I miss the possibility to update my Netvibes status from my wap mobile

With the new 3G iphone coming, I wanted to test the mobile versions of Netvibes.

I know that Netvibes' strategy is not focusing on the mobile platform contrary to other competitors like webwag. Nevertheless, when I travelling, I like the idea to be able to check my Netvibes page on my mobile.

I can read feeds and twitts and check and write emails with gmail. And my web browsing is limited to wap compatible websites

But now, with the new open Activities policy by Netvibes, I can also read the feed about my netvibes' friends' Activity, my own activity and the public stream.

What I miss the most is the possibility to update my Netvibes status from my mobile. I miss it because I can update my twitter from my mobile Netvibes but not my own Netvibes activity :(

To go mobile with Netvibes, I found 3 different urls:

http://m.netvibes.com

http://wap.netvibes.com (the lightweight "basic" version)

and

http://iphone.netvibes.com

I presume that the first 2 give the same results, as it looks like that on my SonyEricsson.

The iphone is reserved for ... well the iphone.

new Buzz and Activities page now officialy available for netvibes

A new green Button: Browse all Activities is now available in your Activities Menu. That way, the buzz and other Activities that I announced are officilay made available to all users.

By clicking the Green Button you will open the new Activities page but that will replace your Netvibes page.

I would prefere to open it in a new window or new tab...

With the Activities page you will be able to follow the Buzz, the public stream and your own your Friends activities.

Personnaly, I would prefer to have a new Buzz icon in the Upper menu to check first the buzz but also the other activities, possibly in a new tab/page and /or in the side bar ;)

new Netvibes' Share option to customize and export UWA Widgets

In a very rich week full of new features (Google search box, Buzz and Public stream) Netvibes will also offering a new Share option to customize the apparence of UWA Widgets.

As the all ecosystem will be rebuilt with new features (n° of installations, platform % and weekly trends) and a better search :), a new option is already offered under the Share menu in the ecosystem bottom menu line.

With this you will be able to export the widget you like (here is mine: the NetEx blog ) with a few customizations and preferences:

• title of widget
• height
• width
• border colour
• ...

Very interesting is also the GRAB THE WIDGET CODE window: with a copy/paste you are now able to export any UWA widget and place it on any WEB page (except the ones like Blogger who prevent javascript) !

The applications are with no limits!! The widget revolution is coming ?

Thanks Netvibes!!

Have you seen the Netvibes sidebar option for your Friends' activities ?

UPDATE: I have changed capture to show that I can follow the Netvibes activities also watching another page... eh eh :) Would be interesting to have an option for showing or not the comments ...


When you are in the new Activities Dashboard, http://www.netvibes.com/public
select the Friends tab and in the menu at the bottom of the page you click on sidebar.

This will install a bookmarklet that is a special bookmark that when you will choose it in your Bookmarks tab of your Browser will open a sidebar, on any page you are looking at, showing your last friends' activities.

It is interesting if you are waiting for an important news and you have good friends :)

There is a 4 choice tab in the sidebar: friends, me, buzz and everyone so you can use it even if you do not have already many friends on Netvibes.

I do not know what is the refreshing rate of the sidebar ...

Works fine with FireFox 3 but I have not tested with IE...

I like it ! Thanks NTVB Team !

You can also see your activities and your friends'activities with RSS or ATOM Feeds, or even a special widget just by clicking on the icons also on the bottom page menu.

With new Netvibes Buzz you will see not just how many shared the news but also who. I like it!

With the new Netvibes'Buzz Dashboard that you can check here : http://www.netvibes.com/buzz there is a new nice feature.

When you click on the publishing date of every buzz, you are shown with all the users that starred that activity with their comments. Not only your friends but all Netvibes users.

If one buzz was started by you, like the one in the capture it will allow me to see who also shared it and perhaps want to add as new friends some unknown user.

That is the start of a true Netvibes Community

I like that feature.

If you click on the user name, you will see all his activity.

Google search box does not take that much space in my Netvibes

Netvibes has launched yesterday a new Google Search Box integrated in the Netvibes page.

It is a smart move to offer a new option to "new users" that will arrive from now on on the service.

For Older and more expert users, the move is at the moment seen often as an "intrusion" (just check the hot replies at the Netvibes Blog post )

Many complain of the "invasion" of the awfull tool bar and the bad visual impact and effect. For that 2 solutions:

1. just hidden the feature by clicking on your Settings, look for the Search options and select hidden.
2. but, if like me, you still want to keep it on your page because you do not need a title on your own page ;) and you like to have an option to save your searches in your Netvibes page, then go for Setings/ look for Search options and select "above title".
   This way your search box will be there near the "search in page": not a lot of space for a feature that will be improved in the near feture ;)
   

New Netvibes Activities DashBoard is "officialy" here with buzz feature

As I had announced last week, Netvibes is also launching this week the new Activities Dashboard with a Buzz feature and a Public Stream.

Check it here and no need to be registred to netvibes to view it :
http://www.netvibes.com/buzz