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!