Most employees report spending too much time gathering manual reports from different systems and departments, without being able to find what they need when they need it. Today, we introduced a new technology called MisoData that makes it easy to instantly compare any internal data or KPI–alongside external social trends–just by dragging and dropping.

“MisoData begins where Excel ends. Now you can see all your reports on one dashboard, watch every chart update automatically, and drag-and-compare anything. You can literally see how your Sales correlate to your Social Media campaign, Supply Chain and Engineering Tickets,” said Freddy Mini, CEO Netvibes. “The magic of MisoData is that anyone can do it, even on an iPad. No IT, business analytics or database knowledge necessary. No more emailing Excel reports back and forth.”

• Chart anything in just 3 clicks: Pick any Excel spreadsheet or CSV report from virtually any enterprise system or database. MisoData will chart all your reports beautifully on one dashboard–complete with forecasts, linear regression and average curves–without the need for IT involvement or custom data connectors.
• Grow automatically: Watch last week’s estimates get replaced by this week’s actual numbers. MisoData syncs all your chart data automatically, so you’ll never need to run the same report each week. Instead of emailing Excel files back and forth, your team can simply check their dashboard from their iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry or desktop browser.
• Drag-and-Compare everything: Drag any chart onto any chart for instant comparisons and correlations. Now you can instantly understand how different internal KPIs correlate with each other and even external social trends, competitive intelligence or regulatory affairs. No complex queries or business analytics–simply drag-and-compare.

Imagine dragging and comparing your Sales with Inventory with Social Reputation on an iPad in seconds. Or comparing historical Consumer Research data with real-time Competitive Intelligence or more than 250,000 newsfeeds (also built-in).

Since dashboards are always refreshed and up-to-date, users never have to run manual reports again. Not only does this save significant time, but it also reduces external risk by making it easy for any user to correlate internal KPIs versus market trends, competitors or regulations in just a click or swipe of a finger.

Now with MisoData, any Netvibes enterprise, agency or premium user can instantly chart, monitor and compare any data, spending less time reporting and more time innovating.

Want to know more?

• Read the full press release here
• Read our MisoData FAQ

Manually sorting through the huge amount of feeds and data you need to process every day can be a tedious task. What if your dashboard could automatically sort every incoming item and categorize it into groups and hierarchies for you? Well… now it can. Automatic Categorization is new advanced customization option for Netvibes Premium, Agency and Enterprise users.

Netvibes can automatically categorize articles, tweets and posts for you, based on hierarchies and groups you define. It’s a great way to automatically organize your dashboard results without the need for complex filters or long queries.

Here is an example:
Let’s say you want to monitor all the latest conversations around feed readers. It would be cumbersome to run a complex search query that includes all of the different reader products. Instead, you can now create an automatic category called “Reader”, which contains a list of keywords that belong to that category (ie. “Netvibes”, “Feedly”, “My Yahoo”, “Bloglines”, “Google Reader”, etc.).

Once this “Reader” category is set up, Netvibes will automatically populate it with any article, tweet or post that contains those keywords. With this new category, you can create a new SmartFilter to display all the articles from that category in an App. Or you can create new social analytics on all the keywords in that new category. Or a new alert to track all the different companies in this new category for you.

Instead of having to rewrite complex searches over and over, you can simply use your new category. Need more? Simply create a new category. For instance, if you also want to monitor every news related to Google in general, you could create a “Google” category. And items related to Google Reader will be automatically assigned to both categories, “Reader” and “Google”. All the relevant info in all the relevant boxes.

The best part is if you want to make a change, such as removing “Google Reader” from the list since it is being shut down next month, you can simply edit your category and ALL your apps that rely on this category will be updated accordingly.

If you want to enable this new custom feature for your Netvibes Premium, Agency or Enterprise account and define semantic fields specific to your enterprise, simply contact your Netvibes account manager. (Or signup here for a free one-on-one demo.)

One of the most requested features from our community was the ability to share your dashboard and content to more services. Until now, you could share content via Twitter, Facebook, Email or to another dashboard… but more is better. And we agree.

Introducing our newly redesigned sharing features:

• 20+ Ways to Share: Built-in options to share to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Reddit, Linkedin, Viadeo, Pocket, Evernote, Save as PDF, Bit.ly, Delicious, Buffer, Yammer, Instapaper, Flipboard, Readability (Read Now), Readability (Read Later), StumbleUpon, HootSuite, Blogger, Printer Friendly, SEND to READER, Email, and Google Translate
• Custom Sharing: Easily add a Custom Share option for most other services. (See below.)
• Share from Any Device: Newly redesigned user experience works flawlessly on all your devices (desktop, laptop, tablets).
• Share Anything: Gather all your sources of information and data on one dashboard and broadcast it to all your favorite services. Share news feeds, apps or even full tabs!

