Follow the Euro 2008 with Netvibes (4*/5) and other Footbal widgets

Now that Euro 2008 has started you will realize that you need to know that match result or to check the standings or want to read the last updated news or to follow the live result of a match playing.

For that Netvibes has prepeared a nice and cool Euro 2008 public Universe Tab : one in English and one in Français.
The tab in the Universe in English presents only US widgets for a sport called "Soccer" :)

If you prefer more European Football widgets (it's Euro 2008 , no ?) like the one's by: UEFA, BBC, SKY and other languages as Gazzetta, L'Equipe, ... you should check also my own public universe Football Tab:

http://www.netvibes.com/sport#FOOTBALL

and my new Euro 2008 Tab:

http://www.netvibes.com/sport#Euro2008


I invite you nto go there and check for yourself the widgets you prefer... The Netvibes Widget Euro2008 is a must.(4*/5)

To get any of them, yust click on the envelope on the right side of the title of the widget.

Good move by Netvibes, that now presents its human collected content with the Universes and not just a blog post!


Enjoy !! and I hope that my team will win :-)

Try PicLens (full-screen, 3D experience for viewing photos and videos across the web) and you will never search images again as before 5*/5

WE's time and I was reading the Economist. Yes, the paper edition ;)
An I just wanted to check a tip from them: " New techniques to navigate and gather information online promise to revolution web browsing".

And it is true ! I tried this PicLens from Cooliris: it can be installed as an add-on on Firefox (mine is FF2) and it is possible to use it also with :
Firefox (Windows)
Firefox (Mac)
Internet Explorer
Safari (Mac)

"PicLens transforms your browser into a PicLens transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing photos and videos across the web. With one click, PicLens makes online media come to life via an immersive presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser. for viewing photos and videos across the web. With one click, PicLens makes online media come to life via an immersive presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser."

It is fast, smooth, elegant and effective. With you mouse, you move the wall of images as they appear from right to left or the left to right. You want to see one you click on it. Zoom in it ? click again.

Up there you can see the capture for a Google Image Search for : Galaxy Milky Way
and down here is the same search in "normal" Browser view...

NO WAY , I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO NORMAL SEARCH !
Forget clicking page after page in search of the right image!They are all displayed in an endless wall... For me is Science-fiction coming true !



A search is integrated in PicLens but just a simple one (no image size)

Check here the Demo, is really working like that and I have an "2 years old" laptop :)




Here are theother services that are supported:

	Photo	Social	Image Search	Webhosts/Galleries
	Flickr Photobucket Picasa Web Albums Fotki FotoTime deviantART Smugmug	Facebook MySpace Bebo Hi5 Friendster	Google Images Yahoo Images Ask Images Live Images AOL Images	Freewebs TTG Galleries (Lightroom) Phoca Gallery (Joomla)

And it works also with YouTube videos ...

I hope Netvibes, will be included soon ...


NetEx RATING: 5*/5
PicLens: is fast, smooth, elegant and effective.

Exclusive: NetEx blog is the first blog offering a "Star This Post" badge for Netvibes: 4*/5

A few weeks ago I was complaining ( ;) ) that I need a Netvibes activity badge to place on my blog .

Developer Sébastien Poivre (Gizmhail) has just sent me a test version and it is working!

As what I undestand it is working just for Blogger blogs and with FireFox but that is ok for a first draft ;)

Sébastien Poivre (Gizmhail) is also the author of the Netvibes Bookmarklets.
One of them works like the badge but you need to have installed in your FireFox .

NetEx rating: 4*/5
Perfect, just what I and other millions of Bloggers and readers need.
WordPress blogs will also have their own badge... And I am sure Tariq Krim will want one on his new blog ;)

I will report here the link to the definitive url for using this badge, when Sébastien will have a proper page for it.

Tariq KRIM steps down as Netvibes'CEO and is replaced by Freddy MINI

Fresh news from TECHCRUNCH blog:

"Tariq Krim is stepping down as CEO of Netvibes to “spend less time day-to-day” at the company and work on a “new project,” he tells me. (More details on that project later). He will remain on the board of the company and as a non-executive strategic adviser. Current Netvibes COO Freddy Mini will take over the helm as CEO."

“My role was to transfer Netvibes from a personal start page into a widget platform,” says Krim. He feels that the technical foundation for that shift has been completed with the recent release Ginger, the latest version of its site. "

Well, that is a big change and probably a necessary one. But Netvibes is losing a charismatic figure.

Pierre CHAPPAZ, former Co-CEO of Netvibes and founder of Kelkoo and Wikio, an actual investor in Netvibes comments on his own blog that:

"I think it's a good decision. Freddy Mini, Chief Operating Officer of Netvibes for 2 years and based in San Fransisco, has incomparable experience: he was CEO of ZDNet Europe. and then Musicme, before agreeing to join us at Netvibes in 2006. "

"When I resigned from my position as co-CEO last year in order to concentrate my efforts on Wikio , I highlighted how the strategy of distribution and monetization at Netvibes seemed to me essential for success . With Freddy's insistence, Netvibes has in the last year taken great strides in this direction and progressed significantly, supplying a number of large media sites with a personal page service that they could take on and redistribute with their own colors. Freddy is without a shadow of a doubt the man for the job, to continue to develop the distribution, and the widget market, for which Tariq was a true visionary. "

What is strange is that the news is not coming out on any of the Netvibes' Official Blogs, Forums or Streams...

A lack of confidence in Netvibes' own captive audience ?
Shoudn't this news been given to Netvibes' users before anyone else ?
I think so!

Anyway, Thanks Tarik ! :)

Tariq Krim, Netvibes'CEO, launches his new blog giving clues on Widgets' monetization

Tariq Krim, Netvibes' CEO and founder, has just launched his own blog: http://www.tariqkrim.com.

His second post is about the Monetization of the Widget economy:

Tariq expects the market to develop from the estimated 40 mln US$ for 2008 to a much bigger figure for 2009. Tariq seems also to consider an European way to Widgets, where Netvibes could take the lead.

Let's wait for a few days before commenting all this...

If you are interested here is a Business presentation in PDF make by Netvibes beginning of April 2008.


As you can see, one of the options is to bring brands and advertising inside every possible widget while the overall homepage will be not be sponsored.

Windows 7 will be multi-touch compatible (check the demo)

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

The TechCrunch blog announced that : At the "All Things Digital" Gates and Ballmer presented the new Windows 7. This version to be released in 2010 is Multi-Touch compatible.

I like that :)

Follow the Rolland Garros French Tennis open with this Netvibes Widget: NetEx rating: updated 4*/5

Want to have the on-line results of all matches played today in Paris ? Want to read some comments ?
UPDATE: want also to check the schedule ? Want to see the the image Gallery ?

Use this Rolland Garros 2008 widget from Netvibes called Tennis Live. You can choose the Men or Women competition results board and the news channel with comments (has been added during my writing of this post :) ).

NetEx rating: UPATED 4*/5 (was 3*/5)
Simple and essential: scores, comments, schedule and gallery.
Thanks to the developers: Florent Solt and Charles Viard.

What is missing ? The weather conditions and if matches are interrupted or not (that will earn them a 5*/5 :) )

To add it to your Netvibes page, just click here:




If you want some comments and pics, but no on-line scores try this widget The French Open news widget :
You can add this widget to you Netvibes page by clicking here:




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