Netvibes Blog

Introducing Djinngo Mobile SDK

2010-08-17T15:08:32Z

Netvibes mobile partner Djinngo (see “Orange partners with Netvibes…”) is proud to introduce the Djinngo Mobile SDK to create your own widgets and advanced apps for mobile phones.

Djinngo developers from Djinngo on Vimeo.

Do you want to download SDK and development tools? It’s very easy:

Download Eclipse for free (Win/Mac/Linux)
Djinngo SDK
Find out the SDK overview document

Share your experience and meet the djinngo team on the dedicated board.

And don’t forget to follow djinngo on Twitter!

New Twitter widget update includes OAuth support

2010-08-16T16:08:41Z

We just released a new version of the Twitter widget to support OAuth. We did this because in the coming hours Twitter will no longer support the traditional method with login and password which was used until now.

The only thing that will change for you is that you’ll have to click on an “Connect” button in order to allow the widget to interact with your timeline. That’s all. Easy, isn’t it?

If you’re curious, you can read Twitter’s official announcement and if you want to have more information about OAuth I’d recommend you the following Wikipedia page. You can also check OAuth’s official website to have more information about the protocol.

Don’t hesitate to contact our support team in case you have any trouble with this migration.

New eCairn Widget: Powerful, Professional Social Media Analytics

2010-08-05T14:25:04Z

If you’re a social media professional, odds are you’d like to do more than just monitor the real-time Web. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could also listen directly to your community and analyze what influencers are saying in real-time, too?

We’ve teamed up with social media analytics leader eCairn to develop a powerful new widget that gives you access to customized analytics tools directly on your Netvibes dashboard–right next to all your RSS feeds, Twitter widgets, search results, social networks, photostreams and other apps you rely on everyday. This makes it easy to not just monitor, but also listen to your community and analyze what they’re saying live.

eCairn is the leading community and influencer engagement platform that helps marketers identify influencers, discover relevant trending topics, and maximize the effectiveness of community outreach. By focusing on the people who matter most, enterprise and agency marketers can better optimize time spent on social media. With the new eCairn widget on Netvibes, subscribers can monitor relevant conversations from key influencers, track community activities and receive live updates from their eCairn Conversation™ account.

The new eCairn widget on Netvibes is directly available under the Conversations tab in your eCairn page.
(To activate the widget, you must have an eCairn account. To learn more about eCairn, please visit: http://www.ecairn.com)

We did even create a full Dashboard featuring this widget and other analytics tools. Discover it here:
http://conversations.netvibes.com/#Trends

Interested in making your dashboards more powerful? Remember to check out our new Dashboarding Guide, featuring all of the newest and best widgets to help you better monitor, listen and analyze your brand, community and the entire real-time Web.

Netvibes is seeking a Director of Business Development for EMEA region

2010-08-05T14:25:42Z

Netvibes, the leading personalization platform for the Web, is seeking an experienced business development professional to help drive its business efforts. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success in digital media, and software deal making.

About Netvibes
Founded in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the first personalized dashboard publishing platform for the Web. For consumers, Netvibes.com is the most awarded startpage where millions of people around the world personalize and publish all aspects of their daily digital lives. For agencies and publishers, Netvibes’ universal widget technology (UWA), widget distribution services and Premium Dashboards help rapidly deliver brand observation rooms and user-personalized marketing campaigns. For companies, Netvibes Enterprise delivers secure, scalable personalized workspaces, portals and industry dashboards.

Today, Netvibes powers personalization for more than 1000 of the world’s leading brands, interactive agencies, government organizations, non-profits and enterprises–serving half a billion widgets every month. Netvibes (http://business.netvibes.com) has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.

As the Director of Business Development for Netvibes, you will play a critical role in executing sales strategies to consistently meet and exceed the company’s revenue goals.