Got a favorite service that’s not listed? Using our Custom Share option, you can share to most other services. Find the URL to share something to your service (from a Share button or bookmarklet) and simply replace the title and URL with {title} and {url}.

Here are some examples:

Name: Custom WordPress
URL: http://www.<yourWordpressDomainName>.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=${url}&t=${title}&s=${source}&v=2

Name= App.net
URL: https://alpha.app.net/intent/post?text=${title}+${url}

Name: Pinterest
URL : http://pinterest.com/pin/find/?url=${url}

Name: Add to Any
URL: http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=${url}&linkname=${title}

Name: Share this
URL: http://addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&url=${url}&title=${title}

Name: Google Bookmarks
URL: http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=${url}&title=${title}

Name: Remember the Milk
URL: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/ext/addtask.rtm?t=${title}-${url}

It’s actually pretty easy to add almost any service this way. Try it now on your dashboard. As usual, feel free to drop us line or share your own Custom Shares in the comments below!

As we explained in a previous post (Important Update: Twitter 1.1 API and your Netvibes account), the new Twitter API introduces changes and new limitations to the way our Social Search App interacts with the service.

The good news is that we have already taken the initiative to update our Social Search App (and all our Social Analytics) so that it will automatically be upgraded for a smooth transition.

However the new API requires that from today on, you link your Netvibes and Twitter accounts if you want to be able to search (Basic & Premium) and gather data on Twitter (Premium). Click here to do this now, for a seamless transition.

Once authenticated with Twitter, you can add as many Twitter widgets as you want, from as many account as you want. But keep in mind that the API limit will be applied to the linked Twitter account, regardless of other Twitter widgets/accounts on the Dashboard. The good news is: to avoid reaching that limit too soon, Netvibes will share popular Twitter queries throughout all users, reducing requests to the Twitter API.

The even better news is that the new Twitter 1.1 API will enable Netvibes to provide even more social analytics features, such as improved demographics, for our users. Again, since this update is from Twitter, we have no control over it, but we have done everything we can to ensure you have a seamless transition. All you need to do is link your account.

What happens if you don’t link your Twitter account or if you don’t have a Twitter account? You won’t be able to perform any Twitter search and all existing searches will stop working. You must have a Twitter account to do so. Get one here.

And if you need more Twitter searches than what the API allows, that’s not a problem. We can help. Please contact your sales representative for information on how to perform additional Twitter searches.

To ensure an ever better service, we’re going to perform large database operations and do some maintenance work on our servers.

This maintenance is scheduled for Tuesday 05/28 morning (5:30am CET) and should not exceed 4 hours. Analytics for Netvibes Premium will not be available during that period (though data will still be collected).

Thanks for your understanding.

IF YOU’RE USING THE TWITTER APP ON YOUR NETVIBES BASIC DASHBOARD, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY.

Starting Monday, May 6, due to Twitter’s new API policy, you’ll need to have a Twitter account linked to Netvibes Basic to continue using Twitter apps and searches from your dashboard. Twitter will require user authentication and rate-limiting, which means not just Netvibes, but all 3rd party Twitter services, will be affected.

The good news is Netvibes will update all our social apps to work seamlessly with the new Twitter API. Next Monday, we are going to roll out a product upgrade.

In the meantime, old Twitter API keys have been revoked today in preparation for this update. This will result in all Twitter apps displaying an “unknown error” message, which means you’re going to have to re-install your current Twitter app (from the Add Content / Essentials menu) to make sure it works flawlessly with the new API. This will not affect any Social Search app you’re currently using, no data will be lost.

In summary: if you’re a Netvibes Basic user, re-install your Twitter app today to avoid any issues with the new API on Monday.

A lot of developers are using our UWA (Universal Web App API) to build simple web widgets. But did you know that the core of Netvibes.com–dashboards and apps–is now coded using UWA2, our latest version?

Since 2007, UWA has pioneered the concept of “write once, deploy everywhere” enabling developers to create simple universal web widgets that work on all browsers and desktops. Today, however, most people own and use multiple devices (laptop, smartphone, tablet), with different screen sizes and operating systems — and they expect robust, native app experiences across each device.

Enter the new UWA2. We’ve enhanced UWA2 internally to help our developers code the next generation of Netvibes.com to ensure that all our dashboards and apps work seamlessly across all devices and screensizes, and enable more robust app features (ie. touch, charting, analytics, security and much more). We also did it to save an enormous amount of time coding and updating different native apps across a growing number of devices and display sizes.

