I know there are enterprise slutions, not web 2.0 though?

My devlopment team and I have undertaken a project to fill this gap,,its personal portals devloped with security for the business in mind - http://www.ovosuite.com.

We are still in private beta but will have a public beta on the 12th June.

It will be intersting to see how this is acceppted by the community, as many people may think its just another portal, but from what ive seen no-one is delivering what we are..?

I understand the problem. My take is that it should work without JavaScript as well, and that there should be a button for manually refreshing the feeds.

I’d also like some tools to change the look and feel of Netvibes - colour schemes, fonts and so on…

Thank you very much!

I understand where you’re coming from then. To me, following RSS feeds are vital, hence my focus and need for it. And yes, it will definitely be interesting to see which services that will make it.

I’m afraid I’m still sticking with tried ‘n’ true Google, despite your convincing case for Netvibes. Mainly it’s because my needs are simple and Google meets them. But I also wonder how many of these services will be around in a year or two. Also, I just don’t put very much weight on how well start pages like this handle RSS. Once you get past a certain number of feeds you really need a dedicated reader anyway. I have just three RSS feeds on my Google start page, just those I want to keep a fairly close eye on. I could just as easily use FF’s live bookmarks for this, but keeping them on Google reduces the clutter.

But I certainly will keep an open mind and am rooting for Netvibes and some of the others like Pageflakes, Homeportal, etc., to stick it out and improve. I hope you’ll continue to cover this corner of Web 2.0 because you did a great job.

Yes, it’s very nice. One thing I really miss though is to mark all feeds as read.

Cool!

I’m sorry to hear that. Please send your feedback to feedback@netvibes.com.

Thank you! I tried GMail together with Netvibes, and the only thing it seems to do is show you unread messages.

trovster,

Thanks! Start does change the color of visited links through CSS, but that doesn’t help the slightest if you use different computers.

I love that Google opens the links directly to the web site in question, but on the other hand, I really want to be able to at least read the first paragraph of the post before going to the web site. Very rarely the title of the post is sufficient to tell if it’s readworthy or not (except for my posts, of course, who are all very readworthy… ;-)).

I’d advise you to try Netvibes out, you might like it!

Solon,

Well, try it and let me know if you think I tricked you into it!

I also tried out Start, which looks a lot nicer, didn’t have the integration with gmail. However, saying that I don’t know whether I actually need that, coz I always have gmail open and then desktop notifier too!

There were two major put-offs with Start. First of all the major factor of not highlighting visited-links. Seriously, with a large set of links this is invaluable. Secondly, the fact it opened links within the site, the formatting was hellish and I’d prefer the original.

I have not used the Yahoo! one, and from that little screenshot, I’ll probably avoid it. It looks very early 90s to me.

As for Netvibes. I’ve tried it, it looks nice, has some nice features. But the simplicity of Google just kept me there. I’m also a little anxious about it reading my emails.