Looking at Alltop.com and builded my own Fashion Tab on Netvibes

Hi,

Looking for Content for Netvibes, I saw this new site created by Guy Kawaski (creator of Truemors) Alltop.com:

It is a nice looking Human Aggregation Content display of feeds presented by categories: Celebrities, Egos, Fashion, Sport, Tech ...

It has some interest for a New User of RSS,ATOM, FEDS, CONTENT...

Well, if you want to start somewhere to look for feeds you do not know already is Ok, but I still try to understand the interest for the Website owner... It is so easy to get away with the content ;)

I liked the Fashion theme, in fact I was thinking at what could interest my wife ;), so I just checked the 46 Feeds available and imported the Best in My Netvibes page (in one click with the FireFox plugin).
In just 10' I builded my own FASHION tab in my own Universe.

Then I added: some more feeds, a colour for French (Blue), Italian (Green) , German (Purple) and English (Blue) feeds, some search, videos and a shopping widget and here You can check here my new FASHION by NetEx Tab: http://www.netvibes.com/netviberexperience#FASHION_by_NetEx

The only advantage for Netvibes to present such kind of Content Pages would be to prevent its own users to get out of Netvibes searching for Content.

So, If you are looking for Good Fashion Feeds and RSS check this FASHION by NetEx Tab

New Ginger Upgrade offers Show Post Date option for reading feeds

Hi,

I am testing the new Ginger Upgrade and while I am still trying to understand the possible uses for My Universe, I have noticed a new option concerning the Feeds reading: the SHOW POST DATE.


A new, awaited option. Thanks Netvibes Galactic Team !

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.

Krim (Netvibes CEO): Widgets will generate revenues

Hi,

here my transcript of an interesting video in French of the closing keynote speech on the subject of Advertising and Web 2.0 by Tariq Krim, founder and CEO of Netvibes.



The event was the AD:TECH PARIS 6th - 7th March 2007, Palais des Congrès, Paris and Netvibes did not yet published the Coriander Version with more custimization possibilities and the Universes were not available.



The Video is interesting in that you can feel the hesitation and the doubts of Tariq Krim about the revenue side of Netvibes compared with the easy speech he can show when he speaks about services and usability of Netvibes. He says many times that Netvibes is what he needs himself.

You really can feel that the business model is very very vague and that must have been the cause of the departure of WEB 1.0 entrepreneur Pierre Chappaz from Netvibes.



CLOSING KEYNOTE: Advertsing in 2.0 era



[the following are theText of the slides presented by Tariq Krim]



Time is a strategic choice

Attention is a personal choice

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Our digital life is growing... out of control

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Netvibes is about where you focus

your interests

your attention

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Netvibes is about you -

No advertising.

No logos.

No corporate control on the page - 100% user control and creation -

Community (Netvibes Ecosystem) provide the content

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NETVIBES TODAY (march 2007)

15 month old - translated into 80+ languages, done entirely by users

More than 12.000 Feeds, Modules, Podcasts, Calendars and Shared tabs made by users

More than 1 million unique RSS feeds managed by Netvibes

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And your Brand ?

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In all this, RSS is a smart distribution channel but it is still ... boring!

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Netvibes makes RSS sexier for: photos, videos, music, flash

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Working on an unfinished business

(web 1.0) -free the data

(Web 2.0) -free the Application

(Netvibes ) -free the User

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How it will happen: -

the end of the web page -

the end of the browser (as we know it) -

the deportalisation: break the web in small independent pieces of living information: WIDGETS

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Introducing Universal Widget API: build your netvibes widget and make (it) available on every widget platform, blog,... Write once, run everywhere! Netvibes, Dashboard, Google,...

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Universal Widget API (UWA) - Opensource Javascript runtime - Netvibes UI library for your own widgets - building with our community a wall of APIs

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Coming today on our developers network

http://developers.netvibes.com/



[After the slides, there was some kind of questions and answers. Here is my summary]



Q: How brands (not from the Web world) can integrate the Web ?

A: with the widget. Brands will create and offer their own widget. ex: CocaCola could offer a Music Channel widget ...



The concept is to give to every individual users an individual information but you need to be trusted (best is the friends community)



Widget is stronger than Ad because you choose it, you installed it, you like it and you trusted who sent it you!



Q: What are the New trends in Advertising with WEB 2.0 ?

A : The future will see less interest in just the Audience rate but more interest in the Attention rate of the user! Because of the stronger relation with the users that chooses his own piece of information where and when he wants it.



Q ( from CEO yahoo france): what is Netvibes' business model ?

A: the Widgets will generate revenues: by affiliation.

Let's say Ebay does not need new users (because it has already a very big audience) but Ebay needs to create a stronger relation with each user (that will translate in longer time with the service and then bigger revenues) . Ebay is less interested in Audience rate than in the Attention rate of its users.



Q: What are your revenues now (March 2007)

A: At the moment Netvibes has not significative revenues as we concentrate on increasing our user base (almost 10 millions) . You can not create revenues and, at the same time, increase your audience. We choose audience. We want a better product (ex coriander) , a new mobile version, better usability , new services, a Chinese version;



With an Higher Quality World Audience, we could think of pre-roll widgets, as with the ads before the videos. Widgets could be sponsorised. RSS has potential



Q: DO you have technological patents ?

A: Netvibes has just started first and is a good service.

Netvibes creates an ATTENTION NETWORK: created by the user.



Q: who is afraid of Netvibes?

A: Nobody. There is space for everybody...



Q: Who will buy you?

A: ... (with a large smile) . Many WEB 2.0 actors just thought about being bought by the Big Fishes and forgot to ask for enough starting money... We obtained ... 12 millions Euros...

NETVIBES numbers (Updated 7/3/2007)

Hi,

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%