Ouriel Ohayon from TechCrunch checks his Netvibes page before working. And you ?

Ouriel Ohayon, has just sent this Tweet on his Twitter and I , with his 1.479 followers, could read:

"coffee, twits, friendfeed, techmeme, RSS, flicr, netvibes then, only, then, work"


Ouriel Ohayon, one of the most influent French (and international) Blogger, in addition of his many professional internet activities is contributing to TechCrunch.com one of the largest blog on earth and editing the French edition of TechCrunch.

Ohayon is involved in the following Web 2.0 companies:

• TechCrunch
• Ads-Click
• playSPEX
• VesTopia
• Outbrain
• StyleShake
• Wikio
• LGilab
• Bahu.com

I added the my own (NetEx) Twitter Updates Widget to my Netvibes Experience Blog

As Twitter is becoming "ZE Instant Messaging" service of the WEB 2.0 I just added here on ther right column a Twitter Updates Widget that will present my last 3 Tweets.

Tweets (Twitter's posts) are shorter (max 140 signs) than blog post but they are much easier to post. Urls are tranformed in short url by the system and you can not publish any image.
You can send Tweets via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific , Facebook or Netvibes.

For me as a blogger is also a way to get in touch with my readers and my preferred sources ;)


1) If you want to follow my Tweets (NetEx) on your Twitter, click here:

http://twitter.com/Netviber

2) If you want to follow my Twitter (NetEx) Updates on your Netvibes page click here:



3) If you want to add your own Twitter feeds in your Netvibes page, click here:




Twitter on Wikipedia

Turn almost anything into a multi-touch interface” with TouchWall

“Turn almost anything into a multi-touch interface for just hundreds of dollars” with TouchWall, the new Microsoft Touch Screen technology!

Just amazing !

Check here a presentation by Microsoft officials:



Check this video from Techcrunch and see how easy it is to use it:





Here is how TechCrunch describes it:

"The TouchWall system presented yesterday consisted of a PC running Vista and Plex, a 4×6 foot plexiglass screen, a rear projector, a infrared camera and the three infrared lasers.

TouhWall consists of three infrared lasers that scan a surface. A camera notes when something breaks through the laser line and feeds that information back to the specific Plex software."

This TouchWall is mores impler then the Surface system also presented by Microsoft a few monthes ago and is a fundamentally simpler mechanical system, and is also significantly cheaper to produce. While Surface retails at around $10,000, the hardware to “turn almost anything into a multi-touch interface” for TouchWall is just “hundreds of dollars”.

What is strange is that : "Microsoft is quick to say that they have no current plans to productize and sell TouchWall."

Can you believe it ? They must be crazy ! Everybody would love to get one of this !

This new technology reminds me that I had already reviewed the much more expensive Multi-Touch Screen by Perceptive Pixel

The Scaling problem affects not only Netvibes but also other Social applications like Twitter

The problems that many Netvibes user are facing in connecting to their Netvibes page (see my previous post) is with great probability linked to a Difficult Scaling process.

Like all Netvibes' users I have access only to public news from Netvibes: corporate website, blogs, ... and nowhere I found anything interesting on the technical side of Netvibes.
So, it is jsut a matter of guessing...

But, reading the Web 2.0 news you understand that the big scaling problem Netvibes is finding these days with the upgrade and functioning of its Ginger release is not limited to Netvibes but it is spread to all Social Services and Applications.

If you are interested, read this very interesting post on "how to make Twitter scale" (Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications , written by Alex Iskold for ReadWriteWeb ). You will understand how data have to be distributed and why problems occur.,

PS:
Could somebody from Netvibes confirm or deny and give Netvibes'users more news on this and other technical subjects ?
I am sure that it is easier to accept a problem when you know and you are informed than the contrary ;)

Lot of users still complain for not being able to access their Netvibes page

2 weeks after the huge Spring Update of Netvibes that has upgraded all users to the Ginger "social" release, a lot of users still complain for not being able to access their Netvibes page.

Just check my capture of the Netvibes' Summize of all Twitter's messages containing "netvibes" and you will see that they are numerous and coming from all over the world :(

Saturday, Paul Adams of Blog.Wired.com was also complaining...

Paul Adams of Blog.Wired.com uses Netvibes as his daily feed aggregator. And you ?

I was reading this in a post from Paul Adams of Blog.Wired.com (one of the Blogs of Wired, ZE Web magazine) :

"....I don't mean to pick on Netvibes. I use it as my daily feed aggregator. I enjoy its features, I've created my own custom modules, and it makes my life significantly more convenient.

But I've seen that message above a few times lately. It's exactly because I enjoy Netvibes that I risk becoming dependent on it, and hence being a victim of outages and whatnot..."

This post was complaining for an : " Sorry, we are unable to connect you to Netvibes" outage sign that we all have seen at least once ;)

If you want to add the Blog.Wired.com widget to your Netvibes page click here:

Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read/WriteWeb uses Netvibes as startpage. And you ?

In his recent post about Five Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have (IMHO), Marshall Kirkpatrick , influential Lead Author at Read/WriteWeb writes:

"Startpage

Every place I work I set up an RSS startpage for myself and my co-workers. Consulting clients, non-profits, anybody I can get my hands on gets a startpage before I'm done with them. I usually use Netvibes just because it's easy to share pages, the OPML handling is pretty good and the mobile version is great. The new Ginger version breaks sharing for some people, though.

I put the highest priority RSS feeds that I subscribe to on that startpage, then put a link to it on my browser toolbar. I click on that maybe once an hour and see if these top sources have anything new. It's quick and easy, much easier than opening up a whole feed reader."

You can see in the image a capture of his Netvibes page.

And you, what are you using and why ?

If you want to add the ReadWriteWeb widget on your Netvibes page, click here: