Dear Netvibes Users, For Christmas, we have a gift for you: a nice theme that changes every hour. You can see a preview of the theme on its page or get it immediatly: Get the “Merry Christmas” theme The whole Netvibes team wishes you happy holidays!

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The service will be inaccessible on Monday, December 28th 2009 at 5:00 AM UTC. We plan to shutdown the service for approximately 2 hours. It will allow us to perform database operations in order to improve the service performance. Thanks for your understanding.

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Highly anticipated Netvibes Wasabi exits private beta and introduces the Web’s first and fastest 2-in-1 Smart Reader, Push Notifications, and near real-time RSS technologies Paris, France—December 9, 2009—Today at Le Web ‘09, Europe’s premier Internet conference, Netvibes (business.netvibes.com) announced the public release of Wasabi, Netvibes’ fifth generation personal dashboard publishing engine designed specifically to help people better manage all aspects of the real-time Web. Wasabi introduces a completely new way to manage the real-time Web, with an all-new Smart Reader that accelerates and delivers everything users enjoy on the Web—from widgets to Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds—as a continually flowing, constantly updated, cascading stream of personalized information. Moreover, Netvibes Wasabi also gives people an easier and faster way to publish personalized dashboards and interactive websites for free, with new visual design tools and multiple page publishing features. Netvibes Wasabi is now available at: http://www.netvibes.com “We’ve entered the real-time Web without the right tools to manage it all in one place. So we jump endlessly between our RSS reader, startpage widgets, Twitter dashboard, Facebook page, chat applications, desktop, phone and Web browser,” said Freddy Mini, CEO Netvibes. “Wasabi is the first to offer an easier and better way to view and manage the real-time Web. No clicking from link to link, no refreshing, no application switching. Just a free-flowing stream of everything that matters to you on the real-time Web.” Ever since Netvibes Wasabi entered private beta testing last month, tens of thousands of requests by users, companies and publishers have been made in hope of getting early access. Starting today, Wasabi is now publicly available to everyone for free at: http://www.netvibes.com. We are currently upgrading all users to the new version. The process will take a few days. If you can’t wait to get upgraded, you can get an instant upgrade by visiting http://wasabi.netvibes.com/:

New Features Designed For the Real-Time Web: Dual-Purpose Navigator: Netvibes Wasabi is the world’s first 2-in-1 widget startpage and feed reader, which offers multiple ways of viewing, organizing and personalizing the real-time Web. Netvibes Smart Reader: Netvibes Wasabi offers the fastest reader on the planet. Unlike other readers that just do RSS, Netvibes Smart Reader delivers everything—RSS, Twitter and Facebook updates (coming soon), widget apps, notifications, photos, podcasts, videos and more—into a virtually endless, universal stream of personalized media. New mosaic views also give people a new way to view the real-time Web, like a beautifully designed, personalized magazine. Near Real Time RSS: Netvibes Wasabi comes with a brand new feed delivery engine. Netvibes new instant update engine and full support for Pubsubhubbub and RSSCloud technologies accelerates and brings RSS into the era of the real-time Web. No more waiting or refreshing; the latest feeds are delivered to Netvibes users in near real-time. Multiple Page Publishing: Netvibes also becomes a rapid Web publishing tool. Users can choose from more than 185,000+ widgets and feeds and 1000+ themes from the Netvibes Ecosystem, and quickly build interactive, personalized websites in just minutes using Wasabi’s new visual design tools that give users complete control—without the hassle of coding. Wasabi also offers unlimited page creation, free hosting, flexible layout, multi-view widgets and HTML support. Push Publishing & Notifications: Netvibes makes it easy for publishers to send live notifications, widget and content updates, and design changes to users with Netvibes Premium Dashboards, while giving users the power to choose which updates they like most. Drag-and-Follow Widgets: Facebook, Twitter and MySpace widgets make it easy for users to follow new topics as they appear by simply dragging any hashtag or username out to automatically create a new widget to track that topic or conversation.

