I added the my own (NetEx) Twitter Updates Widget to my Netvibes Experience Blog

As Twitter is becoming "ZE Instant Messaging" service of the WEB 2.0 I just added here on ther right column a Twitter Updates Widget that will present my last 3 Tweets.

Tweets (Twitter's posts) are shorter (max 140 signs) than blog post but they are much easier to post. Urls are tranformed in short url by the system and you can not publish any image.
You can send Tweets via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific , Facebook or Netvibes.

For me as a blogger is also a way to get in touch with my readers and my preferred sources ;)


1) If you want to follow my Tweets (NetEx) on your Twitter, click here:

http://twitter.com/Netviber

2) If you want to follow my Twitter (NetEx) Updates on your Netvibes page click here:



3) If you want to add your own Twitter feeds in your Netvibes page, click here:




Twitter on Wikipedia

Some Netvibes Ginger users want to downgrade to Coriander

TheNetvibes Blog comments shows that some Netvibes users are not happy with the Ginger release. Many find it too slow.

If you think the same,

1. try to empty your cache with this "magic" url: httt://www.netvibes.com/?reset_cache=1
   
2. send an email to Netvibes support team (check for feeback in the bottom menu of your page)
   

But, if you really prefer to go back and downgrade to previuos version Coriander, still available from Netvibes, here is how to do it:

1) get a new Netvibes account with a different email

2) do not register to go to Ginger

3) import your Feeds from the Ginger version with the OPML file (that is a catalogue of RSS and ATOM feeds you use).

To get your own OPLM file with Ginger :

1. go to Add Content
   
2. Add a feed
   
3. look for the small text OPML and select export

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

Only ADD "relevant" CONTENT is more than 3 clicks away in Netvibes'Ginger

Hi,

Now the ONLY THING that Netvibes does not allow me to do in less than 3 clicks is to ADD RELEVANT CONTENT for all my neds.

The matter is important as you know that all Wevsite owners try to apply the "three clicks rule" which states that" no important piece of information should ever be more than three clicks away from anywhere else on your Web site"

The "ADD CONENT" of Netvibes' Ginger is where I have the biggest difficulties to find in less than 3 cliks the "Relevant Feed, Widget or Content" I want.

That is an old problem with NETVIBES Search :( , and my solution in the great majority of cases is outside Netvibes... with Google Search.


* At the moment, with Ginger "Add Content" I do not have the Local Content selection of feeds that I had with Coriander. It that was not perfect but was a start...

Netvibes should solve this by:

1) insert a new button LOCAL CONTENT in the Add Content and:

• offer an option to choose the Location you are looking for (and not only the one where you said you were living at the Registration)
• integrate all the Feeds, widgets, tabs and Universes that are "relevant" to the location. This can only achieved with a much better Netvibes search

2) replace the Add Feed button with a SEARCH FEED one in the Add Content:
this new button will search Feeds (rss, atom, xml, rdf) in the Netvibes Database (much larger than the one proposed now) and also in the Web. This will keep user in the page.

3) completly rethink the BROWSE CATEGORIES.
If i select the Sport Category (with these user settings Local content: UK land anguage: English here is the result:

As you can see no "relevant" result for any Uk sport lover because no Relevant National Feed is there with news about the Premier League Football, Rugby, Tennis, Golf ... Oh, yes, I could check the 424 feeds, 18 at the timeshoping to find the right content. It would take me 24 cliks and assuming 1 second to read each feed title It would take me 7 minutes to find what I want, IF IT IS THERE ... No good value for my time :(

But if you go on a Google.co.uk widget and you ask for: url +sport +rss you will have: BBC, SKY Sport, Yahoo! Sport feeds in 1-2-3 position !! in ... 3 seconds. Convincing ;)

But as Netvibes is opening up for a "non-geek" audience those aspects are a key to success or failure. My sister, my colleague, my friend John (who know nothing about feeds, widgets, rss, html, blog...) need to find everything fast and easy at less than 3 clicks away to use at full capabilities Netvibes.

At the moment, the SEARCH for CONTENT gives the wrong impression that it is used to promote chosen content (by Netvibes) at the expenses of Better content for the user.

But the "relevant" Content is the key for success. If it was true for Google it will be true for Netvibes.

Rember Back in 2000 when Google was fighting against Altavista (who ?) and Yahoo Google' boss and founder Sergey Brin declared " When somebody searches for 'cancer' , should you put up the site that paid you (as Altavista and Yahoo) or the site that has better information (Google)? Brin is betting better information will win the day. " And Brin was right, no ?


(My previous posts were: things I can do in Netvibes with 0 (no) clicks , with just 1 click , in 2 clicks and in 3 clicks)

With 1 click in Ginger's Netvibes I can do...

Hi,

After my previuos post about things I can do with no click at all from my Ginger release Netvibes' Page here the List of Things I can do with just 1 click :

1. Read any of my Feeds either in my page or in a new window of my browser.
2. Read any of my Emails in a new window.
   
3. Write a message or a note in the widgets like message Board, twitter, webnote, ...
4. Follow a link in a new window.
5. Launch a video, a podacst, an mp3 or any other application
   
6. Watch an image in real size,...
   
7. open any other TAB of my Private Netvibes Page (with a click on the Tab) and then read, check, look at all its content (see previous Post)
8. check a Selection of 6 Content Widgets done by Netvibes based on my Country selection. (just click +Add Content in the Upper Menu)
9. Go to my Public Universe, a special page open to all visitors. Also there I will be able to check with no other click the first Tab.(click on O Go to my universe in the Upper menu)
   
10. read all my Friends' Activities: what single Feed they each "starred" with a comment, or what they have wrote in their own Status Profile using it as a Instant messaging service. (just click on * Activities in the Upper menu)
11. check how many Friends and Followers I have and see the avatars of the first 8-12 Friends (click on Contacts in Upper menu)
    
12. look at my own Status in Profile
13. go to the help page with the FAQ from Netvibes.
    
