Want to have the on-line results of all matches played today in Paris ? Want to read some comments ?
UPDATE: want also to check the schedule ? Want to see the the image Gallery ?
Use this Rolland Garros 2008 widget from Netvibes called Tennis Live. You can choose the Men or Women competition results board and the news channel with comments (has been added during my writing of this post :) ).
NetEx rating: UPATED 4*/5 (was 3*/5)
Simple and essential: scores, comments, schedule and gallery.
Thanks to the developers: Florent Solt and Charles Viard.
What is missing ? The weather conditions and if matches are interrupted or not (that will earn them a 5*/5 :) )
To add it to your Netvibes page, just click here:
If you want some comments and pics, but no on-line scores try this widget The French Open news widget :
You can add this widget to you Netvibes page by clicking here:
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26/05/08
Follow the Rolland Garros French Tennis open with this Netvibes Widget: NetEx rating: updated 4*/5
Why Netvibes Unique Users are decreasing since the Ginger release ?
Why the Netvibes' number of Unique Visitors, as measured by Compete.com, has decreased since January 2008 ? Netvibes remains by far the best of the independent homepages with more than 4 times users than its competitors pageflakes.com and protopage.com . But the new Ginger release update has not produced any increase in users numbers.
That is strange as Ginger, the "social twist" version of Netvibes, opened to all Netvibes users beginning of March, and I would have expected that this could increase the users' base not the contrary : a huge loss of 22% in just a month !
For sure the problems related to the implementation of the new Ginger have caused some flection in the numbers but ... let's check figures with an other "troubled" service as Twitter and a new star as Friendfeed.
Twitter is not stopping its tendency to increase users' base (+30%) and remember that only Twitter web users are counted here (no mobiles or other web applications). Just FriendFeed had also a little drop for April figures.
Of course, Compete.com stats are based on US users, so Netvibes that has an international base is not fully represented by those figures. For that reason, I checked also the numbers for Wikio.com (the US version of Wikio, the European based blogs and news feed aggregator).
And you can see, that Wikio is still far from Netvibes numbers but its trend is always positive.
But, although unique visitors and page views are critical pieces of the puzzle - these metrics often fail to accurately measure engagement on sites using technologies such as AJAX (as Netvibes) and online video.
(comments from Compete.com :
Attention is a powerful way to plan and measure the web because it is a finite resource that we manage selfishly. We grant our attention to people, activities and websites that merit receiving our most precious resource - time. If a site can garner more of an individual's time it should generally be considered a good thing. With that said, there are exceptions (Search Engines for example), which is why we don't present Attention as the king of all metrics. We see Attention as an additional piece of the puzzle.
Attention is graphed using a stacked area chart, which shows how the Attention for each individual site contributes to the total Attention for all sites in the chart. Note that the area for each individual site uses the site below it as a baseline - thus the order of the sites will affect the appearance of the graph. )
So here is the Graph of Attention for Netvibes:
Even on Attention, there is a decrease for Netvibes on the contrary of Twitter.
For sure, Netvibes has not become a viral social application.
If you have ideas or insight on the subject do not hesitate to let me know...
I want sync all my Social Statutes Updates at once from Netvibes, not the other way round
For those who would like to know how I manage to sync my updates for, say, Netvibes and Twitter here is the solution: copy/paste :)
I use with my pseudo NetEx, many web2.0 services as Netvibes, Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and also this blog. Whenever I want to update my status with the same message I have to go in each service and do it by hand. What I would prefer is to use my Netvibes page and by just posting there my message to see all other services updating with me moving around the web .
As I want to use Netvibes also as my Social Home Page and not just for Feed Reading, I expect as many others that Netvibes would come up with such a service.
Instead is going the other way round: I can update my Twitter status , post a short message on this blog and update my Facebook status directly from Facebook with BlogIt , an application from Six Apart.
I could add a other services as:
25/05/08
10 tips from Netvibes to build your own Public Universe page
Samy on the Netvibes Blog has just published 10 tips to customize your netvibes public page:
1) Present yourself
2) Organize the content
3) Use the webnotes
4) Use the image widget
5) Use Photo albums
6) Change the column width
7) Optimize loading time !!! Important !!!
8) Play with the options
9) Personnalise your background images
10) Use the link widgets
If you want more you can check also this:
PS: I love the illustration. Who is the artist ???? Please ? :)
23/05/08
Does Netvibes needs a Community Manager ?
As Netvibes, like other Web 2.0 services as Flickr or Twitter, continues to have problems
(check the GetSatisfaction page on Netvibes and here is the copy/paste from Summize widget on twitter posts about Netvibes):
PhilippeMartin: mardi c'était Twitter, hier Flickr et aujourd'hui c'est Netvibes qui est down - 13 minutes ago
Daniel8802: so for example, if I go to netvibes.com, the page just constantly refreshes and I cannot do anything on there. - about 2 hours ago
Rodzilla: anyone else use netvibes, it continuously refreshes the page, really annoying. - about 2 hours ago
Some specialist are advising all these service to create a COMMUNITY MANAGER:
"While the management has been kind of accessible, they really need someone who’s smack dab in the middle of the folks that use the product on a daily basis.
They need someone who’ll communicate constantly what’s going on and help even more so maintain this relationship.
Twitter (or Netvibes) is obviously a tool that folks depend on so it’s extra important to give special attention to the community and it’s feelings about it.
It’s all too easy for a community to turn on a product and move somewhere else (=>iGoogle+Google Reader)."
Check this MultiTouch interaction on MAC (Thanks Fubiz)
http://www.fubiz.net/blog/index.php?2008/05/23/1619-multitouch-interaction
22/05/08
Fashion Content Feeds and Links for your Netvibes page from NetEx
After Netvibes presenting its selection for "feminine" content , here is my own selection of Fashion Content:
You can check it on my other Universe :
http://www.netvibes.com/storage#FASHION_by_NeteX
You will find dozens of Fashion Feeds selected for you, links and searches (video, shopping,...).
There is a colour per language/country.
You want a Widget or a just a few, click on them and they will be added to your own Netvibes page.
Want the all "Fashion by NetEx" Tab ? click here
Thanks to Isa and Gustav for tips.
And no, I did not prepared it today :)
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