Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts

23/07/2007

WZD.com: a new competitor for Netvibes

Hi,

Reading the stats of this Blog, I was attracted by an unknown short url: WZD.com . I followed the link and there it was a new Korean Competitor to Netvibes.

I do not read Korean but I was able to change my background theme and could have registred. Instead I googled for some news and here is a short description in English from WEB2.0 Asia:

"WZD.com (pronounced Wizard.com), a Korean offering of web start page, has beta launched its new version. According to 2Z, a Korean blogger (note: link in Korean), the notable features of the new version include:

  • Sharing web widgets and personal pages: Users can share the widgets and startpages they created with other users. The place where these assets can be posted and shared is called "Oz".
  • Better UI and design: Unlike on other startpage services, WZD.com users can freely adjust the size of the widgets. Also widgets can be overlaid on top of other widgets, not necessarily constrained to move only up and down within the given horizontal boundaries.
  • Web widget API: WZD.com announced WZDAPI, a widget-creating API that's compatible with Mac OS, Google, Netvibes, etc. "

So Technical competition on the AJAX homepage platform is increasing everyday.

Among Netvibes competitors we can point:
http://my.yahoo.com/
http://www.google.com/ig
http://my.msn.com/
http://www.live.com/
http://about.aol.com/myaol
http://my.netscape.com/
http://www.protopage.com/
http://www.pageflakes.com/
http://www.webwag.com/
...
I think is time for Netvibes to go for real good content!

14/03/2007

NETVIBES Competitors: Unique Users Data

Hi,
I resume here, from TECHCRUNCH, the Numbers of the Uniques Users(*) of PERSONAL HOME PAGES as tracked by COMSCORE in their January 2007 worldwide report.

My Yahoo : 50.2 millions Unique Users (Among Visitors Age 15+)
My MSN : 11.9
Google IG : 7.1
My AOL : 2.1
My Netscape : 0.7

There is only one big winner : My Yahoo !

The 50 millions Users of My Yahoo compared with the estimated worldwide audience of 747 millions credits this service of an impressive penetrationn rate of ...7% when the aggregate 72 millions of the Big 5 personal Home pages gives them a 10% rate.

The other Big Netvibes' Competitors are really far away... Even Google!

And Netvibes ? Too small audience to be selected by COMSCORE...

(*) For more details on ComScore methodology.