Netvibes never closes, but this NetEx Blog does...

... so I will take 2 weeks off. No, do not cry ! I will be back :-)

And do you want to know what are the books I'll take with me ? Well, just check the cover here. It was spotted my 5 years old daughter among millions of books.

And It is just what I was looking for: another vision on our everchanging life

Microtrends: Surprising Tales of the Way We Live Today
by Mark J. Penn, E. Kinney Zalesne

It has good reviews and looks as good bet for a summer reading with kids around. I'll let you know...

And I will bring also The Best Seller "Millenium" novel series by STIEG LARSSON.

All I read about it is this : "An epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents, the novel takes in complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family."

Please to not tell me how it ends :) but feel free to leave me your own reading suggestions !

NetEx blog goes also mobile: http://netviberexperience.mofuse.mobi/

I just launched the mobile version of Netviber Experience blog (NetEx) check it out here:

http://netviberexperience.mofuse.mobi/

You will be able to check ideas, tips and data mining on Netvibes from your mobile phone (wap) or iphone ;)

As you can see it is powered by MOFUSE

"MOFUSE gives content publishers, like bloggers, the ability to publish their content to the mobile web. You don't have to be a content publisher to use MoFuse though, anyone can create a mobile website in just a few minutes using the intuitive MoFuse platform."
AND IT SI FREE !

MOFUSE powers already:

new Netvibes' Share option to customize and export UWA Widgets

In a very rich week full of new features (Google search box, Buzz and Public stream) Netvibes will also offering a new Share option to customize the apparence of UWA Widgets.

As the all ecosystem will be rebuilt with new features (n° of installations, platform % and weekly trends) and a better search :), a new option is already offered under the Share menu in the ecosystem bottom menu line.

With this you will be able to export the widget you like (here is mine: the NetEx blog ) with a few customizations and preferences:

• title of widget
• height
• width
• border colour
• ...

Very interesting is also the GRAB THE WIDGET CODE window: with a copy/paste you are now able to export any UWA widget and place it on any WEB page (except the ones like Blogger who prevent javascript) !

The applications are with no limits!! The widget revolution is coming ?

Thanks Netvibes!!

Fashion Content Feeds and Links for your Netvibes page from NetEx

After Netvibes presenting its selection for "feminine" content , here is my own selection of Fashion Content:

You can check it on my other Universe :

http://www.netvibes.com/storage#FASHION_by_NeteX

You will find dozens of Fashion Feeds selected for you, links and searches (video, shopping,...).
There is a colour per language/country.

You want a Widget or a just a few, click on them and they will be added to your own Netvibes page.

Want the all "Fashion by NetEx" Tab ? click here



Thanks to Isa and Gustav for tips.
And no, I did not prepared it today :)
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I added the my own (NetEx) Twitter Updates Widget to my Netvibes Experience Blog

As Twitter is becoming "ZE Instant Messaging" service of the WEB 2.0 I just added here on ther right column a Twitter Updates Widget that will present my last 3 Tweets.

Tweets (Twitter's posts) are shorter (max 140 signs) than blog post but they are much easier to post. Urls are tranformed in short url by the system and you can not publish any image.
You can send Tweets via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific , Facebook or Netvibes.

For me as a blogger is also a way to get in touch with my readers and my preferred sources ;)


1) If you want to follow my Tweets (NetEx) on your Twitter, click here:

http://twitter.com/Netviber

2) If you want to follow my Twitter (NetEx) Updates on your Netvibes page click here:



3) If you want to add your own Twitter feeds in your Netvibes page, click here:




Twitter on Wikipedia

Why Netviber Experience Blog is publishing 15 times more Tips and Posts than Netvibes official Blog ?

While I was posting my previous post I noticed that since January the First, the Netvibes official Blog has just posted 9 times while this blog, Netviber Experience Blog (NetEx) , has posted 137 tips and other posts only on and about Netvibes !

