What Netvibes and Facebook have in common ?

Hi,

with the new Ginger update coming It would be interesting to think at what Netvibes and Facebook have in common.

Today I have not time to do it but I found a very intersting user interview by Alex Iskold of ReadWriteWeb that gives some ideas...

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!

new NETVIBES POLL available !

Hi,

I have created a new NETVIBES POLL to better understand what are the needs of users waiting for the Ginger Release.

I have done it with MISTERPOLL and if Netvibes wants it I will transfer to them the download of the results that are anyway available to all of you here.

So, thank you in advance.

GO HERE for the new NETVIBES POLL n°1 , no signing or email needed !

Results of the 1st POLL on Netvibes

Hi,

Some weeks ago I launched the first Poll on Netvibes here on Netviber Experience:

Simple question:

NETVIBES IS GOOD FOR ?

1. Reading Feeds : 92%
2. Checking Websites : 52%
3. Keeping Bookmarks : 42%
4. Syncronizing different Computers : 39%
5. Searching the Web : 31%

So with no surprise the First actual use for Netvibes is as a Feed Reader.

Probably the Ginger socializing Update if coupled with better content should switch the uses of Netvibes towards "communication" and "information" in a larger sense.

It could be interesting to read the Polls that Netvibes has SURELY already produced on their service especially now that more than 2000 users waiting for an upgrade.

The NETVIBER EXPERIENCE's Best Public Netvibes Universes Awards 2007

Hi,

While I'm still waiting for my Ginger Upgrade, I visited the Public Universe of Tariq KRIM, CEO of Netvibes.

This time his Univers was listing its 67 Friends.

So I checked all of them to see what it was all about. As the content published was not at all impressive (a lot of widgets with facebook, twitter, gmail, basic feeds,...) I decided to spot for you what I think is the best of the Public Universes on Netvibes at the end of 2007.

So here are my NETVIBER EXPERIENCE' s Best Public Netvibes Universes AWARDS for 2007:

• BEST SERIOUS LAYOUT : Gauthier's Universe for general layout, avatar, ...


• BEST UNSERIOUS LAYOUT: François' Universe as above + self derision


• BEST PAGE ON NETVIBES: Charles' Universe because is quite complete and ... because there are the Feeds from Netviber Experience.


• BIGGEST TAB OFFER : NVQA Universe: 43 Public tabs !!


• BEST WISHES 2008 TAB: again François' Universe, just look at it.


• BEST HEADLINE PICTURE: Ben' Universe with a NY skyline

and finally my preferred page

• BEST ARTY PAGE/TAB is an all graphic Universe tab/page by LOLITA (sic)

For all of those who were not checked or that have made or seen better tabs and Universes feel free to show them to me. We will have another round of Awards in 2008.

ZYMEE: another Netvibes clone

Hi,

I have just visited ZYMEE, a chinese homepage with widgets.

From the Image above , you have just the impression to see the Coriander update of Netvibes !!

Sale colours, same 3 column disposition, same left column for the Content, same login sign in upper right corner, same...

But if you click on a widget, you will see the same colour choice, almost the same text than in Netvibes, as the third choice is quite revealing:

CLONE THIS CHANNEL ...

Well, just another copy, another Netvibes clone.