Netvibes, the service that lets users build customizable home page with widgets to track news feeds, social networks, and more, is now offering a premium version aimed at public relations and marketing agencies. Freddy Mini, the San Francisco company’s chief executive, says Netvibes Premium Dashboards are a natural extension of the company’s tools. The proliferation of publishers and content...
Ogilvy PR, Tribal DDB, WeissComm Group, Rumeur Publique, CRM Company Group and The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) Use Netvibes Premium Dashboards to Rapidly Publish Live Brand Rooms and Expert Knowledge Portals. San Francisco, California—December 3, 2009—Modern brand marketers are struggling to manage and keep track of the myriad of sources of real-time media, live news feeds, [...]...
On the All Points Blog, Adena Schutzberg points out that the United Stats Geological Survey (USGS) has a number of social media resources listed on one page. You’ll find: + Six Twitter Feeds + One YouTube Channel + One Flickr Feed + One Pageflakes Pagecast + One Podcast + Numerous RSS Feeds + One Podcast Facebook Page + One Netvibes Universe Source: USGS
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader . Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure your vote counts next time, be sure to vote in this week’s Lunchtime...
[UK] London-based Fingertips.net lets users create their own personalised online newspaper "from the publications they want". Or at least that's the claim. The reality is that the RSS-driven service isn't nearly as customisable as its many competitors, such as start page Netvibes or more similar aggregators like Meehive . Instead, Fingertips only enables users to pick from around 300 sources...
[Holland] This week we've got Rutger van Waveren, Founder of Spectives.com, doing an elevator pitch. Spectives.com allows people to use images to keep track of the latest news from their favorite sites. Think of Spectives as a visual RSS, Alltop, or as a kind of Netvibes for visual news. Unlike RSS where you have to scan text headlines for information, you can scan images. Great for a lot of visual...
In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets. Jolicloud , that other OS for netbooks that is completely built for people who live and work on the Web from the ground up, has in...
Similar in practice to news sites such as NetVibes and Meehive, Fingertips hope that its simpler interface will find favour with news readers worldwide.
On some of our Public Pages, like CMB and EduCMB we placed several Link Modules to show links to content on the website of our library. The Link Module then displays a Thumbnail from that page/site. A few day ago suddenly the thumbnails for links within the www.rug.nl domain were replaced with little indecent pictures, clearly not coming from this university portal. Quick contact with Netvibes , resulted...
A new comer in the world of News readers: Firefox powered by Red Panda's add-on. Red Panda turns Firefox into a contextual browser. To each page is associated a series of News from Google News, Blogs, Diggs and even Twitter, Red Panda analyzes each page on-the-fly and displays related news. Pretty cool. A powerful way to fight against overloaded pages offered by iGoogle and other NetVibes.
We recently reviewed Wasabi, Netvibes' powerful new stream reader which consolidates news feeds, blogs, Twitter and Facebook streams, email, and more in an extremely manageable interface. The site entered private beta recently and we have 200 invites for TechCrunch readers. To get an invite, visit Wasabi and enter the code "WASABITC." As we wrote earlier, Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini demonstrated...
A new comer in the world of News readers: Firefox powered by Red Panda's add-on. Red Panda turns Firefox into a contextual browser. To each page is associated a series of News from Google News, Blogs, Diggs and even Twitter, Red Panda analyzes each page on-the-fly and displays related news. Pretty cool. A powerful way to fight against overloaded pages offered by iGoogle and other NetVibes.
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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