Netvibes Partners With China's Premier Network of Web Properties, Sohu, and Web Browser, Maxthon

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Here is the news: Netvibes Partners With China's Premier Network of Web Properties, Sohu, and Web Browser, Maxthon, to Promote the Global Exchange of Universal Widgets.

Sohu is the foremost network of leading web properties and portals in China and represents one of the biggest developer communities in the world. Sohu announced its new Open Widget Platform on January 1, 2008, and held the first Sohu Open Widget Developer Forum two days later. Sohu Open Widget Platform supports Netvibes UWA to empower its developer community to rapidly develop and distribute universal widgets across the web. All Netvibes Universal Widgets now are compatible with the Sohu Open Platform and all Sohu universal widgets will be distributed across the Netvibes Ecosystem.

Netvibes' Blog confirms Ginger release previews

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Also the Netvibes Blog has confirmed that the Ginger release will bring a social twist to the best Independent Homepage .

On the Developers side Netvibes "have decided that the moment the technology matures, to include all the existing Social APIs as plugins for UWA, Netvibes' Universal Widget API. "

The graph below summerizes that.