After a few monthes with Netvibes' Ginger , I have now a good community of good Netvibes' Friends.
They are not my "real friends" that I meet in "real life". But they are good friends there on Netvibes. They have good suggestions, good readings. They open my vision with their own. They read things I was not aware and that I start to appreciate.
With time I had to drop some of the first friends I had add : their interests were too far from mine. But now my 160 friends are a good mix.
The most active of my Friends are just 20 or so but the "My Community" widget is now too small for me. I am not able to check all their interesting messages and favorites directly in the widget. And I can not be on Netvibes all day ;)
I can, of course go to the my Activity, in the upper menu but the reading is less pleasant.
Another solution is to go to FriendFeed.
There I can check again for my good Netvibes friends, add them to my profile and then check from there without any limitation. I will also be able to check all their activities not just their Netvibes' post.
I do not know why, but I found that stupid... And you ?
Anyway, here is my FriendFeed profile: http://friendfeed.com/netex
If you are following me on Netvibes and want to follow me there...
12/06/2008
I have so many Good friends on Netvibes... It is stupid to follow them on ... FriendFeed, no ?
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26/05/2008
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...
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13/04/2008
Now FriendFeed accepts Netvibes directly
FriendFeed, I was writing a few weeks ago, is a new service that aggregates in one page your own and your friends' various Social Networks feeds and updates.
At the time only 33 services were available but now you can show your own Netvibes Public activities (and read your friends' ones) with a direct option:
Another news service added is :
On the use of the service, I was to point that FriendFed is just interesting if you want really to check "all the activities" of some of your friends !!
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26/03/2008
FriendFeed aggregates your own and your friends' various Social Networks feeds (also Netvibes) :4*/5
It is a few days that I am using FriendFeed a new service that aggregates in one page your own and your friends' various Social Networks feeds and updates
For example, you can see what songs your friends are listening to on last.fm, what video they enjoyed on YouTube, their last blog or Twitter post or see the new photos they have published to Picasa. And you will show the same!
Currently, FriendFeed supports 33 different services :
You choose the ones you want to share with others, you set the user/pass, and then if your page is public (open to all) or private (you must grant authorization).
Then you check for your Friends. When you click on them you see the services they share and the people they have suscribed to.
With FriendFeed you can also check people that are not already using FriendFeed by creating an "Imaginary Friend". Then, you get your friend's Twitter, Facebook,blog, Netvibes Activity, ... Feeds and by placing the Feed as a ... Blog you will be able to follow them.
But it is not just following that you can do.
With FriendFeed you can also:
Comment by leaving a short note
Like by choosing an emoticon
More
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