Responsibilities

Prospect, qualify, negotiate and close deals in an aggressive timeframe.
Consistently meet and exceed sales goals, demonstrating a focused sales effort and a keen understanding of Netvibes’ business model and product offerings.
Qualify and manage inbound inquiries.
Prepare and deliver sales presentations and proposals, with exceptional quality and timeliness.
Build and maintain strong relationships within the digital media industry.
Maintain expert knowledge of Netvibes’ solutions and digital media trends and be able to convey that expertise to prospects and clients.
Manage accounts effectively in order to drive recurring revenue and upsell new business opportunities.

Who You Are
You like challenges, love to build and maintain professional business relationships and won’t accept defeat. You can juggle multiple demands on your time and work towards specific objectives. You’re looking for a vibrant work environment and aren’t shy about rolling up your sleeves and getting down to basics.

More importantly, you love the thrill of the hunt and being persistent, persuasive and professional. Making presentations to groups of people is your forte and you relish the chance to think quickly on your feet. You like to work independently, but you know that achieving success also requires a team effort.

Overall, you’ll recognize this as a tremendous opportunity to accomplish and exceed your career goals.

What You Bring to the Table

B.A./B.S. with a strong academic record.
At least 5-7 years of business development experience in digital media, or with a company that has a digital business model.
Proven sales experience with a history of professional achievement and goal attainment.
Strong contacts with brand marketers, digital agencies, PR firms and media companies.
Knack for synthesizing how technology works and the ability to explain in cohesive, ordinary terms how Netvibes meets stated client needs.
Passion for all things digital and learning about the ever-changing dynamics of digital media.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; presentation and PowerPoint skills; and interpersonal skills.
Impeccable attention to detail, ability to prioritize and a ready-for-action attitude.
Unwavering personal integrity.

Work location : Paris, France

The position reports to the VP of Business Development.

Interested candidates please submit a brief cover letter outlining your interest and qualifications and your resume by email to jobs@netvibes.com under the reference : #EMEA-Business

Let’s celebrate Summer with two brand new Netvibes themes

2010-08-05T14:26:05Z

Sun is shining on Paris at last, and it shines hard: the perfect time to introduce our brand new Summer theme, codename Natsu. As a fresh, colourful and well balanced theme, Natsu is becoming the new default theme of Netvibes. So if you want to bring sunshine to your dashboards, just pick this theme in the Settings Panel and enjoy the sight.

As an extra bonus, we’ve also added a little something that many users asked us about. Meet Blackmamba, the new dark theme. No dark green nor dark blue. Just pure black, as requested.

Let us know what you think about those new themes by leaving a comment, or tweeting @netvibes!

Facebook “Like” button now available on Netvibes

2010-06-30T16:47:16Z

We just added the Facebook “Like” button as another way to share content with your friends. When you read an article on Netvibes, click the Like button and the item will appear on your Facebook timeline, without leaving Netvibes.

The Facebook Like button is easy to find:

In widget view : click an item title to open it on the reader window, you will find the Like button below the article.
In reader view: click an item title (or the item thumbnail if you are using the mosaic mode) and scroll down the reader window, you will find the Like button below the share option.

If you want to switch the feature off, simply open your profile settings page, enter the “Third party services” section at the bottom and you’ll find the Facebook options. You can also directly use this url http://www.netvibes.com/account/facebook.

Needless to say, we hope that you will really Like this feature!

Netvibes Mobile now open for Business!

2010-08-05T14:27:36Z

Super excited to announce our Premium Dashboards are now accessible on iPad, iPhone (yes 4 as well!), iPod Touch and Android.

Get ready for non stop brand monitoring or e-Reputation management, from one device to another with real-time synchronisation of what was read and what’s left to be followed. Never miss a moment, never miss anything important.

Try this example.

Want yours? Don’t hesitate to get in touch with a Netvibes representative in your region

New Netvibes on Android and iPhone now live!

2010-08-05T14:29:14Z

As promised when we released Netvibes on iPad two weeks ago, we are super excited to offer this version for the first time on Android and update our existing iPhone version.
All 3 versions now share the same core user experience and nicely adapt to your favorite device.

