New Netvibes Tour and Slogan: "SAVE 30 MINUTES OF YOUR INTERNET TIME EVERYDAY"

Netvibes has also prepared a "Tour" of the Ginger release that explains step by step what to do and how to do it. A very good tool if you are a new user !

Netvibes has also a new double Slogan:

MANAGE YOUR DIGITAL LIFE IN ONE PAGE.
SAVE 30 MINUTES OF YOUR INTERNET TIME EVERYDAY

I can only agree ;)

Only down side: the presentation Tour is not adapted to LapTops with normal screen sizes :( and at the moment is only in English.

All new Netvibes users are now offered only the Ginger Update version at registration

While migration to Ginger update continues for all registred users (still with some problems), all new Netvibes users are now offered the Ginger Update at registration.


So, now I will be able to invite my "real friends" and they will be on Ginger in just a click ;)
Thanks!


That means also the end for the Coriander version.

Why Netvibes is not directly upgrading new users to Ginger ?

I had to prepare a Netvibes page for my wife. She is not a techie and does not like all the preparatory staff: register, sign in, confirm ... so I do that for her.

But what a surprise, new users with Netvibes are still stuck with a revamped Coriander release version: a nicer layout, some functionalities like the share widget but no Friends, no Activities.

That means that at the moment, Netvibes puts its best version at more than 8 clicks away from the "not yet user "(check image: 6 steps just to go to Ginger) !!??
If the 6 steps were acceptable for users upgrading from Coriander release, it is not for new users

That is not good for a service that is looking to the Big Audience in a very competitive market.

Hope for them, that they will change that soon or they will lose momentum.

NEW USER TAB: to help you start your Netvibes page if you are a new user

Hi,

If you are a "New User" and you would like to start using Netvibes, the first screen offerd at the moment by Netvibes is, as I already posted, so poor ...

So I prepared and published a tab, the NEW USER TAB that could be used as a starting point to build a "good" starting page for Netvibes new users.

The idea is that Netvibes should ask the new user something like :
"Please set your location to receive local news, blog feeds, weather and more "

As it is not exisitng at the moment, in my tab, I have done it by hand.
For starting the discussion I choose : DUBLIN and IRELAND but it would work for any other location.

The Tab presents what could be a new "new user tab" for Netvibes with:

a Weather widget (already existing)
some local news blogs (already existing) that I choosed from Netvibes Local content : Ireland
the email wizard widget (already existing)
the Ebay widget (already existing)
a map search (already existing)
the Ecosystem search widget (already existing)
and many searches widgets set on DUBLIN and the same set on IRELAND

The searches on the Location with the instruction on how to get the FEEDS directly on his new page should "inspire" the new user offering a choice of sources. The best selection is made, according to me, by Google.

That way, with the addition of a short Webnote to explain the first moves and with the links to FAQ and ECOSYSTEM it should help the user to catch the real value of the use of Netvibes.

PS:
the ECOSYSTEM Latest modules search widget is not working properly.
If I search in the widget for IRELAND it gives no results when if I search directly in the Ecosystem I can find 57 results of which some are pertinent.

The BBC has launched a Netvibes style homepage

Hi,

the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has just launched a new homepage very much in the style of Netvibes, reports the Read/WriteWeb blog.

At the moment, you can only choose in the BBC content of news and services but who knows in the future ?

"Please set your location to receive local news, weather and TV/radio schedules"...
a text I would be pleased to see in the new users page of Netvibes.

When I was saying that content is the center of the war...