14. do a new search in any search widget or search just on all my Netvibes page with all its Tabs ! In this case all Feed, news and Email widgets will be searched and the terms searched will be highlited while the no result wisgets will be collapsed! Impressive and useful.
15. change the title of m page ;)
    

to be continued... For posts: with 0 clicks and with 2 clicks.

Netvibe introduces the Premium Widgets

Hi,

in the same blog, Netvibes also introduces a Premium Widget program which allows large media companies and publishers to instantly syndicate multiple media properties without having to develop individual widgets on multiple platforms.

Premium Widgets are Universal Widgets that merge multiple feeds, podcasts or video channels into a single widget, within a branded and sponsored environment.

Premium Widget launch partners include: CBS Interactive, BBC Mundo, El Pais, El Mundo, Le Figaro, MTV.it, Il Sole 24, CNET Asia and Sports.cn.

The New York Times Premium Widget is a good example. It is in fact an Universe but in a single widget where you can choose more than 15 news feeds in this widget: National, International, Business, Sports, Technology, Arts and many more.

In the end if you are interested in all of them you will probably switch for 15 individual widgets but if you want just the ability to check them from time to time the Premium Widget is a good solution!

Mix together up to 6 Feeds in just 1 Feed

Hi,

As I was checking the first results of the mini-poll on Netvibes uses (here on the right) I observed without surprise that the main use of Netvibes is to Read Feeds.

If you check the Netvibes ecosystem you can choose from 86.230 feeds !
Myself I has suscribed to more than 100. Some Feeds are updated every hour or so (as a Google News Feed) but other even the Feed from this blog is update 1 or 2 times a day at maximum.

Then it could be usefull to mix together and blend different Feeds on the same subject (let's says Netvibes) and get just one Feed. Well, FEEDBLENDER does just that!

You go on their site and without any registration, just by copy/paste the feeds URL you want to mix or blend, you get a single blended Feed.

As simple as that! As they say: "FeedBlendr takes a bunch of RSS, RDF or Atom feeds (news, blogs, podcasts, you name it) and puts the contents of all of them into a single "blend", which is ordered by date, newest at the top. You can then view the blend online, on a mobile device, integrate it into your own site, or just subscribe to it in any news reader. Oh yeah, and it's free!"

FEEDBLENDER prepares also a list of different URLs adapted to different uses of the new feed ( atom, rss, m, html...) and you can put your feed where you want.

The only limitation I know: If this blend is not accessed by anyone for more than 3 months, it may be automatically removed...

I have already prepared one for you. You can check it here: http://feedblendr.com/blends/18672

It is just the blend of Netvibes Official Blog Feed with the Feed of the Google News search on Netvibes.

Try yourself this very good tool!

I published my PARIS (France) Tab in Netvibes ecosystem

Hi,

after my London (UK) tab, I have just published the Paris (France) tab in the Netvibes ecosystem.

I compiled more than 50 feeds, logs and widgets on the French capital. It will be usefull for Parisians and visitors. Unfortunately the majority are in French (it would help an online translator for Feeds...).

Here is the list:

Contents:
Cityvox Paris Adresses
sommelier, Paris
Perturbations en Ile de France
Cityvox Paris Evenements
Le Blagueur à Paris
FRENCH HOLYDAYS
Cityvox Paris Accueil
Horaires RATP
Cityvox Paris Les sorties cinéma dans les salles parisiennes
Infotrafic.com
paris.thover.com en
Trafic RATP
Les Echos - ile de France
Carte des expos en cours à Paris - Artscape.fr
Audio Guide de Paris gratuit
Pages Blanches
20minutes - Paris
ViaMichelin
Toutes les photos taggée avec paris
WiFi Hotspots Finder
ViStA aime... ou pas !
V-Trafic - Information Trafic en temps réel
Expos à l'affiche
Paris traffic
Paris Logue
leParisien.com - L'info du Parisien
Photos de Cent déclics
The Paris Blog: Group Blog about Paris, France
Paris etudiant / Agenda Soirees
Jazz in Paris News
ParisDailyPhoto
Wombat Agenda
Wombat City guide
Paris etudiant / Agenda Expos
parisperdu
artscape.fr
Lesinrocks - CONCERTS
VODKACOCA SELECTION NUIT
VODKACOCA
AlloCiné -
Le Figaro - Culture
Libération
Daily art news
Google News - Culture
Le Monde : Culture
Voyage
Comme Au Cinema : Actu

Best of Paris (France): 51 widgets : Wether, Traffic, Culture, Blogs, Transportation, Maps, News, Photos, Audio guides, rent a bike stations, Bars, Night life, Exhibitions,...

Another practical Use for Netvibes

Hi,

I was wondering what are the real practical uses for Netvibes.

For sure the first one is as a Personal Feed Aggregator Reader : multiple feeds from different sources in a smaller and compact presentation all on the same page (Ex: the Web 2.0 Tab)

But I found another practical use for Netvibes as a Searching Page for multiple Data Libraries: as reported by CMB, a medical library in the north of the Netherlands who presents a list of search modules.

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%