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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, user generated content and comments on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more that comprise the voice of their brand. Today, Netvibes (business.netvibes.com), the personal dashboard publishing platform for the Web, announced that it has partnered with top global marketing and pr agencies and industry associations to deploy real-time brand monitoring dashboards and expert industry knowledge portals using the latest version of Netvibes Premium Dashboards–which features Wasabi, Netvibes’ 5th generation personalization publishing engine. Now marketers have a way to quickly build personalized brand dashboards to readily manage large, real-time media ecosystems around brands, clients and industries. Already more than 1,500 brands, enterprises and media publishers rely on Netvibes’ widget and dashboard publishing technologies, including AT&T, Nestle, BMW, Nissan, Samsung, T-Online, Fast Company, The Financial Times and Pages Jaunes—with more than half a billion widgets served to millions of consumers around the globe every month. Now top interactive agencies and industry associations–including Ogilvy PR, Tribal DDB, WeissComm Group, Rumeur Publique, CRM Company Group and The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF)—are publishing their own personalized brand monitoring dashboards and expert knowledge portals using the latest edition of Netvibes Premium Dashboards to help clients and brand marketers better manage the real-time Web. After the successful launch of numerous high-profile projects in 2009–including brand dashboards for Fortune 500 and major pharmaceutical clients—these top agencies and associations are unanimously speaking out about the benefits of dashboard publishing for brand marketers in the era of the real-time Web: “We used Netvibes Premium Dashboards to create The Daily Influence, a personalized industry knowledge portal that’s full of feeds from media, social media and trending services. We did this for our own staff and it quickly caught on with clients and other marketing and communications professionals,” said John Bell, Managing Director, 360 Digital Influence at Ogilvy. “Building a large-scale media portal with this level of interactivity and content is usually a big deal. The whole widgetized approach to Netvibes, made it super-simple. It’s really versatile too. We also just added a ‘Listening Post – lite’ feature making it easy for brand marketers to monitor for their brand in CGM.” “Netvibes Premium Dashboards are the perfect solution for any reputation manager who wants to keep a live snapshot of the entire online voice of a brand–from literally hundreds of different places at once. With Netvibes, we can share our expertise with clients by publishing and curating our own brand monitoring dashboards, ensuring they are always close to the heart of modern consumers,” said Christophe Ginisty, CEO and founder, Rumeur Publique, one of the top communications agencies in France. “We’ve been working with the University of British Columbia International Student Recruitment to innovate ways to attract students to the university from around the globe. ConnectionsForLife is an online experience that links prospective students to current students, faculty, alumni and ground-breaking ideas,” said Amber Bezahler, Managing Director, Tribal DDB, a top ten global interactive agency. “This is seamlessly facilitated by Netvibes Premium Dashboards which made it a snap for us to surface everything UBC online (news feeds to Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and more) within a social media dashboard. Best yet, the personalization features invite students and alumni to make the page their own, helping us achieve our goal of building an engaged community.” “Our mission is to help spread and share knowledge across the advertising industry. The problem isn’t the lack of information, but rather the opposite–there are too many news sites and feeds for advertising professionals to absorb everyday. Our members and industry need relevancy,” said Steve Rappaport, Knowledge Solutions Director, The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF). “With Netvibes Premium Dashboards, we created Morning Coffee as the go-to knowledge portal for the advertising industry, filled with all the best feeds hand picked by experts at The ARF. But the best part is knowing that our audience can go further when they wish, using Netvibes powerful user personalization features.”

