Tariq KRIM interviewed after CHAPPAZ quits Netvibes

Hi,

Tariq KRIM (CEO and founder of Netvibes) has given his first interview at neteco.com a French website about the net economy. and he speaks about the situation after former Co-CEO Pierre Chappaz has left the company with some other top managers.

First, Tariq presents the Top Managers of Netvibes:
Franck Mahon , Lead product manager
Francois Hodierne, Chief Architect
Freddy Mini, COO
Annabelle Malherbe, CFO

On the points of disagreement with Pierre Chappaz , Tariq Krim says:
" I did not share with (Pierre) him the urgency to compromise our product strategy by offering services as third partiy suppliers ."

On the Competition from Wikio (founded and managed by Pierre Chappaz) with their new RSS service, Tariq Krim says that Netvibes is already the Third Source for RSS reading (according to Feedburner : well here we see Fourth...)

On Revenues, Tariq Krim is explicit when he says that RSS will only give marginal revenues and that he believes more on Widgets monetisation. "We work at the moment with numerous partners on monetization and branding of the Widgets".

Tariq Krim clarifies also that there was no disagreement with Chappaz on the Exit strategy or Selling Out.

NETVIBES numbers (Updated 7/3/2007)

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UPDATED: 07 MARCH 2007 (FEBRUARY 2007 - JANUARY 2007 - DECEMBER 2006)

I updated and completed the numbers about Netvibes (data in brackets= last known period). For sources check links.

SIGNED-UP users claimed by Netvibes : 10 million (7.000.00) +43% (+40%)
estimated "real users" by webmonkian (see also in comments) : 1-2 million
ALL DAY USERS declared by Netvibes : 10% = 1.000.000
percentage of users that spend at least 1 hour per day on Netvibes: 33%
percentage of users that have Netvibes open “virtually the entire day” : 10%
number of employees : 11-50
venture capital investment: Accel Partners and Index Ventures for 12 mln US$ (August 2006)

total number of Modules (API) available: 675 (650) +4% (15%)
most downloaded module : Netvibes Customize by FaziBear : 26.754 (24.191)
total number of Feeds available: 11.503 (9.618) +20% (+20%)
most downloaded feed: Dream Girls by Kenny : 7.721 (6. 734)
total number of Podcast available: 836 (743) +13% (13%)
most downloaded podcast: this WEEK in TECH by Netvibes user : 1.466 (1.307)
total number of Events available : 179 (161) +11 (+15%)
most downloaded event: Musicians Birthdays by ZsoltP : 2.126 51.966)
total number of Tabs available: 3.508 (2.987) +17% (+24%)
most downloaded tab: Web 2.0 by Netvibes user : 5.323 (4.925)

number of Bookmarks for "Netvibes" on deli.ci.us : 19.296 (17.796) +8% (8%)
number of Blog search results for "Netvibes" on TECHNORATI : 39.848
number of News search results last 30 days for "Netvibes" on DIGG: 36
number of Web results for "Netvibes" on Google: 22.400.000 (24.400.000) -8%+17%
number of Image results for "Netvibes" on Google: 6.250 (4.760) +31% (+0% )
position of Netvibes for sources of TechCrunch traffic in December 2006: 6 with 32,444 referrals
traffic rank for Netvibes in Alexa.com : 734
country of origin according to Alexa.com: USA: 24.4% , F: 15.3%, D: 9.0%, UK: 6.7%, S: 6.5%
percent of Internet users who visited Netvibes last 3 monthes (Alexa.com) : 0.2095%
percentage of Netvibes for of all web aggregator clicks to FeedBurner publisher's content: 9%
percentage of Netvibes for all item views recorded by FeedBurner: 3%