The end result? Now your dashboard and apps maintain one consistent User Experience (UX) across all your devices and display sizes — while still retaining crucial, native UI elements such as touch, navigation and preferences. We also used UWA2 to create all the Social Analytics apps in Netvibes Premium and complex apps that integrate secure enterprise systems for our clients–proving that universal apps are now also fully featured, robust apps. Today, many Fortune 500 companies, brands and agencies rely on UWA2 for multi-system app deployment and have reported time/cost savings of up to 70% vs. coding for and maintaining multiple platforms.

Now with UWA2, Code Once and Get:

• Unified UX Across All Devices and Display Sizes – Now universal apps are fully optimized for virtually all screen sizes and devices (including iPads and Android tablets of all sizes, iOS/Android/Blackberry smartphones of all sizes, laptops, etc,). This means you can ensure a consistent, homogeneous UX across all devices and display sizes, while still retaining important native UI elements (such as touch interfaces and preference menus).
• Automatic Updates Everywhere – In-app updates can be pushed to all users across all devices automatically, without the need for users to reinstall or hunt for manual updates.
• Slimmer, Faster, More Robust apps – Universal apps are optimized to be even smaller and faster across different devices/screen sizes, while adding even more features–such as Highcharts, native menus, touch interfaces and more.

At last, a fully synced environment for your tablet, smartphone and computer! No compromises. At Netvibes, we couldn’t imagine letting one device not sync with the other or forcing you to have a different app experience on each sized screen. The new UWA2 is the only solution that let’s you code once and build apps that users can enjoy synchronously and seamlessly on all their current and future devices. This means you can spend more time creating the next killer feature on your app and/or produce more apps, instead of duplicating effort to support multiple platforms.

Want to learn more? Contact us for documentation and access to get started. Be sure to include some examples of what you’ve built before so we know you’re cool and not a spam robot! You can also take a look at our online UWA2 documentation here.

There are always new social tools showing up. But they are made by others. But what if you could design your own? Made exclusively by your agency.

For years Netvibes has powered custom social dashboards and analytics for top agencies and global brands. Today, at The Advertising Research Foundation re:think and Social Media World Forum conferences in NYC and London, we announced the launch of Netvibes for your Agency: official workshops and packages to help agencies quickly design their own proprietary social tools for valued clients.

Netvibes for your Agency will be featured on Netvibes.com for the next few weeks (as always, you can still Sign In or Try Netvibes Basic at the top). Agencies can sign up for free workshops on how to design, customize and resell their own social tools using Netvibes. Netvibes for your Agency also offers agencies an exclusive quick start package for teams of five, including training and development of your first dashboard.

Your client. Your relationship. Your Agency’s social dashboard. Everything is customized by your agency. The look and feel, and workflow. The corpus and analytics. The reports and alerts. It’s the ultimate client engagement tool.

For example: If you work in the sneaker industry, why would you want to analyze cat food? But this is exactly what most “black box” social tools do today, blindly searching the entire web (read: boiling the ocean). That’s why we offer an Open Corpus so you can choose exactly which feeds and influencers matter for smarter, noise-free results. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what your agency can offer exclusively to clients.

Want to learn more? Read the full press release or sign up for a free agency workshop.

Note for Basic users: We are in the process of redesigning our homepage at Netvibes.com to make it easier for everyone to find which Netvibes is right for them. So please look forward to improved navigation and a page just for you over the next few weeks. Of course, if you are already logged in, you will always be sent directly to your dashboard for instant access.

#SMWF is the leading social media & digital marketing event that connects marketers, digital brand managers, agencies and social tools and platforms. It’s a showcase of best practice in social media marketing strategies.

It will take place in London, between the 18th and 19th of March, and for those of you not fortunate enough to attend it in person, we’ve set up a brand new Live Dashboard to cover all aspects of the event in one single place:

• social networks monitoring (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
• blogs
• movies & pictures
• agenda
• exhibitors and sponsors profiles
• and more…

Like with every Live Dashboard, Netvibes will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards, like SmartFilters and Analytics. With our latest apps (like Social Search), easily keep up with all the news and announcements and don’t miss a single bit of info about SMWF. Follow the event from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch.

As one of the sponsors for this event, Netvibes will of course be attending. So if you’re in the area, pay us a visit at booth #11 in the Exhibitors area. Stefan Lechère, our VP Business Development, will be participating in a panel about Social Brand Management on the 19th of March at 2.00 PM, so feel free to drop by.

In the meantime (or if you can’t make it to London), check out the SMWF Live Dashboard now!

