Since my last post, warm advice came my way and started playing (again) with Netvibes, which is undoubtedly the closest to my dreamed 2.0 “portal”.
It’s great, love the tabbed interface, has grown a lot since I first saw it in terms of content and community, but it still doesn’t quite fulfill my dreams.
One of the reasons why I haven’t and cannot switch over is that it handles and displays feeds its own way. I imported my feeds from Google Reader via an OPML file, they loaded great, but the interface cannot replace that of Google Reader – not judging quality, but I am just too used to its interface, it’s the most comfortable one I found so far.
When I spoke of a “box to handle my feeds”, I had in mind one big box which would open my google reader window as is (showing by default the left column and expandable in order to read when i wanted to, but NOT yet another Feed Reader)
I see NetVibes as yet another 2.0 app. A really good one, but another app. I need an app to gather the ones I use, not another one. I will start using it again because, for now, it’s a good as I can get – and it’s really good.
Perhaps this is a technological dream that cannot be quite done (I doubt it), but everyday I open at least 6 tabs in Firefox and load the 2.0 sites I use daily. I can open them all at once, yes, but still have a window full of tabs when I really need just part of the content of each.
And it is often I find more and more sites, and the amount of tabs keeps growing… or I simply give up, and stop using them.
Are we facing a 2.0 overload, another kind of information overload, where we have access to so many ways of sharing, doing, seeing, etc in so different many places that it exceeds our capacity of handling it?
