I published my London (UK) Tab in Netvibes ecosystem

Hi,

after my discussion on "How to prepare a Trip to London (Uk) with Netvibes", I published my TAB in the Netvibes Ecosystem.

You can find it here: London UK Tab for Netvibes.

Contents:
Londonist
UK Holidays
Mobissimo Travel
London Logue
Travelocity
Art Events in London this month - All In London
Kayak Search
Exhibitions in London this month - All In London
lastminute.com Entertainment
BBC News - England
Lastminute - Holidays top deals
Telegraph - Breaking news
Telegraph - Travel
BBC News - News Front Page
Lonely Planet
Museum of London Group upcoming events
Google Map
The London Symphony Orchestra News
Children and Family Events London this month - All In London
The London Philharmonic Orchestra News
Our Pick of Events in London this month - All In London
All In London News Feed - July 2007
All In London Entertainment News Feed - July 2007
London Daily Photo
Guardian Unlimited
This Is Local London Top Stories
BBC News Entertainment
Yahoo! UK Movies
Google Maps Search
UK Traffic & Travel News
London Baroque News

A tab to prepare your trip to LONDON (UK) with more than widgets, feeds and links: Weather, What to do, News, Blogs, Maps, Best deals, Traffic, Links, ...

I published it the 25th of July but it is not verified yet...

If Netvibes can not stop clones then only Content is left.

Hi,

To continue my series on Netvibes Clones, here is another Netvibes look-alike: MEVOU.
It looks like Netvibes in the version previous the last Coriander Update. But everything is there and seems to work: widgets, weather, clock . Of course the Netvibes Ecosystem is missing but the rest is there with a small feed directory and the principal applications.

As, ReadWriteWeb wrote: " The barrier for entry in getting into this hot area has never been lower than now"
So, If Netvibes can not stop clones to come to the surface the only solution for them to survive is Content.

But what surprises me is the lack of reaction from Netvibes Managers.

Let's take FRANCK MAHON , Lead Product Manager or Hubert MICHAUX, Marketing Manager we never ear from them. Only Tariq KRIM , the founder and CE0 speaks for Netvibes.
But the Content subject seems more and more confused not to speak about an Exclusive content.

Another Request for a Clone of Netvibes

Hi,

again on Netvibes Clones, I just read this offer :

"We need an exact clone of www.netvibes.com
we need all the same features and the same AJAX interface and the same everything.
We need the modules that they offer and also the netvibes ecosystem where users can add their modules to the ecosystem.
We need an exact clone in no more than 15 days delivered to us.

AGAIN WE NEED AN EXACT CLONE AND THE USER MUST HAVE CREATED SEVERAL AJAX WEBSITES.

WE WILL PAY IN FULL AFTER THE PRODUCT IS DELIVERED TO US AND WE CAN PAY EITHER THROUGH SCRIPTLANCE OR THROUGH PAYPAL.PLEASE DO NOT BID IF YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS AND FAMILIAR WITH AJAX.

THE WEBSITE DELIVERED SHOULD BE EXACTLY LIKE NETVIBES NOTHING SHOULD DIFFER AND IT SHOULD HAVE 100% OF THE SAME FETAURES AND LAYOUT AND FUNCTIONING.

WE NEED AN ADMIN PANEL FROM WHERE WE CAN CLICK ON A USERS ACCOUNT IF HE HAS SIGNED UP WITH US AND GO TO HIS NETVIBES PAGE.

ALSO WE NEED A FEATURE IN THE ADMIN PANEL FROM WHERE WE CAN EDIT THE LAYOUT.
WE NEED SUPPORT FOR AT LEAST 3 MONTHS AFTER THE WEBSITE HAS BEEN DELIVERED."

Price offered is... 100-300 $ and is an auction! Netvibers lawyers will work hard this summer...

Want a clone of Netvibes for US$399 ?

Hi,

Again reading my stats for this blog, I noticed a search on Google for : scripts netvibes clone.

And here is what I found on the ALSTRASOFT page:

"AJAX DeskTop StartPage Enterprise is our latest range of web 2.0 AJAX based application that allows you to start your very own personal start page service just like Netvibes.com, iGoogle & PageFlakes.com."

"StartPage Enterprise also features a unique "Drag and Drop" interface that allows your users to easily add or remove widgets from their pages making it truly a simple to use and fun tool for all your web users."

And the cost ? Well ... just US$399 for AJAX DeskTop StartPage Enterprise (Single license + 1 year updates)

If Netvibes has copyright or Marketing skills here is a new source of revenues.

By the way, Alstrasoft has many customers complaining: just read this Alstrasoft Nightmares page and this one...

Netvibes in interesting Web Trend Graph.

Hi,

on the Blog of Freddy Mini I found this interesting graph about WEB TRENDS.

Netvibes is marked 2.0 when Facebook, Wordpress, Wikipedia are already 2.5.

