MiniBoxs is an interesting concept in the world of RSS aggregators. Firstly, it’s not at all customizable and that’s pretty different in the Web 2.0 world. Generally, RSS aggregators are totally customizable… meaning you can add your own feeds and shuffle them around the page. Not with MiniBoxs.

But that’s not the market they appear to be going for. “MiniBoxs is a vivid RSS aggregator that offers a new approach to surfing the Internet and presents its users with a simple way to get updated with news and content from around the globe in a wide variety of topics. MiniBoxs is an easy way to familiarize yourself with a handful websites, from the most popular portals and blogs to various Internet magazines, social networks, web2.0 sites, leading video and image sharing communities and other top rated gems that are often missed by the general surfers’ community” says the MiniFAQ. “Unlike Netvibes, Pageflakes, Webwag and even unlike popurls and OriginalSignal - MiniBoxs can’t be customized or personalized and his structure is organized by dividing the hottest categories on the net in order to enrich the mainstream audience.”

I like the concept. I’m always surfing for news and I think that it is great to see so many sources on one site. I like that I don’t have to bother with building my own library of feeds. I use Google Reader for a select few sites that I track, but when I’m just surfing for random news I like a site like this. Google News just doesn’t give me enough links on the front page.

MiniBoxs has a ton of stories on the front page and it’s a nice site to kill some time with.