Why ? I do not know, but that is the main reason, for me, to continue to publish this blog with:

• tips
• widgets reviews
• widgets requests
• Universes reviews
• new services requests
  
• news about Netvibes and its team
• ideas

NetEx Tip: Drag your friends icon on your Netvibes page

NetEx Tip:

Did you know that by dragging the icon of any of your Friends (from Contacts) on to your page, you are installing your Friends' My Community public widget ?

This Public version of the widget shows: the friends and followers of your Friend and his public activities.

Many users, create a Friends Tab on their Netvibes universe to check all their best friends activity one by one.

PS: I just discovered it ...

I have found the first FEEDS READER with IMAGES

I have finally found the first FEEDS READER Widget that shows images !! I was looking for it since my first Netvibes page and now I have it working . Too cool !

Look at the image down there, I have chosen the Fubiz blog to show you th improvements.


On the left the "normal" feed reader from Netvibes with the "show details" option, then in the center the Premium Widget also from Netvibes. This tile it show images but just 3 at the times.
Then on the right the new Feed Reader Widget: as many images as you want (only jpg).

Imagine all your preferred Video, Sport, Fashion, Design, Art, Photography, Visual, Graphic ... blogs showing up in your Netvibes page with their images... Even Netviber Experience blog will has been enhanced ;)

But that is not all ! With this single Widget you can also :

1) merge different feeds, audio podcasts and video podcasts together
2) filter the displayed items.
3) show feeds on 1-2-3-4-5 columns ...
4) video player and an audio player are integrated in the widget.
5) read the articles directly in the widget too.

Available in English and French

A wonderful widget.

More to come!

New STAR IT! widget: share and favorite any URL : 5*/5

STAR IT ! this fresh and hot new widget from Maurice Svay of the Netvibes team is one that all Ginger users were waiting for.

With this easy widget, just copy the URL of any post, image, video, webpage, ... you want to star (make favorite) , click STAR and you have your favorite.
You can now choose to send it to your Private or your Public activities. You can add also a comment.

Just perfect ! It works on your Private page and on your public Universe.

To be improved: nothing on the widget, but we will need some kind of Star Box with appropriate tools to use and recover past starred items.

UPDATE: If a FireFox Star it! plug-in was to become available that would make a huge increase for Netvibes appeal ;)


NetEx Rating: 5*****/5

I have add it in my list of REALLY Essential Widgets on my Universe were you can get it directly to your own Netvibes page or you can get it here

new ALL FEEDS Widget : Netvibes Feeds Reader à la "Google Reader": 4*/5

ALL FEED is a clever Widget that will allow you to read all your Feeds in a single module.

Created by Twisterss ( Tristan Groléat), a joung and brillant widget producer (Automatic Parser 5* and Web Page Plus 5*) with ALL FEEDS you will be able also to read only the feeds of any of your individual Tab.

It is the Netvibes version of the Google Reader.

You can select:
- title
- Number of columns to display the content: 1-5
- choose the feeds from any of your Tabs or ALL of them
- to show the unread count
- Number of items to display : up to 50
and the usual opens on the site, more details and post date

The Feeds that are in your Tab or in all your page are automatically sudcribed by the ALL FEEDS widget but if you want to unsuscribe any of them, you have to find on by one the Tab where you charged them and manually delete them.

To install this Widget that has to be inlined in the Netvibes system you need to precisly follow the instructions:
1) Go to Add Content / Essential Widgets and find UWA MODULE
2) click edit copy and paste this addres: http://twisterss.free.fr/api_netvibes/allFeeds/allFeeds.htm
3) check the option "inline this widget"
4) close edit
5) Add the Widget to your page.

HOW it could be Improved ?

As ALL FEEDS reads only the feeds that you have already on your Netvibes page/tab it is a double service for the numereous persons that like the Google way to the feeds (I am not ;) ).

Probably with a widget like this you would need a much higher limit of posts than the current 50... because if you follow let's say 10 blogs or news you could only show 5 for each.


NetEx RATING: 4****/5

A Useful Widget if you like the Google Reader approach with a plus as you can have more columns to read your favorite blogs.

But, if you could add Feeds directly in the Widget and if you could operate there some filtering, then I would be obliged to give it a 5*****.