As you may have heard, Google has decided to shut down its Reader service on July the 1st. Good news: you don’t need to look for an alternative, Netvibes is the perfect home for all your RSS feeds, and more. Judging by the increase in traffic since the announcement,  it’s safe to say that most of you have already make the move, and we’re grateful for that. And if you haven’t done it yet, here’s how you can easily join our community.

If you’re coming from Google Reader, there’s an easy way to import all your existing feeds into Netvibes (updated thanks to a blog post at SaveiGoogle.org):

• Go to Google Takeout
• Click “Create Archive” then “Download” to export your subscriptions as a ZIP file
• Unzip the saved file on your desktop
• Go to Netvibes, click on “Add content”, “Add a feed” then “OPML: Import” and select the “subscriptions.xml” file you just unzipped
• Click on “Import”

Voila! All your RSS feeds from your Google Reader are now in your Netvibes page. Once this simple transition is complete, you can easily view your feeds in our built-in SmartReader which has the added benefit of automatically refreshing in real-time as a flowing river of news.

Click here to create your free account. Welcome to Netvibes, enjoy your new home!

Have a question? Need help? Head to our FAQ for assistance.

PS: We might experience a slow down in the forthcoming days. Bear with us as we work hard to handle this huge amount of new trafic.

If you’re a fan of music, indie films and emerging technologies, Austin will definitely be the place to be in the forthcoming days. Between March 8 and 17, the capital of Texas will hold the famous South by Southwest (SXSW) conferences & festival. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW is the premier destination for discovery.

Can’t make it to Austin? Not a problem: we’ve got you covered. To make sure you won’t miss a thing, we’ve set up a comprehensive Live Dashboard gathering all the relevant info in one single place, including:

• social networks monitoring (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
• blogs
• movies & pictures
• agenda
• exhibitors and sponsors profiles
• and more…

Like with every Live Dashboard, Netvibes will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards, like SmartFilters and Analytics. With our latest apps (like Social Search), easily keep up with all the news and announcements and don’t miss a single bit of info about SXSW. Follow the event from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch.

Also featured on the Live Dashboard, you will find Dassault Systèmes’ contribution to SXSW through the Giza3D project demonstrating jointly with Harvard University how 3D experiences are pushing their way into the classroom as a new kind of learning medium. If you will be attending SXSW, here is more details about the time and venue.

Dassault Systèmes will also cover SXSWi (Interactive), follow @Dassault3DS and upcoming blog posts on the 3D Perspectives blog for more! And of course, follow @netvibes on Twitter too!

Check out the SXSW Live Dashboard now! http://sxsw.netvibesbusiness.com/

One of the most praised features of Netvibes Premium is “Push Publishing”. Imagine being able to propagate live content to your teams or clients, through your dashboard in custom tabs, Web apps, automated alerts or emails.

Let’s take a real life example: you work at an agency specialized in the wine industry and you use Netvibes Premium Dashboards to gather information and spread it across your social media team. While researching for your client, you stumble upon a new blog about E & J Gallo Winery, a hot new Napa valley competitor, so you decide to track and analyze it in a new tab on your Master Dashboard. You can then push it to the rest of your team’s individual dashboards through Push Publishing. Easy, right? And you can later update it with new sources or remove sources that are not relevant anymore, etc.

And your users can still decide which information they want to keep on their dashboard. You might have a team working only on French wines, so anything about Californian wineries will be of little use to them and they can choose to discard that information (i.e. delete the apps or tab about “Californian wineries”) and any subsequent update.

That’s the magic behind Push Publishing! It’s a great way to share relevant content and analysis with your co-workers, teams or clients and let them decide whether they want to use it or not.

New in the latest Push Publishing update:

• Layout syncing: App & tab positions are now synced between the Master and User dashboards
• Simplified update process: Every change to the Master Dashboard is now automatically applied to User Dashboards, no need for manual publishing
• Switch to a completely new dashboard: If the Master Dashboard is completely replaced (i.e. when redesigning from scratch), the user can choose to switch to the new version, which will then completely erase & replace his/her current copy
• Private sandbox: Allows publishers to publish a specific dashboard for a specific period of time or event, or to work on a separate draft in the background before pushing it to the users
• Global performance improvements and minor bug fixes

Wanna give it a test drive? Schedule a private tour and receive a free 14-day trial. See Push Publishing and all other great Premium features (including Analytics, SmartTagging, Alerts) in action, plus live dashboard examples on Nike, Kraft, Groupon and GM.

…there’s no need to search anymore. You’ll already know it. This is something that will change the world of search forever.

