Coderplay

I made myself a little netvibes clone for my own use – mainly because netvibes is very CPU/loadtime heavy, especially when firebug is running. I’ve been trying to find feeds of my most commonly used blogs/sites. Unfortunately, many of the sites don’t offer RSS feeds. Some examples:

• Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• AJAS forums
• The Straight Dope

This post is not specifically intended to call out these sites, rather to illustrate that RSS feeds don’t have nearly the penetration that I assumed they did. This will really reduce the usefulness of my feed app. I hope more forums etc. include RSS feed outputs by default and that more site owners add RSS feeds to sites.