ‘vibes users out there got any tips ‘n’ tricks? Particularly on how to get RSS feeds out of Bloglines and into Netvibes without keying them in by hand.)
Update: For anybody interested, Dave Goodman emailed with instructions for importing Bloglines feed into Netvibes - worked a treat:
Go into your bloglines. Click Edit in the right window. Scroll to the bottom and click ‘Export Subscriptions’. Save the resulting file to your desktop.
Now go to Netvibes. Click ‘Add Content’ top left. Click ‘Add My Feed’. Click the ‘Browse’ button next to your ‘Or import an OMPL file’. Find the file you just saved. Click ‘Import’.
Posted on May 12th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
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Cor! This is a bit good. I think this will stop me doing anything else I was supposed to be doing.
Cheers
Looks far too complicated. As I still don’t understand RSS I think I’ll stick to the old-fashioned “randomly visiting sites on the offchance they’ve got fresh content” model…
Yes, you’re right. It is spectacular, and I think I’m finally ‘getting’ RSS.
Today I worked out that a truly god-like overview of global ‘content’ is possible by creating a Netvibes tab specifically for Google News feeds. You just go to Google News, search for the the subject you’re interested in (UK human rights, for instance) pick up the RSS link that’s automatically generated on the left of the search results page, then plunk that into Netvibes. And repeat.
This thing must have been made by journalists. It even lets you make up your own spreads.
Nosemonkey: How are things in 1989, by the way?
Charlie: ‘Tis indeed the coolest. Shame there isn’t a facility on Google for converting existing New Alerts into RSS URLs though - I’ve got hundreds of the buggers.
I’m going to be ugrading from the old BBCB to a BBC Master fairly soon. That’ll be able to run Chucky Update and Repton 3 without freezing on the higher levels, plus I’m getting a 64 colour monitor to go with it. I r teh compootar king.
Hmm, interesting. Don’t like the way Netvibes and Bloglines displays each feed separately, I’ve got so used to linear additions to the feed when something is added.
Nice and intuitive though. Shall we try and explain feeds to NM in words of one syllable?