In our ongoing quest to help you dashboard, monitor and analyze everything, we started to rethink search and what search means on the real-time Web. The traditional workflow is to type in a keyword to a search engine and then manually sort through an endless stack of search result pages. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to automatically track search results as a real-time search stream instead?

Our new search apps + Netvibes Premium help you do just that. Our new search apps now transform search into search streams: live results and updates delivered to you. Imagine having multiple search apps, in multiple languages, each tracking a different topic for you—live search streams you can mark read/unread in our SmartReader just like any feed—for free! And it works perfectly with our multiple feeds views, expanded and mosaic views included.

And if you’re a Netvibes Premium user, imagine applying real-time Analysis on each of your search streams—and even comparing and charting them over time! Search is now transformed from an endless, unfathomable stack of search result pages into a stream of Analysis and useable insights.

What’s new – Best search stream apps, featuring the best search engines

• NewsSearch (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Exalead)
• ImagesSearch (Flickr, PicasaWeb, Photobucket, Instagram)
• VideoSearch (YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Vimeo)
• BlogSearch (Google Blog, Twingly, WordPress)
• ShoppingSearch (Ebay, Amazon)

Note: You can find all of these on your dashboard under Add Content >> Essential Widgets

• Every search result can now be flagged as read/unread or SmartTagged just like any feed.
• Search streams can be automatically Analyzed for real-time stream analysis.
• Better performance: Faster and smarter global search results.
• Improved video embedding and playback of search results.

Now Netvibes goes beyond search results, transforming search into a continuously updated real-time river of results that you can Analyze with Netvibes Premium—powered by the best search engines.

How awesome is that? Can’t wait to try it out? Well, login to your dashboard right now and give it a try!

Got comments, remarks or suggestions? As usual, drop them in the comments below.

The Social Media Strategies Summit has been the place to be for social marketers over the past two years: over three full days, providing an interactive learning environment, keynote talks from influential names in social media marketing, more than 40 learning sessions, nine workshops on varying topics and much more!

It will take place in Las Vegas between the 5th and 7th of February. And for those of you not fortunate enough to attend the event, Netvibes will offer extensive coverage through a dedicated Live Dashboard.

Need to get all the relevant info in one single place? Look no further, head right now to http://smssummit.netvibesbusiness.com and take advantage of all the comprehensive information we’ve gathered for you on the summit, including:

• social networks monitoring (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
• blogs
• pictures
• agenda
• exhibitors and sponsors profiles
• and more…

And like with every Live Dashboard, Netvibes will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards, like SmartFilters and Analytics. With our latest apps (like Social Search), easily keep up with all the news and announcements and don’t miss a single bit of info about SMS Summit 2013. Follow the event from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch.

Check it out now! http://smssummit.netvibesbusiness.com

The entire Netvibes team would like to wish you a happy New Year. Thank you for your love & support!

Going on our sixth year (yes, time flies), we joined Dassault Systèmes in February and have been upgrading our Dashboards with a lot of new features and improvements, accelerating our innovation in Dashboard Intelligence.

So what happened in 2012? A lot actually…

Dashboards

• New Netvibes for iPad
• New Tab Navigator
• Progressive Loading
• Improved Top Bar
• Tab Wizard
• Netvibes in Japanese

Apps

• New Ecosystem
• Social Search App
• Facebook Search & Compare

Premium Features & Analytics

• Social pack improvements
• New visual reporting & exporting for Premium
• Active Blacklisting for Premium
• New Facebook App for Premium

What’s up next for 2013?

We have many great new things planned for 2013 and will be increasing our R&D team to make even more cool features for our users, as well as improving the existing ones. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook for all the latest news and new features!

What’s in your wishlist for 2013? Let us know.

Got a great idea for a new feature? Something you’re dying to see? Drop a comment below and let us know!

As we do every year, we’ll be covering the annual CES (Consumer Electronics Show) through one of our now famous Live Dashboards. The CES is one of the biggest gathering about technology and this year, it will take place between the 8th and 11th of January in Las Vegas.

To make sure you won’t miss a thing, Netvibes is setting up a new Live Dashboard dedicated to the event:

• news watch through the main information sites
• events schedule
• videos (live, media coverage, etc.)
• mentions on various social networks
• exhibitors panel
• and many other tools…

And like with every Live Dashboard, we will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards: SmartTagging (to tag feelings to articles), Advanced Research in Real-Time (to cross-search different sources inside the Dashboard) and Bookmarklet (to easily add content from other sites).

This is also your chance to get a sneak peak at our powerful analytics tools through a special tab that will monitor the Who, the What, the How and the When during the event.

