Over the past three or four years, I've tried out a number of news readers/aggregators. Some, like pluck were pretty much just an annoyance (all the toast pop-ups were just silly) and others like Bloglines left me kind of cold. Its not that bloglines doesn't work well, rather, it just never felt all that comfortable to me. That might not make a lot of sense, but for the past year and a half I've been using Netvibes and I've come to love it.
In part, I think this is due to the fact that Netvibes allows users to turn on a few other features that I like quite a bit - namely the latest images from flickr, and a notes-space. Plus, surfing through what the developers are doing at Netvibes is always interesting.
Also, the Ajax interface for setting up the tabs, ordering the pages and moving things around is not only easy to use but quite elegant. I'd have to say that I'm a huge fan of Netvibes. The only feature I haven't been able to either figure out or find is the ability to allow other users to see a 'read only' version of your netvibes ecosystem. To me, this would be a great asset for educators. In particular, I've had a number of discussions with media specialists and they are very intrigued by the possibility of setting up a netvibes page where students could log into a read only version to see the links, etc., but without the ability to make changes.
I've read that you can do this with pageflakes , but I haven't tried it. Moreover, the developer community seems so much mroe active around Netvibes that I'd hate to recommend something else for one feature. If anyone knows how to setup netvibes as I've described, let me know...
So what should we do