New Coriander version of Netvibes is Charging

Hi

the announced Coriander update version of Netvibes is now on (February 28, 2007 à 03:58 PM Paris Time) just 8 days later than announced and after 2 hours of server upgrading.

New features:

1) Columns are finally Resizable: you can now arrange your 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns as you like by dragging and dropping the unobtrusive handles between the columns to make them wider or narrower. Good news! It works fine

2) a New Coriander theme is available: let's wait and see for the "Shiny colors and round corners (that) will give some eye candy to your modules". I prefer the darker background look of the previous Halloween theme and the use of my preferred module: Netvibes Customize .

3) Feeds navigation: It is now possible to read your feeds beyond the display limit. (This feature can be enabled in the "Settings" panel.)
That one is also a good news!

4) new Mac mail module. No use for me but ...

So I am waiting to see my own Coriander version and will give you more comments.

Netvibes announces Cross-Platform Widget Compatibility

Hi,

yesterday in London, Tariq Krim (CEO of Netvibes), as reported by Michael Arrington from TECHCRUCH has announced that the new Coriander version of Netvibes (still to come...) will provide a solution to allow cross-paltform compatibility of widgets.

In this way, developers will have just to develop their widgets (module, flakes,...) as the compatibility on every platform will be guaranteed by an Universal Wideget Api.

The advantages according to 606TECH are:

"- widgets created for Netvibes will work on Vista, Opera, Google and Mac, with Yahoo support soon to follow
- this universal widget is important because a single widget created will be able to be embedded in most platforms
- it also allows for an outward growth of Netvibes widgets so they can become increasingly mobile and personal
- the incorporation of OpenID goes along
- open sourcing with the Coriander release of Netvibes means anyone can increase the number of platforms Netvibes widgets can operate on . "

And the advantages for us Netvibers, will be that widgets (modules) already developed for Netvibes will be available for other platforms (Google, Yahoo, ...) .
Well, it would be better if it was the other way round...

Some Netvibes improvements

Hi,

Tariq Krim has just announced some new improvements to Netvibes waiting for the new Coriander version as I had announced previously.

The improvements according to Krim:

1) Improving the RSS and introducing the Media RSS support with introduction of small images in the feeds.

2) More choice in the search modules with more sites: metacafe.com, sevenload.com (videosearch), pixsy.com (pictures) and blogsearch.google.com (blogs).

3) a new Craigslist module

4)Introduced possibility of making a Backup copy of all your feed subscriptions

Now let's wait for the Coriander version improuvements.

Home pages comparison_Part 1

Hi,

I am trying to start an Home Pages comparison.

In the mean time check this one on WebWorkerDaily. It refers to Ajax Start Pages:

1) Google’s Personalized Home Page

2) Netvibes

3) Pageflakes

4) Protopage

5) Yourminis

For each there are pro e con but the general conclusion is not yet a positive one :

"That "All those home pages" have a ways to go before they provide the informational richness and immediate action that this web worker needs. "

Check your own Netvibes Active User ID number

Hi,

In the comments of my post concerning the 7 million users claimed by Netvibes,
Webmonkian said...
if you clear your cookies and go to netvibes and then look at your cookies you can see how many 'users' netvibes has.

So I did it! (Thanks Webmonkian!)

I looked for my "netvibes" cookie , I read it with Notepad and I saw the
userID that seems to be to Total Registred Users of Netvibes. This number went up and down 7.000.000 (ex: 7.041.021 or 7.927.351) and is in line with the 7 mln users claimed by Chappaz in my other post.

But I saw also the activeuserID, a number that did not change even by changing PC and erasing the cookies. It is my own user ID and this Active user ID is in the 3.700.000 range probably related with my registration in mid November 2006.


Questions:
1) why the userID changes so much (900.000 in a few hours) ?
2) are the activeUserID related to date of registration or to another event?

Wait and see...

Who is behind Netvibes_part 4

Hi,

we continue the original post " Who is behind Netvibes".

6) Marc THOUVENIN, Business Development Executive at Netvibes, French, 31.

In charge of Business Development since August 2006, Marc Thouvenin is now hiring Partner Program Specialists.

7) Chris DAMSEN, VP U.S. Business Development, American

During his six-year tenure as Senior Director of Business Development at Ask.com/IAC, Chris led its syndication division to more than $200M in annual revenue. He also established key relationships with more than 100 partners including AOL, Google, Lycos, BellSouth, CNET, Apple, EarthLink, and InfoSpace.


to be continued (Part5)

Netvibes2Go: New Mobile version for Netvibes

Hi,

Netvibes is testing a new Mobile version called: Netvibes2Go

Just go to : http://m.netvibes.com
and Create a tab named "mobile" and add modules among compatible ones:
iCal
Todo List
Web Note
GMail
Yahoo! Mail
Hotmail
AOL Mail
PopMail
Feeds
Weather
Web search
Blog search

Some French users have already tested it: see captures.