If you want to follow the 2013 CES without flying to Las Vegas, the best way to do it is to log on to ces2013.netvibesbusiness.com and enjoy every minute of this big event from your armchair, in your office or on your mobile phone.

Enjoy!

LeWeb, the first European event focused on the Internet and new technologies, will be held in Paris between the 4th and 6th of December. Netvibes will take part in the event by offering extensive coverage through a dedicated Live Dashboard.

Want to get all the relevant info you need in one single place? Look no further, head right now to leweb12.netvibesbusiness.com and take advantage of all the comprehensive information we’ve gathered for you on the conference, including:

• social networks monitoring (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
• blogs
• pictures
• agenda
• exhibitors and sponsors profiles
• and more…

And like with every Live Dashboard, Netvibes will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards, like SmartFilters and Analytics. With our latest apps (like Social Search), easily keep up with all the news and announcements and don’t miss a single bit of info about LeWeb 2012. Follow the event from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch.

Check it out now! http://leweb12.netvibesbusiness.com

What does “social” mean outside of sales & marketing? What does it mean for my industry, specifically? And how do we deal with the problem of having to juggle many different data systems?

The answer is Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence.

Discover how Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence can help companies deliver the right information to the right person at the right time, on all devices. Learn why we’re now a key part of Dassault Systèmes 3DExperience platform. See how “social intelligence” enables social innovation experiences for designers, engineers and analysts in all industries.

Want to learn more? Head to insights.netvibes.com for industry-specific examples and demo dashboards.

Day after day, Netvibes keeps moving towards a unified user interface, to guarantee the same experience on every device, whether you’re using your dashboard on a desktop computer, a tablet or a mobile.

Today, we’re inviting you to discover our new and improved Top Bar.

• complete revamping: the Top Bar is now completely resizable;
• better adaptability: we’re now using font icons that adapt according to the size of your screen or window;
• new podcast player with better integration.

Enhancements that ensure a better adapted Top Bar for small displays, on both tablets and mobile phones, as well as new Retina displays. Try it now on your own dashboard.

As part of our ongoing evolution, and after giving it a lot of thought, we’ve decided to formally close Netvibes’ internal social network. Instead, we’re constantly opening our doors to allow you to integrate all the best social services for both consumers and Enterprise users–from Facebook to Yammer–all on Netvibes.

Here are just a few examples of some of our built-in social apps:

• Facebook – There are 3 ways to manage Facebook: Facebook Profile (manage your personal profile), Social Search (see what people are saying) and Facebook Search & Compare (track & compare Fan pages – for Premium Users only).
• Twitter – Post to your account with our Twitter app or use Social Search to follow new trends and influencers.
• Social Search – Use our 3-in-1 Social Search app to search Facebook, Twitter and BoardReader message boards all at once. Then, simply drag-and-follow hashtags or users to create new apps to track topics and influencers as you discover them.

Netvibes also features Facebook Connect to make it easy to signup and login to your dashboard. Moreover, you can easily share any article or app within Netvibes, just click the Share icon to post it to your Facebook or Twitter.

Last, but not least, Netvibes Premium users are able to use our adaptive social analytics tools to spot real-time trends, uncover key influencers, and understand public sentiment on Facebook, Twitter, forums, blogs and the entire Web. Netvibes Premium and Netvibes for Enterprise users also have the capability to integrate with social enterprise tools like Yammer, SwYm or blueKiwi.

So, whatever social network or social enterprise tool you use, Netvibes is there to dashboard it. After all, that’s our mission, to help you dashboard everything.

Our Terms Of Service and Privacy Policy have been updated accordingly.

We would also like to take this opportunity to make it official: Netvibes has moved! We’re now sharing bigger offices with our Exalead friends, as part of our integration into Dassault Systèmes. This doesn’t change anything for you, rest assured that we’re still and will always be dedicated to making the best dashboard for our users.

The race is on. On November the 6th, the United States will elect a President for the 57th time since the birth of their country. Will Barack Obama, the actual president, be confirmed in his position? Or will Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, take everyone by surprise and win his way to the White House?

Do you want to be kept informed about everything related to the election? Afraid you might miss an important event? Don’t worry: we’ve got you covered!

With this brand new dedicated Live Dashboard, you’ll be able to stay up to date on the latest news and everything related to the US Presidential Election. To help you follow this event from anywhere, we’ve gathered all the relevant information in one place:

• Latest News & announcements from both parties
• Pictures & Videos
• Blog Posts & Podcasts
• Social Networks Monitoring (Twitter, Facebook)
• Analytics
• And much more…

Using the full power of our Netvibes Premium dashboards (with tools like SmartFilters or Analytics) and our latest apps (Social Search), easily keep up with all the news and announcements and don’t miss a single bit of info about the 2012 US Election. And you can follow it from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch.

