Netvibes Practical Uses: Reputation Management & Dashboard Building

Hi,

In my search for "Practical Uses" of Netvibes I just found a series of interesting posts about :

1) REPUTATION MANAGEMENT Tracking: is the process of tracking keywords related to staff, products or even service names to see who is talking about you online, as a live service.

Glen Allsopp gives a step by step approach based on Google Reader but you can do the same with Netvibes ;)

2) DASHBOARD BUILDING: to do your job and seem to stay on top of the blogosphere.

Sam created a mashed up widget dashboard powered by Netvibes, Yahoo Pipes, AideRSS, Dapper, and a few others to allow him "to rewire the web to work for me".

Final suggestion: using Clearspace as my single collaboration platform, nothing has made me more productive than my dashboard. Now…wouldn’t it be nice to have both my dashboard and Clearspace mashed into one thing.

Dawn Foster from Metablog gives a step by step approach in integrating Netvibes, Pipes, AideRSS, Dapper for an Intelligence dashboard full of practical tips and details:

• Powering modules with Pipes
• Leveraging popularity to drive focus
• Making feeds where none previously existed

I will try all this because I have now too many feeds to track just for Netvibes ...

Themed Public Netvibes Universes: the new way to choose Content

Hi,

waiting for the General relase of Ginger to all Netviber users and also thinking at the millions of potential "future non-geek user users" for Netvibes I would like to propose a new way to offer Content on Netvibes: Themed Public Universes.

The Search method works only if you know what you want, but we do not always know what we would like. That is why, other people experience is valuable (so, we read others' feed, twitters, friends status,... ) but that way is not an organized way.

But Netvibes' Ginger with the Public Universe is the solution with the "Send to your Private Page/Public Universe" option !

We need a series of Themed Universes : NEWS , FINANCE, FOOD, TRAVEL, SPORT, GAMES, ... by LANGUAGE and by COUNTRY ?
Those Dedicated Universes would be made of "selected" and relieable widgets and news.

The users could visit those Themed Universes and with just one click send all the news, widgets, pics, maps, notes, comments, ideas he has just discovered on its own Netvibes Page.

From the TRAVEL Universe, let's say, I would see and read the best travel widgets aggregated by TABs: Airlines, Tourist Guides, Destinations, Last minutes, ...
Or Imagine the Touristic Brazil Universe: Beaches, Food, Football, Carnival, Music, Unknown Brazil, ...

In an humble way, is what I try to achieve with my Netviber Experience Universe all dedicated to the Netvibes World... ;) but others are going the same way...

Look here, is WZD.com a Netvibes clone that I discovered some time ago, that is proposing 2 Themed Universes: a "Finance Universe" and an "Enterprise Universe": dozens of Tabs with dozens of Widgets selected by subject. BUT NO, I DO NOT READ KOREAN ;)

First Interesting Netvibes Universe: I love Politics ! (Netviber Experience rating of 10/10)

Hi,

I have jus found this Universe, ILovePolitics, finally a Netvibes Universe with real content and real work done to prepare it.

Created by French Marjorie Paillon, is the most complete site about the US Presidency election.

With 21 Tabs and hundreds of feeds, news, videos, humor,data, maps, dates, polls,... from the USA, UK and France, ILovePolitics Universe is the place to go to follow this great event.

That is what I mean when I was writing about content and "Human content aggregation" !

It is with this kind of content, that Netvibes could really become popular. Yes, the vast majority of my friends and all my family do not understand what is an RSS and when they do they are not able to find and get some. But they can read it, if its ready made !

And here Netvibes is the best: you just keep the feeds you like !! You place them as you want ! and slowly you get ideas and you can start searching for something...

That could be "part of the viral" approach that Netvibes needs to explode.

Only small critic: the Headline picture for the Universe i quite big when I watch it from my LapTop...

In conclusion: Netviber Experience Rating: 10/10

If I wanted to earn revenues with Netvibes...

Hi,

I was thinking about which ways I could use if I wanted to get revenues with Netvibes.

Here is a first list:

1. creating an "exclusive content Univers" using Netvibes as a "media platform" to aggregate content with several different widgets and selling the audience to Advertisers. These Content Universes (say the "New York Restaurants Univers by Peter: lists, reviews, suggestions ") should have some kind of exclusivity and promotion from Netvibes or they could just be "rented" to Netvibes .
   
2. creating "single widgets" to be placed on Netvibes and other platforms and selling that audience to Advertisers
3. getting an exclusive deal with Netvibes as their only Advertising Sales agency selling cumulative or targetted audiences to Advetisers

For all of those, I would need some agreement from Netvibes and more data on the actual users.

And you will correctly guess which is my preferred solution at the moment...

If there are many others with ideas like this, netvibes could have found its business model.

Netvibes needs some Human Content Aggregation

Hi,

In my previous posts on Netvibes and Content I was pointing to the fact that for "Non-nerds" Netvibes does not offer a lot of digested Data ready to use.
That's why I prepared my self the London (UK) and Paris (France) Tabs.

Pageflakes, one of Netvibes competitor, is going in my way. They have just published a FOOD page with feeds, blogs, recipes, pictures. It is a starting point for an "non-tech" English speaking audience and I am sure that Netvibes should go also that way but better.

I am surprised to see that there is no major INTERNET MUSIC page from Netvibes, knowing that Netvibes CEO, Tariq Krim and many of his team are coming from the Internet Music World.

When I speak about Human Content Aggregation is a way to signify that Automatic Aggreagtion is possible only with "experts" because they already know the subject and the sources.
But the average Internet User is not. Most of my friends and family have not already heard about RSS or Netvibes and there is the future.

Netvibes is waiting for the GINGER release to become social but, I insists, it is Content, Human Content, that will make the difference!