Do you have a Fat laptop ? I do...

Hi,

a nice and fun video, nothing to do with Netvibes (the exception that confirms the rule) about the FAT LAPTOPS ? Do you have one ? I do ...

Are you going to be part of the next Ginger Upgrade?

Hi,

This Thursday, the Netvibes Ginger Upgrade will be reality for the first 2.500 registred users !

That is the message posted by Tariq Krim, Netvibes' CEO:

"we are starting a new wave of invitations for ginger starting next thursday, and we will invite all the 2500 first people you registered in this group."

Netvibes Partners With China's Premier Network of Web Properties, Sohu, and Web Browser, Maxthon

Hi,

Here is the news: Netvibes Partners With China's Premier Network of Web Properties, Sohu, and Web Browser, Maxthon, to Promote the Global Exchange of Universal Widgets.

Sohu is the foremost network of leading web properties and portals in China and represents one of the biggest developer communities in the world. Sohu announced its new Open Widget Platform on January 1, 2008, and held the first Sohu Open Widget Developer Forum two days later. Sohu Open Widget Platform supports Netvibes UWA to empower its developer community to rapidly develop and distribute universal widgets across the web. All Netvibes Universal Widgets now are compatible with the Sohu Open Platform and all Sohu universal widgets will be distributed across the Netvibes Ecosystem.

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

Netvibes joins Dataportability group:

Hi,

Tariq KRIM, founder and CEO of Netvibes, has just announced that after: Google, Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Flickr, also Netvibes was joining the Dataportability working group.

We all use Google, Facebook, Flickr, or a similar kind of service and almost every day we have problems transfering or just using data from one service to the other. I can upload my contacts to Facebook but I can not download them ...

The Objectives of this working group is:
" To put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, vendor and end-user community."

In other words, The group is working on a variety of projects where users could take their data from the websites they use to reuse elsewhere. On the other side, vendors could leverage safe cross-site data exchange for a whole new level of innovation.

That move is another step towards an increase integration of Social life that could lead to my "dreamed single social interface".

But remember that a working group is by no means sure to achieve its goals...

If youn are that interested you can join or just read the Google's Public Group on Data Portability.

You can check more than 1 gmail account with Netvibes

Hi,

I need to check my 3-4 GMAIL accounts. Everytime I have to reenter USER and PASSWORD.

I hoped that Netvibes could help me.
You have a GMAIL widget. I installed and it works perfect.
Then I dupliacated it, i changed user and pass settings and it started to work!

So I have 2 GMAIL widgets checking 2 different GMAIL accounts but I can only read the Object of the email.
Top read the full email, I still have to Login manualy for every Gmail account.

It bothers me but I am not the only one. Check here.

First Results of the NETVIBES POLL: a Private Universe and a Netvibes Community

Hi,

the first results of the 2008 NETVIBES POLL (that you can vote here on the right column)
are available and we get among others:

1) 72% would like the possibility to have : Only a Private Group of Friends to access a specific page or Universe

2) 59% would like to be part of a "Wide Netvibes Community" ?

They are interesting as they give more indication of the social twist available with the new Ginger update of Netvibes that we are all waiting. (Have you given your name on the Facebook Netvibes Group ?)

A Private Universe, that could be seen and, why not used, by a small private group and in the same time a bigger, larger Community of users of the same service, focused on Netvibes.

It is not new, per se, but all this is new for Netvibes.