Check it out now! http://2012uselection.netvibesbusiness.com/

Are you a cars enthusiast? Then this is for you: from Sept 29 to Oct 14, Paris will be hosting the 2012 Motor Show. Concept cars, new production models and a whole lot more, this is an unmissable event if you love cars.

Afraid you might miss an important announcement? Want to know all about the show but can’t be there in person? Don’t worry: we’re here to help!

Thanks to this new Live Dashboard, you’ll be sure to stay up to date on the latest news and everything that’ll be happening at the 2012 Motor Show. To help you follow the event from anywhere, we’ve gathered all the relevant information in one place:

• Latest News & announcements
• Pictures & Videos
• Blog Posts & Podcasts
• Social Networks Monitoring (Twitter, Facebook)
• And much more…

Using the full power of our Netvibes Premium dashboards (with tools like SmartFiltersor Analytics) and our latest apps (Social Search), easily keep up with all the news and announcements and experience the 2012 Motor Show as if you were there. Whether you want to monitor it from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch, you won’t miss a thing!

Check it out now! http://parismotorshow12.netvibesbusiness.com/

We appreciate everyone’s comments and would like to take a moment to respond. We take your comments seriously, so if we take a few days to respond, it is because we are talking it over with our designers, product and developers teams to provide the best solution we can. The last thing we want to do is to give immediate “yes” or “no” answers that may change or to flip-flop between major UI changes without serious consideration.

Today, many people are using Netvibes on more than just desktop browsers, but on iPhones, iPads, Android, Blackberry, tablets and other mobile devices. So, we have been working on creating the best native UI versions of Netvibes for mobile devices and tablets.

But we soon noticed a big problem. On smaller devices, if you have many tabs, you may end up seeing only tabs! Our new “slim” Tab Navigation interface will work much more intuitively and smoothly on a touchscreen device than a large clutter of tabs filling the entire screen, while making room for you to view more of what really matters: your feeds and apps. It also makes it easier to drag and drop items exactly where you want them inside of the destination tab.

Our vision has always been to enable users to access their dashboard anywhere, anytime, on any device. To enable a seamless experience across all browsers, devices and screen sizes, we need to have a consistent UI. The last thing you want is to have 100 different versions of Netvibes, where you need to relearn an entirely different UI for mobile vs. desktop or native app vs. mobile web.

Not only do we want to provide a consistent experience across different devices, but we also want to give you room for growth. If you have a lot of tabs now, you may have even more tabs in the future.

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you about the “Reader View” that might be more appropriate if you like to have all your information at a glance. Simply flip the switch on the top of your dashboard from “Widget” to “Reader” and find out if it’s more suited for your Netvibes usage.

And for those of you who prefer our old multi-row tab view, one of our users made a cool browser extension to replace our new tab interface with the previous one.

To install it :

• For Google Chrome (Mac / Windows), go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdgjefadoieadohnhaenhadeggfldajh
• For Safari (Mac / Windows), go to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72757/NvMultiline.safariextz
• For Firefox (Mac / Windows), go to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72757/nvmultiline.xpi
• Restart your browser (if needed)

Unfortunately, we have nothing to offer for our IE users at the moment but if anyone has a solution to suggest, do it in the comments, we’ll edit this post.

Please note that these extensions were not developed by Netvibes, and though we reviewed them and can guarantee that they’re 100% safe, we cannot offer any support regarding their usage.

In our permanent search to improve our dashboards, we’re happy to announce the implementation of a new feature called “Progressive Loading”.

If you’re a hardcore Netvibes user, with a lot of tabs and apps, your dashboard will load faster, displaying only the apps that are actually showing on the screen, preloading the rest in the background. Your browser will require less power and memory to process the pages (especially on the latest Internet Explorer) which means more performance for your dashboard while keeping the acurate “unread” count for each one of your tabs.

No change in your routine there, only a smoother display.

Following the launch of our fast & slim Tab Navigator, this new improvement will surely make your Netvibes experience run smoother. Check it out right now on your dashboard!

Questions? Comments? Post them below.

To ensure an ever better service, we’re gonna need to perform large database operations and do some maintenance work on our servers. It will allow us to improve the overall performance of your dashboard and address a few bugs, i.e. the one causing inaccurate “read/unread” flags.

This maintenance is scheduled for Thursday 09/20 morning (6am CET) and should not exceed 5 hours.

Don’t worry though: there will be no downtime, which means your dashboard will still be available during that time. BUT any item mark as read or unread during that period will be reset after the maintenance.