Immediate benefit is a continuous experience across any devices. Start reading and monitoring from your PC or Mac, continue on your iPhone or Android while commuting and finish your day on your iPad, Netvibes will provide a continuous experience throughout your day, no matter what device you use, read/unread articles are automatically and real time synchronized.

Enjoy it now. Everything is live and ready for you at:

As a reminder, the iPad one is available at:

http://ipad.netvibes.com

Next enhancements in a couple of weeks should include the split view for the iPad and we are also working on some missing features like “mark as unread” or “display only unread items”

Let us know if you’d like to see some other features in those mobile versions.

CHANGELOG

* [Android/iPhone] NEW: adressBar is automatically hidden to offer more space for content
* [Android/iPhone/iPad] NEW: updated CSS design for login screen on iPhone/Android and iPad
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: When scrolling, touched item is no longer highlighted like a “tap” since it did slow down the scrolling
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: from an article, clicking “Back” no longer reloads the entire list of feed items
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: clicking “Back” before the end of the loading no longer displays a blank screen
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: when visiting a blog post’s source, a click on the browser’s “back” button to go back to Netvibes no longer randomly displays a blank page
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: large images inside articles are now adapted to 100% width
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: there were too many lines of content preview in the list of feed items
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: tabs or widgets with very long titles no longer overlap unread counters
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: font-size for articles has been increased by 1px
* [Android/iPhone] FIXED: UWA widgets: iframed content can now be scrolled
* [Android only] FIXED: broken scrolling/navigation on Android devices
* [iOS4 only] FIXED: conflict with HTML5 support of ‘hashchange’ native event in iOS4 is fixed
* [iPhone only] FIXED: orientation change to landscape no longer brings strange font-size adjustments

Update for our Dashboard Engine

2010-06-15T15:23:00Z

In April we changed our homepage to introduce a new Dashboard Engine helping you create easier and faster smart dashboards that automatically track all of the latest photos, videos, news, feeds, search results and Twitter conversations around your favorite topic.

Thanks to your enthusiastic feedback, we are excited to introduce today, the fastest way to monitor what matters to you: the “1-click Dashboard engine”. Basically all the features are still here but a dashboard is now waiting for you at just 1 mouse-click instead of 3. Just enter your topic and click on “Dashboard it!”

The theme can also be better managed because you can now select it after the dashboard creation so you will actually see how it fits on your real page.

And, as before, if you already have a dashboard, there’s no need to logout to find the new homepage. The Dashboard Engine can be accessed directly from the the dropdown menu “Dashboard” / “New”

Want to test Netvibes on iPad?

2010-06-03T16:26:44Z

As promised last week we have a preview of the iPad version you can now freely access. No need to leave your email address or enter a special invitation code, just grab your iPad and go to http://ipad.netvibes.com

Netvibes on iPad is synced online to Netvibes.com, meaning logging with your existing account you can access the same experience both on your desktop (at home or at work), and on your iPad. In addition, RSS articles that are read on the iPad, will also be synced and marked as read on your desktop from Netvibes.com

It’s still an alpha version because we wanted to focus first on a new common HTML5/CSS3 core which will help us bring faster a better iPhone and Android version too. So expect those to come soon. An enhanced wap version is planned as well for phones which don’t have a JavasCript support but we will work on it later.

The features still missing and which will be added in the next few weeks are:

“next” and “previous” buttons to switch quickly between articles
a left pannel to switch quickly between sources and widgets
ability to switch between, list, expanded and mosaic views
ability to share articles through Twitter, Facebook or emails

Since it’s an alpha version it still has some known issues (aka. “bugs”)

article counters may differ between your iPad and your desktop mainly because some UWAs and Premium Widgets aren’t compatible yet.
when visiting a blog post at it’s source, a click on the browser’s “back” button to go back to Netvibes can on some occasions display a blank page

Of course, we are working on them and expect to nail them down really soon. Be sure to follow our blog and twitter (@netvibes) since we’ll give you regular and timely updates about development progress through those channels

Looking forward to hear what you think about it and don’t hesitate to share your feature ideas or wishes.

Enjoy!