By Richard Koman for SiliconValleyWatcher

Everyone complains that they have too many feeds to deal with. It's too easy to subscribe, too hard to keep up. I was just about at the point where I never checked the rss feeds, just looking at the major websites. Last night, I came across Netvibes, based in Paris and London, which last week picked up an additional $15 million in seed funding, with Index Ventures and Accel leading,

I look at a lot of Web 2.0 thingies and a lot of them leave me cold, but I'm a big fan of Netvibes after half an hour of building my home page with it. It shows you just where Ajax is leading us ... to online apps that are just as responsive and intuitive as desktop apps. Netvibes comes with plenty of good mainstream feeds that are easy to load in - you click and drag to where you want them on your page. Clicking on a headline brings up a fantastic interface element - pop-up box with recent headlines from that feed, detail on the link you clicked on and any associated art.

Adding feeds directly is not so much fun (you have to paste in an XML url or load an OPML). But, it's super W2 friendly, with modules for everything from Gmail to Flickr to delicious to digg. You can track ebay auctions, track product prices with Kelkoo, load in your online calendar events.

But the real distinguisher is the Netvibes ecosystem, built on a simple API so third parties can add modules that work with Netvibes. There are close to 300 modules right now.

Reporting the investment news, TechCrunch notes:

"NetVibes toughest challenges are starting now. They have enough traction in a young market to begin to monetize traffic - they just have to find the right way to do it without alienating users. NetVibes will also have to become mainstream which implies dedicated marketing efforts and relevant distribution deals to reach untapped, non-early-adopter audiences."