Thanks for your understanding.

This week we celebrate the 7th anniversary of Netvibes.com!

Time flies, as every year! There’s a been many new features added to our dashboards these last twelve months (new apps, new optimizations, both for our Basic and Premium users, Netvibes Insights with user ressources and tutorial videos) and we’re going to keep growing throughout the forthcoming ones!

From all of us at Netvibes: thank you for using our dashboards, but also for translating, contributing, critiquing and most of all, loving us. We promise to continue to improve our products each and every day.

Stay tuned!

There are so many wonderful things to track and keep tabs on! Netvibes dashboards are so good at helping you monitor things, that soon you’ll want to add more – more apps, more news, more analytics!

But when you have too many rows of tabs, the widget view on your dashboard can become a bit cluttered and most of all, you’ll lose precious space.

Good news: Our new Tab Navigator is here!

In a nutshell:

Slimmer

Tabs are now displayed in ONE scrollable line to save space.

Smoother

Click on the left or right arrow to scroll one tab at a time. Double-click to scroll faster (or do a long click on your tablet). Or you can even scroll with your mouse wheel!

Dropdown Menu

Click the dropdown menu to reveal a scrollable list of all your tabs – each showing real-time unread counts so you’ll always know when new content appears.

Long Distance Drag & Drop

Click an app, drag it to the Tab Navigator, and hover over the desired tab (either from the dropdown menu or scroll bar). The destination tab will pop up and you can drop the app exactly where you want to. Hint: You can even use Drag-and-Follow to create new Twitter searches on different tabs, organized by topic.

Completely revamped “edit” section

The “edit” section has been redisgned, it’s now clearer & much easier to use.

Advanced tip: for Netvibes Premium users, you can also do Drag-and-Compare analytics across tabs. Just drag the bottom right corner of any analytic app over the Tab Navigator to pick your tab, then drop it on top of any other analytic app to create a new pivot graph.

And of course, this new feature is 100% compatible with touch devices (iPad, tablets) and current themes, as you can see in the examples below.

Questions? Comments? Drop us a line below.

ミナさんこんにちは！Did you know that Netvibes is used in more than 100+ countries? Today, we support nearly 50 languages — including 100% native UI versions in Japanese, Spanish, English and French. ¡Qué bueno!

Read on to learn about all the languages we support and how you can get involved.

Netvibes Translators is a community-driven translation program, where Netvibes users can contribute to translate the entire Netvibes UI experience into other languages. Currently, there are many projects underway, including partial (but fully useable) support for German, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic and dozens of other languages. To get involved, click here.

Also, since Netvibes supports RSS feeds in all languages, monitoring the global news and blogosphere is a snap. Our Social Search app even lets you filter your Twitter, Facebook and BoardReader searches by language.

Want to get involved with Netvibes Translators? Click here.

A presto!

Right now, if you’re lucky, you’re probably enjoying some sun, far away from work. You’re also probably enjoying your Netvibes dashboard on your own laptop or mobile, using the latest updated version of your favorite browser. Unfortunately, when the holiday is over and you’re back at your workplace, you won’t necessary have the same liberty of choice and might not have the latest version installed.

Which you could be a problem, especially if you’re forced to use an earlier version of Internet Explorer: you will not get all the latest Javascript improvements required for Netvibes to function properly.

Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to this issue: install the extension Google Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer.

1. Go to http://www.google.com/chromeframe
2. Click “Install extension” and follow the instructions
3. That’s it!

No need to reboot your machine, simply restart your browser. The extension will be instantly active and will allow you to fully enjoy your dashboard, as well as modern web sites using HTML5 and CSS3.

Questions? Remarks? Leave us a comment below.

Here’s an excellent Top 100 lists on the best Tech blogs and newspapers. We thought these sources might interest you, whether you’re a Basic user in search of interesting, new feeds, or a Premium user looking to improve your Open Corpus. (To learn more about how to create a better monitoring & analysis dashboard for your brand, be sure to watch this great tutorial).

Here are the lists compiled in 2 ready-to-use tabs for your dashboard:

 Top 100 News Tech & Blogs – English

 Top 100 News Tech & Blogs – French

To add them to your dashboard, it’s really easy:

1. Make sure you are logged in
2. Click the “+ Netvibes” button next to the list you’re interested in (or all 2 if you want)
3. And… Actually, that’s it!

Easy, right? Your dashboard is now equiped for a sharper and more relevant monitoring.

Questions, comments, compilations of your own sources you would like to share? Want to see more “content packs” in Netvibes? Feel free to drop us a line in the comments below!