Netvibes, original widget homepage, is morphing into something much more interesting. The next version of the service, dubbed Wasabi, is a potent stream reader which consolidates news feeds, blogs, Twitter and Facebook streams, email, and much more in an extremely manageable interface. Wasabi will become available early next week in a private beta, but you can start signing up for it now . CEO Freddy...
Netvibes Premium Dashboards Offer The Best of Both Worlds: Live Push Publishing with Complete User Control and Personalization For the first time brands and publishers can push live updates to user personalized environments, while enabling users to pick which to accept Now publishers can push live updates and new content directly into user personalized pages and dashboards, while allowing users to...
Hello Deutschland! Today we’re excited to announce our partnership with T-Online.de, Germany’s largest Web portal, to create a special personalized startpage for their millions of users. Together, we created T-Online Meine Seite, where users can create a personalized version of their favorite content feeds from T-Online.de. Check it out at: http://www.t-online.de/meine-seite With more than...
It was a few months that this Netviber Experience blog was sleeping, when, just a few days ago , was launched the new start-up of Tariq Krim , the Founder and former CEO of Netvibes : Jolicloud.com , the EasySimple cloud-based netbook Os. As I am very interested in the subject, I checked for Tariq Krim's new Team and I was not surprised to see working with him 2 former interns at Netvibes, the best...
Netvibes, a Paris-based web startup that lets users create personalized start pages, is rolling out a new feature called Talk to Me that recommends widgets to users based on their personal preferences, the latest example of the company's goal of hyper-personalizing web content . "People want to consume information the way they want, when they want and for the deliverer to be smart enough to know...
Freddy Mini, the CEO of Netvibes, was recently interviewed by Emmanuel Vivier, the CEO of Vanksen during the Marketing 2.0 Conference (co-organized by Vanksen) that took place at the ESC-EAP business school in Paris between the 30 and 31st of March. Netvibes is one of the global leaders in the creation of personalized web pages. Launched in 2005, it is also one of the great successes of the Web 2.0,...
The Brand Science Institute is organizing the Marketing 2.0 Conference in Paris and we are happy to be a sponsor of the event. The conference will take place at the ESCP-EAP University in Paris in March 30-31, 2009. Our CEO, Freddy Mini, will speak about the ROI of widget and how they fit in the...
[LeWeb 08] It is more difficult now for start ups since the subprime crash and the fact that web 2.0 services are loosing money. But some companies are doing very well, examples: Photolia is doing very well and since Freddy Mini took over Netvibes, he has increased the revenue by four in three quarters. Wikio, is a pan European portal launched 3 years ago with a team of 35 people and no offices, they...
With Open Social, Netvibes UWA, the leading universal widget standard, delivers the most efficient cross-platform widget development platform and largest collection of social widgets on the Web. (PRWeb Dec 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/netvibes/opensocial/prweb1723004.htm
Netvibes is my homepage. I just cannot help but think how amazing this software is. If anyone ever asks me which service is the best RSS reader, I would have to tell them Netvibes. Up until this point, I didn’t think the service could get any better though. I use Netvibes to track my Twitter friends, [...]
Europe's biggest annual event for the tech industry is looming once more, and this year Le Web's regular startup competition - run alongside the conference itself - has attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wide range of sectors. This year the overall organisation for the comeptition is being handled by the Europe-wide early-stage investor SeedCamp . They are (in alphabetical...
Netvibes last big news is its current success with partnerships. the big news to come in Oct 23 is that Netvibes will have Facebook Connect integration. Facebook Connect is like Live ID Auth or MySpace Data Availability API. it allows Netvibes users to interact with Friends on Facebook. but it goes beyond just that. [...]
Thanks to everyone for coming yesterday to the Facebook Developer Garage. We had the pleasure to host the event at La Cantine in Paris. Traveling through Europe with a stop in Paris yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg , founder of Facebook, took the time to answer the questions of the developers....
With the replacement of Tariq Krim by Freddy Mini as new CEO, Netvibes has given a clear sign that the almost 3 year long Start-up phase of the project is now finished. Many well informed insiders, as Pierre Chappaz (shareholder and former co-CEO of Netvibes and actual CEO of Wikio.com ), have declared : Netvibes is now entering the monetization phase. On the practical side what does it mean ? First,...
You will without doubt already know that Freddy Mini is replacing Tariq Krim as CEO of Netvibes. 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...
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