Posts Tagged ‘Netvibes’

What started as a Facebook app has grown into a full-fledged stand-alone service that lets you make scrapbooks (of sorts) from web content you find interesting or have created elsewhere on the web. RadWebTech has just launched Scrapplet, an alternative to services like Netvibes or even Tumblr, as it lets you collect items from across the web as well as integrated content from social networking and microblogging sites.
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In the web startpage niche, Netvibes is among the pioneers in the market. And when web widgets became popular, Netvibes was also among those who join the bandwagon and have been offering personalized widgets. But then again, web startpage platforms were never really given too much publicity and hype despite being one important aspect of the web 2.0 world as compared to social networking sites. It is no wonder that Netvibes decided to join the social networking bandwagon by partnering up with who else, but the second most popular social network – Facebook. Read more

Today I will start a new chapter on my blog – Netvibes vs. Pageflakes. I will try to write about these two online RSS readers which I think is very similar to each other but I want to decide which one is better. Every post will be about some features who are in both startpages to be able to compare them.

My first post will be about popularity of these two RSS aggregators. I will use Alexa traffic rankings to show the stats of Netvibes and Pageflakes.

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