I have add it in my list of REALLY Essential Widgets on my Universe.
But only works in your private Page.

My Community: Another Really Essential Widget for Netvibes

Now that all Netvibes users are upgrading to the Ginger release, let's examine the MY COMMUNITY widget created by the Netvibes team.

The idea is to get connected to your Friends by showing in real time your Friends activities, your own public activities and having a view over who are your friends and who is following you.

The real plus offered by Netvibes is that you can star (Share as favorite) and comment also the activities of your friends !! (and not only your news feeds). That way all your friends and followers will see it and, if they want, they can also share it with others ...

You can also copy/paste in the writing box and that is cool if you need a "specific" text and you can also write url that will open in a new page. That is useful if you want to give a link to another page. Images and other contnent can only be sent by their url.

As you can see from the capture you have limited editing possibilities.

What could be improved is to give the user the possibility :

1. to star also the Friends' Update : if George wrotes: "I am a new Dad" well it could be useful to be able to share it as favorite to "send it" to other friends that perhaps are not connected with George
2. to send a message to your own private activity: If I want to write : "Send a bottle to George but not the same as the one for peter" I do not want to show that to all ;)
3. to reply to someone with @name and not show that in the profile (is not a statement)
4. to have an option for a larger window to write text
5. to have an empty option to have an empty window
6. to mix my own public activities with my friends' one: it is easier to follow discussions
7. to add an image in the field (like in Twitxr.com), not just an image url as now.
8. to be able to import here other Social Messaging activities like Twitter. A special little icon would signify that a friend messaging me is not from Netvibes, but with an option I could answer him from Netvibes. That way I will have just one Social messaging tool.
9. to modify the icon of the message sender to know if it is a Friend or a Follower (perhaps with a different border or size) : if you have many friends and followers, very often they are not the same, you could reply to persons that do not see your messages :(
   
10. to change name of the widget.

MORE GENERAL REQUEST concerning Activities:

1. I would like to come back to a way to have 2 separate activities fields: private and public. In Beta there was an option to move an activity from private to public and viceversa and I liked it. It was opening new ways to use Netvibes and the Web ;)
2. Would be nice to be able to message directly to Friend or follower, not in public
   

NetEx rating : 4****/5

An essential widget that works immediatly and that allows you to really benefit from the social side of Netvibes.

I have add it in my list of REALLY Essential Widgets on my Universe, but the full version is only available in the personal page.

This widgets comes now as default in Ginger (the new version of Netvibes) but if you need another copy, you can get it from: Add Content/Assential Widgets/My Community

My Newly Updated List of the Best Universes by NetEx

Hi,

here is the newlyU UPDATED LIST of BEST UNIVERSES by NetEx with links: (order is just practical... ;) )

1. Best Layout 3***: KARINE: fresh, colourful, miam miam. Should be asked to create more Netvibes Themes ;)
   
2. National Content: GERMANY by Novesia: stylish with humour. Very good Tab title and content . I want more like this ;)
   
3. National Content: The Netherlands : a stilish and complete Universe by Rotvibes
4. Nice Layout 2**: CROUSTIGLAM: nice, fresh, would like to have an empty Tab just to look at the wallpaper ;)
5. Content Web Design, Fints, CSS, layouts ... by Me So Horny: hundreds of feeds...
   
6. Content Web2.0, Mktg, Management,... : complete
7. Content Local Community Universe: a premium Universe for a small community. We need them !
8. Content: FIDIS Consortium (Future of Identity in the Information Society) with LSE, INSEAD, IBM...
9. Content: French Juridiacal Database Universe: if you need it...
   

