The NETVIBER EXPERIENCE's Best Public Netvibes Universes Awards 2007

Hi,

While I'm still waiting for my Ginger Upgrade, I visited the Public Universe of Tariq KRIM, CEO of Netvibes.

This time his Univers was listing its 67 Friends.

So I checked all of them to see what it was all about. As the content published was not at all impressive (a lot of widgets with facebook, twitter, gmail, basic feeds,...) I decided to spot for you what I think is the best of the Public Universes on Netvibes at the end of 2007.

So here are my NETVIBER EXPERIENCE' s Best Public Netvibes Universes AWARDS for 2007:

• BEST SERIOUS LAYOUT : Gauthier's Universe for general layout, avatar, ...


• BEST UNSERIOUS LAYOUT: François' Universe as above + self derision


• BEST PAGE ON NETVIBES: Charles' Universe because is quite complete and ... because there are the Feeds from Netviber Experience.


• BIGGEST TAB OFFER : NVQA Universe: 43 Public tabs !!


• BEST WISHES 2008 TAB: again François' Universe, just look at it.


• BEST HEADLINE PICTURE: Ben' Universe with a NY skyline

and finally my preferred page

• BEST ARTY PAGE/TAB is an all graphic Universe tab/page by LOLITA (sic)

For all of those who were not checked or that have made or seen better tabs and Universes feel free to show them to me. We will have another round of Awards in 2008.

I voted 5 times in the TIME 50 Best Websites 2007 POLL

Hi,

I just discovered that by just hitting my back button I can vote as many times as I want in the TIME 50 Best Websites 2007 POLL!! (Look at the just published discussion on TIME naming Netvibes in the 50 Best Websites 2007 )

I can see that it works because the POLL results are increasing...

Try yourself... and do not trust online POLLS !!

HOW TO DO IT:

1) go to the Netvibes poll page
2) vote
3) go to the POLL RESULTS page
4) read total votes for Netvibes (I only vote for them ;) ) :716 votes
5) hit the back button of your browser (I am with IE6 and WXP)
6) vote again ... and that's it!!

I hope nobody is voting against ... but only for their favorites.

Time names Netvibes in the 50 Best Websites 2007

Hi,

as reported by Netvibes, Time has named Netvibes one of 50 Best Websites 2007 as a winner in the Web Service category.

Time decided "to honor sites with exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience".

Time gives a complete description of theservices provided Netvibes.com : Create a Custom Homepage and invites readers to vote so go here and vote (if you like).

I voted myself and my note was in the 90, higher than the 65 I credited Netvibes in a previous discussion because I wanted to point out the overall quality of the service that Netvibes provides compared also to other web service categories.

At the moment Netvibes ranks 7° with more than 700 votes with an average of 75 .

The only Netvibes competitor mentioned by TIME is: Honorable mention: Pageflakes.

NETVIBES Competitors: Unique Users Data

Hi,
I resume here, from TECHCRUNCH, the Numbers of the Uniques Users(*) of PERSONAL HOME PAGES as tracked by COMSCORE in their January 2007 worldwide report.

My Yahoo : 50.2 millions Unique Users (Among Visitors Age 15+)
My MSN : 11.9
Google IG : 7.1
My AOL : 2.1
My Netscape : 0.7

There is only one big winner : My Yahoo !

The 50 millions Users of My Yahoo compared with the estimated worldwide audience of 747 millions credits this service of an impressive penetrationn rate of ...7% when the aggregate 72 millions of the Big 5 personal Home pages gives them a 10% rate.

The other Big Netvibes' Competitors are really far away... Even Google!

And Netvibes ? Too small audience to be selected by COMSCORE...

(*) For more details on ComScore methodology.