“We believe that customers should invest in actionable insights that build brand value, which is why it is key to provide news direct to one’s desktop with minimal time or financial investment to free up these valuable resources,” said Bob Pearson, Chief Technology & Media Officer, WeissComm Group. “Netvibes Premium Dashboards enable our clients to review the latest news about their brand in real-time. Efficiency and speed matter and Netvibes delivers.” “We advise Netvibes Premium Dashboards for monitoring what is going on the Web for our clients. Not only a brand manages in real time its e-reputation but it keeps up with its customers, listening to conversations on Twitter and Facebook. Netvibes is secure and customizable at will, and Dashboards are easy to share with coworkers. In our view, Netvibes Premium Dashboards is the first step for implementing a real social marketing strategy,” Pascal Josselin CEO and Founder, CRM Company Group, a leading French communications strategy firm. The Dashboard Publishing Solution Designed for Brand Marketers Netvibes Premium Dashboards feature a built-in content library of more than 185,000 widgets and fully licensed content feeds, real-time push notification, powerful visual layout tools and an award-winning drag-and-drop interface that make it easy to build fully branded real-time media dashboards without the time or cost of traditional development. Premium Dashboards are fully hosted, proven to scale to millions of users and easy to embed seamlessly within any domain. Premium Dashboards can be used to create interactive brand rooms, real-time brand conversation aggregators, industry knowledge portals and live media monitoring dashboards for clients, marketing teams or public audiences. Last week, Netvibes’ highly anticipated 5th generation personalization publishing engine, codenamed “Wasabi”, entered private beta testing. Already earning early media acclaim, Wasabi offers the industry’s fastest smart feed reader and first 2-in-1 widget startpage/reader dashboard, integrated push publishing tools and the next-generation real-time technologies that accelerate RSS content delivery and commenting. Wasabi technology gives Netvibes Premium Dashboards an unprecedented level of live monitoring capabilities spanning the entire Internet by offering both widget and stream views for all content. To learn more about Netvibes Wasabi, visit: http://wasabi.netvibes.com.

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We just announced a milestone partnership with Sage to quickly integrate Netvibes personal dashboard technology into their next ERP X3 release by Q1 2010. Sage is one of the world’s largest business software providers for small and mid-sized businesses, so we’re very excited to be able to work together to bring Netvibes to so many, so soon. As many of you are well aware, the modern workday is getting faster and more complex. People working at companies of all sizes need to juggle a variety of business apps, industry feeds, real-time client and competitor news–as well as their favorite personal media, social networks, widget and web apps. With our latest Netvibes Wasabi release (you can sign up for our private beta here) we eliminated the back and forth window switching and refreshing many people do between their widget startpages, feed readers and real-time web apps. Now with Sage, we hope to help make the workday easier by bringing enterprise tools and your personal interests together on a single, personalized workplace dashboard. In short, we want to make your workday a little bit more like Netvibes—quick, easy to manage, and 100% personalized by you. This vision is becoming a reality as we speak: We’ve already engaged in the process of joint development to build these new applications together and starting today, Sage will begin offering Netvibes Premium Dashboards and Netvibes for Enterprise to their customers worldwide. Furthermore, we believe this partnership will greatly advance the Enterprise 2.0 movement by combining the best business software (Sage ERP X3) with the best Web 2.0 technologies and personal environment (Netvibes) and by bringing the best of these two worlds together as one. Freddy Mini, CEO

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As you may have noticed, we just updated the Twitter widget. This time, we went for incremental improvements to make your daily use of twitter more enjoyable.

Here’s a short list of what’s new:

Global redesign

the header now matches the facebook widget tweets are displayed as bubbles your tweets are emphasized with by putting your avatar on the opposite side the widget is globally more compact

Conversations: you can now see which tweets a reply is referring to. Simply click on “in reply to username” to expand the conversation.

Real names: usernames can now be replaced by the real names of your contacts Message soft limit: messages are no longer truncated when reaching the 140 characters limit. The counter will just show that your message is too long so you can shorten it by yourself

We also fixed some of the bugs you reported to us and made the widget refresh more often, among other things. Let us know what you think by sending us an e-mail or by sending a message to @netvibes!

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Free weather widgets let you share your status and even figure out what to wear Nearly everyone on Netvibes knows about our Weather Widget (it’s been installed nearly 30M times), but did you know it can do more than just tell you about the weather in your city?