OLDER

1. Content Guitar Tabs + Aurora Borealis predictions: a strange mix
2. Good French only Feeds by Founder of Wikio : all feeds with picture: I like
3. Nice Brazilian Food TAB: miam miam
   
4. Large CHoice of Feeds: a lot in many different fields
5. NetEX07 Award for Best Serious Layout: will have to improve to maintain title ...
6. NetEx07 Award for Best Unserious Layout: very good, could perhaps add some cartoons
7. NetEx07 Award for Best Headline Picture: New York, New York...
8. Nice Layout: I like dark background ;)
9. Swedish Content: but an image with snow
10. NetExp07 Award for Best Arty Page ***: I just liked it
11. Miss Netvibes: Verenice (and she can sing too) !
12. Content: Medical Library Toolbox: a very good job and professional !!
13. Best Commercial site: Jajah
14. Content: News and Blogs on the European Union: if you are interested
15. Content US PRESIDENTIAL Elections ***: Best content so far by a pro
16. Content: Web Entrepreneur: we all know one ;)
17. Content: All on Netvibes: Yes, my universe, but at the moment is the best ;)
18. Content: Official Netvibes Universe: check and compare with mine ;)
19. Content: First Sex Universe: check it if you have your parents permission ;)

After the success of the last BEST UNIVERSES 2007 Awards I decided to share with everyone my preferred Public NetvibesUniverses so here my New tab: "Best Universes by NetEx".

It is just a personnal choice to show other users work, taste, efforts and findings.

I am still looking for good and rich content (not just copy/paste or just feeds) coupled with nice, original design. Everybody is still "under construction" and I am sure we will have interesting discoveries.

I have a Message Board for you to drop me an Universe URL (yours or one you liked) or your comments and I will check it... But wait untill you have something solid to show.

Thanks Netvibes !

Enjoy!

Google robot already found 745 Netvibes Universes & Modules

Hi,

if you make a search with Google with the string: "site:www.netvibes" you will find today 745 Universes and Modules

My Universe, http://www.netvibes.com/netviberexperience is there. And yours ?

If you do not want to check all the results just add also your Universe' name in the search box ;).

I have a lot to choose from for my Best Universes by NetEx.

Total number of Modules (Multi-Feeds Content Widgets from Media sources) is 203.

Update with links of my selection of Netvibes Public Universes

Hi,

here is UPDATED LIST of BEST UNIVERSES by NetEx with links: (order is just practical... ;) )

1. Content Guitar Tabs + Aurora Borealis predictions: a strange mix
2. Good French only Feeds by Founder of Wikio : all feeds with picture: I like
3. Nice Brazilian Food TAB: miam
4. Large CHoice of Feeds: a lot in many different fields
5. NetEX07 Award for Best Serious Layout: will have to improve to maintain title ...
6. NetEx07 Award for Best Unserious Layout: very good, could perhaps add some cartoons
7. NetEx07 Award for Best Headline Picture: New York, New York...
8. Nice Layout: I like dark background ;)
9. Swedish Content: but an image with snow
10. NetExp07 Award for Best Arty Page ***: I just liked it
11. Miss Netvibes: and she can sing too !
12. Content: Medical Library Toolbox: a very good job and professional !!
13. Best Commercial site: Jajah
14. Content: News and Blogs on the European Union: if you are interested
15. Content US PRESIDENTIAL Elections ***: Best content so far by a pro
16. Content: Web Entrepreneur: we all know one ;)
17. Content: All on Netvibes: Yes, my universe, but at the moment is the best ;)
18. Content: Official Netvibes Universe: check and compare with mine ;)
19. Content: Biggest Offer: 42 Tabs , OMG !
20. Content: First Sex Universe: check it if you have your parents permission ;)

After the success of the last BEST UNIVERSES 2007 Awards I decided to share with everyone my preferred Public NetvibesUniverses so here my New tab: "Best Universes by NetEx".

It is just a personnal choice to show other users work, taste, efforts and findings.

I am still looking for good and rich content (not just copy/paste or just feeds) coupled with nice, original design. Everybody is still "under construction" and I am sure we will have interesting discoveries.

I have a Message Board for you to drop me an Universe URL (yours or one you liked) or your comments and I will check it... But wait untill you have something solid to show.

Thanks Netvibes !

Enjoy!

New layout for NetEx: Pimp my Blog

Hi,

no big news. But the new Ginger release and their Pimp Your Universe attitude has obliged me to revamp my layout.

If you have any suggestion...