Comments on: Five Tools To Base Your Online Life Around

By: Dave Fleet

Dave Fleet — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:40:01 +0000

Hamish – I haven’t really used NetVibes much, although I like the way it looks. It does seem to have more customization potential than iGoogle.

I suspect (as with many RSS readers) that they’re probably largely equivalent to each other, and it would come down to personal preference.

By: Hamish Knox

Hamish Knox — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:07:48 +0000

What do you think about NetVibes? I’ve used it since February and a colleague, who used to use iGoogle switched to NetVibes because of the easier functionality.

By: Bryan Person

Bryan Person — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:15:11 +0000

Dave, pretty similar toolset for me, although I’ve been inconsistent in my use of iGoogle. I’ve also essentially given up on Technorati and stick with Google Blog Search.

I have another tool that you might like just as much — or more — than Tweetscan: http://summize.com/ It also does real-time search for terms, handles threads nicely, can break out posts by languages, offers RSS feeds, etc. It doesn’t seem to offer a daily e-mail report, though you could always keep Tweetscan for that.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:36:14 +0000

I use all of these tools. I especially live by Twitter and del.icio.us!

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By: Jeff Stephens

Jeff Stephens — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:46:17 +0000

Dave – I use the same tools. I’d give an extra shout out to Google Alerts. I have dozens of Alerts set up for clients, reporters, topics, etc. Good way to find discussions happening on sites, blogs, etc that you may not already subscribe to via RSS.

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:14:36 +0000

Useful posting, Dave. I particularly agree with your point about blog search engines. I’m constantly surprised at the number of people who don’t even know blog search engines exist. They’re indispensable for finding out what’s going on related to any subject that is a bit too “niche” for the mainstream media.

One thing you’ve probably noticed is that different blog search engines return different results. Thus, you may find it useful to check out the blog search capability at Zuula (www.zuula.com), which makes it easy to check blog search results at all the leading blog search engines.

You also may find Zuula a powerful tool for general web search as well.

All the best!

By: beebo

beebo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:23:21 +0000

I’m with you all the way. I over use all of these tools. The one point where we diverge is with iGoogle. I find it irrelevant when using tabbed browsing. My start pages in Firefox consist of GoogleCalendar, GMail, Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us & GoogleReader. I’ve got the tools open to get what I need done. iGoogle, netvibes, etc just get in my way and slow me done.

But we’re all individuals and we all work differently.

BTW, when is the new del.icio.us update coming out? It’s starting to become like G-N-R’s Chinese Democracy …

By: Jason Falls

Jason Falls — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:30:02 +0000

It’s like we share the same brain sometimes. Weird.