How to prepare a trip to London (UK) with Netvibes

Hi,

Let's assume I want to prepare a trip , say, to: LONDON, UK. How can Netvibes help me?
(Here is what I wrote about "Travel with Netvibes ")

If I know well Netvibes, I will do:

1) First, I select local content in SETTINGS/ LOCAL CONTENT/EUROPE/ UNITED KINGDOM
2) Then I must go to the ADD CONTENT/ FEEDS/ FEATURED FEEDS. There I have a selection of 12 Feeds on UK in general , (5 from the BBC)
3) if I go for ADD/CONTENT/FEED DIRECTORY by clicking on each of the tab I will get a few Uk feeds more spiecialized in Travel, Entertainment, Internet... But nothing on LONDON , so now I go for the Netvibes Ecosystem.

4) there I search for London, or better I choose the Tag London and I have more than 60 results.

The first interesting is the i-m-tro module by Patrice, where by choosing the city you want to travel (Londo, Paris, Ny, ...) you have a search module helping you to find your way in the public transportation systems of more 250+ cities around the world! I select London, UK.
Now to go from Waterloo station to Trafalgar square, I choose:
Waterloo (and the module proposed me 3 choices) and Trafalgar ( and the module proposed me to complete with square) I can then add the Day and the our to use the Tube. I could have checked or not the following choices: Tube, DLR, River Service , First Capital Connect,Croydon, C2C , Silverlink , Southwest Trains , Southern , Southend, ONE South Eastern Trains , First Great Western , Airport Services by train or Airport Services by bus.

This is result is:
Waterloo International Station - Trafalgar Square (Sunday 20:00)
Best routeTime about 14 minutes - 0 connection(s)
At Waterloo International Station -->Walk to -->Waterloo -->Take Northern Line (Char.C.)Direction High BarnetMill Hill EastEdgwareNorthbound
Get off at -->Charing Cross -->Walk to -->Trafalgar Square

Impressive! Looks complete but as I am not from London I needsomone to check it in the real world!

5) Then I could choose a TAB UK TRANSPORT containing a selection of UK transport news feeds. But the only interesting are Feeds from Google News and Technorati that I will modify myself to have more precise news on London.

6) Then I have feeds, a lot of them, but many are for London cities in the USA ! I select instead a few feeds on London Orchestras.

7) Then I search for TRAVEL on Netvibes Ecosystem and I have more than 130 results. I go for the Tabs and I found TRAVEL: with just 3 Widgets: Mobissimo, a travel search widget, nice and sober that gives results in the widget.; Travelocity, another travel search widget that opens an external windows with the results. I added myself another Travel search Widget: Kayak search (that opens also in external windows).

8) There was also a Google map Widget ( a few to choose from : Google Map and Search that can search sushi, hotels, pizzas, coffes shop (Well American style food...); Google map by Cristophe (simple and clear) .

9) Then with the Netvibes Search Widget I looked for "LONDON BLOGS" and I selected: the Directory of London Bloggers amazing how many you can have! My preferred are LONDONIST and LONDON LOGUE.

10) Then from the ADD CONTENT of Netvibes I added the Weather Widget, A calendar for UK Holydays, A London Daily Photos .... I add also a TRAFIC TRAVEL NEWS UK Widget,

In my new TAB : LONDON (UK) I have now 38 from Widgets and Feeds all setted on LONDON. I will publish it in the Netvibes ecosystem so that if others are interested, they will not lose my 3-4 hours of work.

Still, I am sure that something is missing.

Let me know.

WZD.com: a new competitor for Netvibes

Hi,

Reading the stats of this Blog, I was attracted by an unknown short url: WZD.com . I followed the link and there it was a new Korean Competitor to Netvibes.

I do not read Korean but I was able to change my background theme and could have registred. Instead I googled for some news and here is a short description in English from WEB2.0 Asia:

"WZD.com (pronounced Wizard.com), a Korean offering of web start page, has beta launched its new version. According to 2Z, a Korean blogger (note: link in Korean), the notable features of the new version include:

• Sharing web widgets and personal pages: Users can share the widgets and startpages they created with other users. The place where these assets can be posted and shared is called "Oz".
• Better UI and design: Unlike on other startpage services, WZD.com users can freely adjust the size of the widgets. Also widgets can be overlaid on top of other widgets, not necessarily constrained to move only up and down within the given horizontal boundaries.
• Web widget API: WZD.com announced WZDAPI, a widget-creating API that's compatible with Mac OS, Google, Netvibes, etc. "

So Technical competition on the AJAX homepage platform is increasing everyday.

Among Netvibes competitors we can point:
http://my.yahoo.com/
http://www.google.com/ig
http://my.msn.com/
http://www.live.com/
http://about.aol.com/myaol
http://my.netscape.com/
http://www.protopage.com/
http://www.pageflakes.com/
http://www.webwag.com/
...
I think is time for Netvibes to go for real good content!