Weather Widget Dashboard You can install multiple Weather Widgets on a separate tab to create a full weather dashboard, so you can see the weather of all your friends and family around the world. (Hey Uncle Joe, I hear it’s raining in Oslo.) Share Your Weather Weather Widgets can also be installed on your public Netvibes page so your friends can see what it’s like where you’re living. Also, there are many other cool, free weather widgets that do way more than just tell you the weather. Some even discuss how weather affects our society or suggest what we should wear before heading outside. Here are a few worth checking out: StyleCaster Daily Looks

Need some ideas on what to wear today? StyleCaster’s weather widget tells you the temperature and what outfit to wear. Get this widget here: http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/309651/stylecaster-daily-looks Weather Brains Podcast

A weekly podcast for people that love weather. They discuss the science behind weather events, how it affects how we live and the latest weather technology. Get this widget here: http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/5172/weather-brains aarWorld 3D Globe

An interactive, 3D globe. This weather widget lets you spin a virtual globe and see the time and weather anywhere in the world. Get this widget here: http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/205115/aarworld-3d-globe

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Art & Travel - If you like photography, here’s an interesting photo gallery, to discover new pics, right from your page : the Art limited widget. It’s a community of photographers  wanting to share their best pics, with everyday  new creative, personal and high quality work to discover. Then have a look at Tweetphoto’s best pics, it’s an instant photo sharing platform! It’s never too late to book holidays!! Check out the Booking widget, you’ll surely find some interresting travel promotions, so install it quickly! News – Arsenal supporters now have a dedicated widget to follow their favourite football team! On Arsenal news follow the team’s latest news, check out it’s scores and discover more about the players from behing the scene. Treehugger will help you to find some green ideas to lead a more eco-friendly life! Finally on Yougamers read about gaming news, game and consoles reviews.

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News

Fox news Wall street Journal – blogs Time.com

Business & Finance

Investors.com Sanebull live portfolio Zen habits

Sport

The Rotofeed Precisesports Yahoo NFL widget

Tv, movies & music

Hollywood.com Starpulse celebrity news LA Times entertainment

Tools & technology

Internetnews.com CyberNet Technology review

Fun & games

Rainbow wix vegas 2 Commando Prince of Persia

Lifestyle

Due date countdown Center’d Pygmy Vortex

Shopping

Uncrate Dumb little man Think geek

Travel

Cheap o air Global Hotel review Toronto all airports deals

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Sciences & Lifestyle - If you’re keen on Sciences, check out the Innovative Sciences observer ! From Nanotechnologies, to biology or maths, be aware of all new scientific discoveries. Your finances are a big mess? and you don’t like to remember what a bank account is? Find some tips on I will teach you to be rich ! It’s the place, to get some advice and find help dealing with your money! For general lifestyle tips, check out : Basic instructions! If you’ve always wondered how to build an original story, resist a psych-out or set and achieve a long time goal well, here are all your answers !

Music & Fashion – You love listening to Indie rock ?! Here’s a widget for you : Comfortcomes ! Discover new artists, find concerts dates and read some album reviews. What a program! Summer is the right time for a new hairstyle! But where to find ideas ?!! Check out Sienna Miller’s latest haircut on Instyle and inspire yourself from celebs! We love fashion, and we prefer it Snappy!! If you’re like us, then Snappy fashion blog is the trendy spot!

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News – Here’s a special widget for canadian netvibers : Google Canada news. It regroups canadian, world, business and health news all in one widget! This week end starts the International Athletics world championships in Berlin! For this occasion, install the : IAAF.org widget and follow the competitions right from your Netvibes page!

Food & lifestyle - You always wanted to learn how to make a nice Gaspaccio, or greek salad ? Check out CHOW and change the way you eat! There are many exciting recipes and advices to try and much to learn about food. Each end of month  you’re scared of looking at your bank account & fridge? Good news, here are some solutions for you on Wise bread. Discover many tips and advices to lead the life you want, with little budget! Here’s another great widget to install that could help you living the life you dream of : The Art of non conformity. It’s full of tips to live, work and travel with unconventional ideas. To finish, if you haven’t got the chance to travel this summer, check out this travel blog : Stuck in customs! It has amazing pictures and it’s so relaxing to look at….

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