I mean — there’s tighter integration for my on-line favourite RSS / news / email / widget aggregator!
With Firefox 2, there’s a way to add Netvibes, so that you can easily “subscribe” to it with a push of the button.
The netvibes blog explains it best:
The new version of the popular browser Firefox includes a fine Web feeds (RSS) reader and allows you to easily subscribe to online aggregators. If you are reading a blog or a site where feeds are available you’ll see an orange icon next to the location field with the URL.
Clicking on the icon opens the built-in reader with some default engines. Unfortunately, Netvibes is not in the default configuration which has been chosen by the Firefox developers (except in France and Poland).
Lots of you have already sent us emails to know if something can be done to fix this. Thanks to the nice people from Mozilla Links we found an easy solution for you. You’ll just have to click on the link below and voilà.
Head over to the netvibes blog if you’re interested … there are a few work arounds that seem to be necessary. I’m glad someone’s figured the whole thing out; because it was an on-line RSS reader, i was concerned support for this would never come!
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Same with Webwag.com, see their blog here: http://www.blog.webwag.com/index.php?2006/10/31/23-webwag-firefox-2
A click here (http://www.blog.webwag.com/ff2_rss_reader.htm) helps you to make Webwag your RSS feed reader in Firefox 2.
In addition Webwag helps you to import your OPML files to test Webwag and its search within my feeds (central search box powered by Yahoo).
Webwag founder is an early Google exec.
Thanks for the update.
Webwag looks an awful lot like netvibes though … ;)
You might also be interested in a brand new start page available called Funky Homepage (http://www.FunkyHomepage.com). It’s comprised mainly of Google gadgets (as well as Gadgets from other sources), live news feeds (with your choice of news provider), daily Bushisms, daily jokes, horoscopes, videos, weather (up to 5 locations), interactive calendar, Google calendar viewer (for up to 5 Google calendars), comic strips and lots more besides. It also lets you choose your own search engine, colour scheme, etc.
Unlike many of the other personalised start pages available, there’s no need to create an account and it’s all already set up for you, with the most popular gadgets organised by category and sub-category. So there’s virtually no setting-up work required by the user, making it ideal for the mainstream audience and those (like me) who can’t be bothered to do all the work of setting up their own page. More adventurous (and less lazy) users can choose to add their own Google gadgets and RSS feeds, but most people just use the gadgets and tools provided.
Unlike Netvibes, PageFlakes and all the other AJAX powered home pages, Funky Homepage does not use a drag and drop interface. Instead it allows you to select from a drop-down list of the most “popular” gadgets and feeds – “popular” according to the Google gadgets most popular list, that is. As such, it’s not really intended to compete with the flexibility of Netvibes and PageFlakes, but instead is intended to address a gap in the market for those who want something a bit more funky than Google or Yahoo, but without all the setting up required of Netvibes and Pageflakes. So only the most popular gadgets are offered. Although it still maintains a large degree of flexibility for the more adventurous users, allowing them to enter their own feeds and gadgets, should they wish. Whether you like it or hate it, at least it offers an alternative from the plethora of AJAX-powered homepages that are now available.
It’s free to use and you can check it out at http://www.funkyhomepage.com