New corporate web site for Netvibes

As announced yesterday by Tariq Krim, Netvibes' CEO, a new corporate website has been launched and thanks to an "anonymous" comment on my post we have the url:

http://about.netvibes.com/

In the Management section, you will find pics and bio of 7 of the top managers of Netvibes

Something that I did not know about Tariq Krim is his early "social sistem" involvment :
" He started his first online messaging system in France while attending elementary school and has been involved in the rise of the Internet in France."

In the Investors tab, you will find news on European VCs Accel Partners and Index Ventures.

And you have also an Awards tab.


A nice corporate site with links to blogs, ginger, developers, tools, content, ....

Also here: Better late than never !

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 Ginger Private Beta upgrade arrrives as Netvibes wins Crunchie 2007 for Best International Startup!

Hi,

so I was right yesterday guessing that the imminent Ginger Private BetaUpdate was to follow the 2007 Crunchie Awards where Netvibes has won the "Best international start-up" .

Will the new Ginger Update follow the 2007 Crunchies Awards?

Hi,

Tariq Krim, Netvibes' CEO, has relaunched his own Public Universe.

It was just about time as it was awarded the "Poorest Uuniverse Award for 2007"...

The Universe is not, per se, very interesting as nothing is really new. I would like to see a Public version of the TRAVEL TAB of Tariq as is traveling all year around and for sure he must have a good one, no ?

Anyway, all that is just to pass time waiting for the new Ginger Update.

It was promised by Tariq for "Next Thursday" and so we wait for another "next thursday"...

But perhaps, Tariq is waiting for the Ginger Update for the results of the "more prestigious" 2007 CRUNCHIES AWARDS to be awarded this evening in San Francisco at 7.30PM local time?

I would bet on Netvibes, at least on "the Best international start-up" category.

And you, have you thought at what kind of Public Universe you are going to release, when and if Ginger comes for you ?

Let me know as I have prepared new categories for the BEST PUBLIC AWARDS 2008 !

Poorest Netvibes Universe Award 2007: the Day After

Hi,

Yesterday I published my Poorest Netvibes Universe Award 2007 where the winner was ... TARIQ's UNIVERSE, the Universe created by Netvibes CEO.

And, all the Net (we all can dream) was buzzing about that!

So, a strong reaction was waited !

If it was the Mark Zuckerberg CEO's FACEBOOK that had won a similar award, I could have received something like this:

"Peter 'Coz' Bourde 11:29pm January 6th
I'm an engineer at facebook and I'm writing to ask if you would be willing to take down the link to your Awards. Based on your comment on TechCrunch I suspect you anticipated this would be coming at some point. Even if your intended use of such an Award is noble (as I'm sure it is), the simple script you have posted on your site is (and has always been) against our terms of service. Said more shortly, we just can't let people Award aginst our site outside of the platform; it's a slippery slope.
We'd obviously like to resolve this without disabling your account or getting the lawyers involved if possible, so please let me know as soon as you've taken the Award down so that our legal department doesn't get all fired up about this.
thanks,Peter Bourde Facebook Engineer "
(for an original one look here)

So I was a fraid of Tariq Krim reaction ! I checked all night my mails and my Netvibes account. Nothing. All was working... No lawyers, no engineers ...
Netvibes was not like Facebook.

Then, when all was quite: THE REACTION !

TERRIBLE , GIGANTIC ... I was destroyed !!

I screamed: Stop !! Stop !! Do not shoot anymore ! I was hit where it hurts !!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........

All of that because I had seen TARIQ reaction.

If you go on his Universe you will see it : THE ULTIMATE BOMB !!

Go, see for yourself...

Yes...

there...

come on ...

You do not see it ?

in green ...

come on ...

Yes, you are right...

just 14 LETTERS AND SIGNS

14 letters and signs that were changing everithing !!

the change was this message:

(in progress ;) )

I was Checkmate.

It was the end ;)

Poorest Netvibes Universe Award 2007

Hi,

since the big success (I tripled my audience) of my NETVIBER EXPERIENCE's Best Public Netvibes Universes Awards 2007 and with the increasing participation to the Online Netvibes POLL, I have decided to present also the:

NETVIBER EXPERIENCE's POOREST Public Netvibes Universes Awards 2007 .

