I just found the official Wimbledon 2008 Widget for the Tennis Championships:
It is distributed by Clearspring.com and sponsored by IMB. And it gives scores, news and palyer info.
But this Widget does not work properly with Netvibes and my FF3 even with the dedicated Netvibes download option.
Sizes are not working properly (as they look inverted) and there is no way to move in the widget area as no scroll is available :(
Are they using UWA ? Not sure...
NetEx Rating: 1*/5
The worst possible result for a Widget : Just a big Ad and no way to use the widget :(
If somebody want to test the widget and try to fix it, click here :
24/06/2008
I have the official Wimbledon 2008 Widget :( just 1*/5

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JAC
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Libellés : 1*, Clearspring, Netvibes, rating widget, Wimbledon
14/03/2008
What kind of animal is Netvibes today ? A PLATYPUS !
A PLATYPUS ??!!
YES, A PLATYPUS !
Platypus ( (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a small , nice, unique semi-aquatic , duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying, venomous mammal with dense brown fur living in Australia .
If you look back , NETVIBES was an Homepage or a Start Page : It was the your new Private page: a new entry point for the Web to read your preferred feeds, check the weather, your emails .... The competition is from: iGoolge, MyYahoo!, Live.com, Pageflakes,...
Slowly, the new socials networks appeared and with the Ginger release, a new Netvibes was presented. Now, you can have now your own Public Page on Netvibes: Netvibes has become a Social Service on its own but in competition with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Bebo ...
Now, as evolution continues also in the web, Widgets (those small programmes that you can add to your page) are becoming the big thing... They can travel, they can be today in Netvibes but tomorrow (even today if you want) you will bring them in your own Blog or in your web site.
At this point Netvibes have to evolve again...
So Netvibes wants to become also a Widget Market place in competition with: Widgetbox, Slide, Rockyou, Goowy, Clearspring, Gigya, ...
Other evolutions are awaited: Online Web Storage could be the next one...
So, Netvibes = Platypus , not a strange definition for me ...