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New Netvibes Will Be World's Biggest Real-Time Feed Reader

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Nov 02, 2009

Summary

The next version of popular web dashboard service Netvibes will push "near real-time" updates from feeds to the browser, a dramatic change in how the service works. Those feeds will be served up along with the standard suite of functional widgets the company has always provided.

As the number of real-time feeds available around the web has rapidly grown over recent months with the rise of real-time publishing technologies, the big question been: when will a major feed reader consume these feeds? Google Reader is probably too complex and too slow-moving; that Netvibes is going to steal the show should be no surprise.

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In an unembargoed presentation sent to press this morning, Netvibes said that it would be adding support to its next version for both Pubsubhubbub and RSS Cloud protocols. When those technologies are used to tell Netvibes that new items are available, the items will be pushed automatically to the browsers of subscribers - with no browser refresh required.