At the moment there is only a winner (if we can call him like that) of that sad category.

This Universe was chosen for many reasons:

1) complete useless Universe as everithing shown there (4 widgets), is just personal...

2) awful headerBackground with some kind of green grass...

3) only one original widget: but it is just the ... Raving Rabbids saying : bwaaaaaaaaah

(anyway, if you want to add it to your Netvibes, here the link)

4) but the main reason to choose it, is because of its author: this Universe was made by Tariq KRIM , himself !

Yes, Netvibes CEO and founder shows us this poor Universe !

So, the NETVIBER EXPERIENCE's Poorest Netvibes Universes Awards 2007 goes to:

TARIQ's UNIVERSE !

But I am sure, as Tariq is the best asset of Netvibes, that Tariq did his Universe as this on purpose!

Yes, he wanted that all of us could feel proud to be able, one day to build a better, nicer, more usefull Public Universe!

Thanks Tariq!

Now I think too, that I will be able to do something better!

Anyway, if you want to see it, here is a Print screen of the Winner and tell if I am wrong!

The NETVIBER EXPERIENCE's Best Public Netvibes Universes Awards 2007

Hi,

While I'm still waiting for my Ginger Upgrade, I visited the Public Universe of Tariq KRIM, CEO of Netvibes.

This time his Univers was listing its 67 Friends.

So I checked all of them to see what it was all about. As the content published was not at all impressive (a lot of widgets with facebook, twitter, gmail, basic feeds,...) I decided to spot for you what I think is the best of the Public Universes on Netvibes at the end of 2007.

So here are my NETVIBER EXPERIENCE' s Best Public Netvibes Universes AWARDS for 2007:

• BEST SERIOUS LAYOUT : Gauthier's Universe for general layout, avatar, ...


• BEST UNSERIOUS LAYOUT: François' Universe as above + self derision


• BEST PAGE ON NETVIBES: Charles' Universe because is quite complete and ... because there are the Feeds from Netviber Experience.


• BIGGEST TAB OFFER : NVQA Universe: 43 Public tabs !!


• BEST WISHES 2008 TAB: again François' Universe, just look at it.


• BEST HEADLINE PICTURE: Ben' Universe with a NY skyline

and finally my preferred page

• BEST ARTY PAGE/TAB is an all graphic Universe tab/page by LOLITA (sic)

For all of those who were not checked or that have made or seen better tabs and Universes feel free to show them to me. We will have another round of Awards in 2008.

Netvibes wins Mashable best start page award

Hi,

Netvibes has won the Best Start page of the first ever OPEN WEB AWARD from Mashable !

(With in excess of 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog on social networking).

Other winners for 2007 are : Flickr, Youtube, Last.fm, Facebook ...

And the Ginger version in already online for everyone ....

In June, Netvibes was already awarded "The top 100 Webware sites for 2007" in the Browsers application.

Netvibes is a 2007 Webware 100 Award Winner

Hi,

Netvibes has just been nominated Winner in "The top 100 Webware sites for 2007" in the Browsers application.

Other winners in this category are:
Firefox
Google Reader
Internet Explorer 7
My Yahoo
Netvibes
OpenID
Opera
Safari
StumbleUpon
yourminis


Over the course of 20 days in May and June, the community of Webware.com users voted for its favorite Web applications. These are the results: the top 100 Web apps, 10 in each of 10 categories, determined by Webware readers and the fans of the sites that made the final cut.

About the Webware 100 awards
There were more than 5,000 nominations for sites to be included in this awards program, which Webware's editors pruned to a list of 250 finalists. Users then voted on those finalists--there were 489,467 votes cast--to come up with these: The top 100 Webware sites for 2007.

Netvibes was not in the The top 10 vote winners, which accounted for 45 percent of all votes, were, in alphabetical order:
Bebo
Firefox
Gaia Online
Gmail
Google
MySpace
Stardoll
Wikipedia
WordPress
YouTube

But Netvibes received more than 1.000 votes! Good Work !!

PS: I voted for Netvibes.