Google robot already found 745 Netvibes Universes & Modules

Hi,

if you make a search with Google with the string: "site:www.netvibes" you will find today 745 Universes and Modules

My Universe, http://www.netvibes.com/netviberexperience is there. And yours ?

If you do not want to check all the results just add also your Universe' name in the search box ;).

I have a lot to choose from for my Best Universes by NetEx.

Total number of Modules (Multi-Feeds Content Widgets from Media sources) is 203.

Netvibes Practical Uses: Reputation Management & Dashboard Building

Hi,

In my search for "Practical Uses" of Netvibes I just found a series of interesting posts about :

1) REPUTATION MANAGEMENT Tracking: is the process of tracking keywords related to staff, products or even service names to see who is talking about you online, as a live service.

Glen Allsopp gives a step by step approach based on Google Reader but you can do the same with Netvibes ;)

2) DASHBOARD BUILDING: to do your job and seem to stay on top of the blogosphere.

Sam created a mashed up widget dashboard powered by Netvibes, Yahoo Pipes, AideRSS, Dapper, and a few others to allow him "to rewire the web to work for me".

Final suggestion: using Clearspace as my single collaboration platform, nothing has made me more productive than my dashboard. Now…wouldn’t it be nice to have both my dashboard and Clearspace mashed into one thing.

Dawn Foster from Metablog gives a step by step approach in integrating Netvibes, Pipes, AideRSS, Dapper for an Intelligence dashboard full of practical tips and details:

• Powering modules with Pipes
• Leveraging popularity to drive focus
• Making feeds where none previously existed

I will try all this because I have now too many feeds to track just for Netvibes ...

Build your own Reader of Feeds with Image: 3***

Hi,

I wanted to offer to my readers the opportunity to follow my Netvibes Experience Blog with feeds and one Image as I had seen in this Wikio Universe widgets in my selection.

But my feeds are processed by Feedburner and there is not this option (I should check again...). Anyway, I looked on the add content of Netvibes but found nothing.

So I went to WidgetBox.com and I found their "Bildget" service for Blogs. In 2 minutes I built the Widget you can see here.

(Tip: to use it on your Netvibes page, just the Add Content and get the Essential Widget : Html. Then copy/paste the code you get in WidgetBox/Get Widget/Get Widget Code)


It is bigger then the usual Netvibes feed reader as I choosed a larger version to be able to show the first image of any post, but I like it.

You can get The NetEx Blog Widget here for any platform you like or you can see it working on my Universe here and then send it to your own page.

If you know a blog that you like that shows nice images (artistic, advertising, photos,...) and you would like to see an image, that's the way to have it !! You just need the Url.

Look at the Image on the Top to compare the Clean and sober version by Netvibes and on the right my version with image...

Rating: 3***

Best User Interface: Multi-Touch Screen by Perceptive Pixel. Whow!

Hi,

I just discovered (thanks Tariq) the Best User Interface with the Multi-Touch Screen by Perceptive Pixel

The company was founded by Jeff Han in 2006 and they develop and market the most advanced multi-touch system in the world.

Actual main uses: military (:( ) , TV stations, ...

A good review from FastCompany writes:

Han's touch display, by contrast, redefines the way commands are given to a computer: It uses both movement and pressure--from multiple inputs, whether 2 fingers or 20--to convey information to the silicon brain under the display.

The screen is not only smudge resistant but durable--or as Han says, "peanut butter--proof"

"Han's machine is faster--much faster--because there's nothing between me and the data: no mouse, no cursor, no pull-down windows. It's seamless, immediate, ridiculously easy. No manual required".

THE PERFECT USER INTERFACE!


Check the Official Video here on YouTube

Netvibes Add Content Search not perfect ;)

Hi,

A small post to note that the Netvibes Add Content Search has what I think an another little problem.

If I want to search for a Widget with the string : "Paris" and I have chosen in the settings: Country=United Kingdom and Language=English I will have 109 results:


but if you choose another setting like: Country=France and Language=English you will have now 373 results !! More than tripled!!


Why? I do not think that there are many good explanation as I could be a Greek living in UK speaking English and with the desire to go to Paris or a French living in UK speaking English and wanting to have content on Paris...

Update with links of my selection of Netvibes Public Universes

Hi,

here is UPDATED LIST of BEST UNIVERSES by NetEx with links: (order is just practical... ;) )

1. Content Guitar Tabs + Aurora Borealis predictions: a strange mix
2. Good French only Feeds by Founder of Wikio : all feeds with picture: I like
3. Nice Brazilian Food TAB: miam
4. Large CHoice of Feeds: a lot in many different fields
5. NetEX07 Award for Best Serious Layout: will have to improve to maintain title ...
6. NetEx07 Award for Best Unserious Layout: very good, could perhaps add some cartoons
7. NetEx07 Award for Best Headline Picture: New York, New York...
8. Nice Layout: I like dark background ;)
9. Swedish Content: but an image with snow
10. NetExp07 Award for Best Arty Page ***: I just liked it
11. Miss Netvibes: and she can sing too !
12. Content: Medical Library Toolbox: a very good job and professional !!
13. Best Commercial site: Jajah
14. Content: News and Blogs on the European Union: if you are interested
15. Content US PRESIDENTIAL Elections ***: Best content so far by a pro
16. Content: Web Entrepreneur: we all know one ;)
17. Content: All on Netvibes: Yes, my universe, but at the moment is the best ;)
18. Content: Official Netvibes Universe: check and compare with mine ;)
19. Content: Biggest Offer: 42 Tabs , OMG !
20. Content: First Sex Universe: check it if you have your parents permission ;)

After the success of the last BEST UNIVERSES 2007 Awards I decided to share with everyone my preferred Public NetvibesUniverses so here my New tab: "Best Universes by NetEx".

It is just a personnal choice to show other users work, taste, efforts and findings.

I am still looking for good and rich content (not just copy/paste or just feeds) coupled with nice, original design. Everybody is still "under construction" and I am sure we will have interesting discoveries.

I have a Message Board for you to drop me an Universe URL (yours or one you liked) or your comments and I will check it... But wait untill you have something solid to show.

Thanks Netvibes !

Enjoy!

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)