Netvibes Blog

Add Instagram & Photostreams To Your Netvibes Dashboard

2012-05-04T08:35:47Z

Nowadays a lot of social networks revolve around sharing pictures, like Flickr or Instagram for instance. A couple of weeks ago, we brought the whole Netvibes experience to our iPad users in a move towards a unified experience. Now seems like a good time to demonstrate the power of our dashboards with one simple visual example.

And what better way to do so than with adding an Instagram photostream in Netvibes?

It’s easy!

Create: Add Content > Add a Feed
Paste: http://instagr.am/tags/[any tag]/feed/recent.rss
Edit: Change [any tag] into whatever tag you want to search for

Voila! You’re done. Now the fun part is viewing it. You can switch your new Instagram feed app into Magazine View (click the little gear icon).

Or you can also view everything in Reader View by selecting your new Instagram feed app (or a whole Tab just filled with Instagram feeds) and switching to Mosaic display.

Want even more photos? Try it out with other photostreams (like Flickr or Picasa) or even with regular news sites that make use of nice image enclosures (like Yahoo Sports, Joystiq or GigaOM to name but a few).

Got any other cool tips or tricks? Share them below.

A New Netvibes for iPad: Towards a Unified User Experience

2012-04-17T14:27:59Z

Until now, iPad users were automatically redirected to the mobile version of Netvibes — which works great on any mobile device. But we wanted to go a step further to offer a version specifically designed for the iPad, optimized with a smooth touch experience and even more features.

Grab your iPad, log on to www.netvibes.com and see for yourself. We made a lot of code & cosmetic improvements to allow our iPad users to enjoy the full power of our dashboards:

Drag & drop apps or tabs easily with the touch of your finger
Personalize your dashboard design and layouts, just like on your computer
Follow new trends with Drag & Follow using our new Social Search app
Switch from landscape to portrait simply by rotating your iPad
Access all your Netvibes web apps right from your dashboard

Now you can enjoy the full Netvibes experience, right from your iPad, including the Widget view that our desktop users love so much. See all your apps, move them around, simply create the perfect dashboard for you, with the tip of your fingers. Or stick to the Reader view if your prefer to display your newsfeeds. You now have the choice!

This is just the tip of the iceberg. We are embarking on a journey to bring a unified user experience across all devices and all screen sizes — with native-like UI features. Imagine being able to access your Netvibes apps and dashboard anytime, from any device, seamlessly. Perfectly in sync. Perfectly designed.

Netvibes Insights – Financial Services: The New Social Ticker

2012-04-11T12:16:01Z

Update: the full Insights video is now online, watch it for free!

This Thursday, join us for Financial Services: The New Social Ticker.

We will explore how both institutional and retail financial services can accelerate their product innovation processes by identifying opportunities in social media, emerging regulations and collaborative knowledge sharing. Examples include: State Street, Fidelity, Hartford Life, Metlife, AXA, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, HSBC.

When? April 5th 2012
US time: 10am PT, 1pm ET
EU time: 10am CET (Paris time)

Every month, Netvibes Insights takes you behind the scenes of today’s top brands using dashboard intelligence. Who are the influencers? How do people perceive their products? What are the differences between their social media strategies?

Join us as we feature industry experts and their insights into the future of social media and digital content in financial services. We’ll learn how companies like BNP Paribas, HSBC and Fidelity handle their online presence.

We’ll also discover:

How institutional and retail financial services tackle social media and traditional PR differently
What regulations the expert community is really concerned about (Solvency II and data privacy for insurance companies, and EMIR and UCITS 4 for financial markets)
How to develop products faster by listening to the online conversation and by using the collaborative tools of our Dashboards (like SmartTagging)

Click here to register for free!

Listen & Learn from Twitter, Facebook & Forums with our new 3-in-1 Social Search App

2012-03-30T08:50:18Z

Wouldn’t it be great if you could keep an eye on social chatter and discussion boards in real-time, all in one app? Now you can with our new 3-in-1 Social Search app.

It combines 3 indispensable social monitoring tools together:

Facebook
Twitter
BoardReader

Social Search lets you search for any topic across all 3 services and delivers results to you in one merged stream, all in real-time. Just type a keyword, click and go. It’s easy.

What’s more:

See search streams immediately in any view, including SmartReader or Netvibes Mobile
Mark search results as read or not read, just like any other article
Filter by language
Drag & follow users, mentions or hashtags to create a new app and start following trends or influencers right away

For Premium users, Social Search results can be added to your corpus and analyzed on the fly. Discover and uncover What people are saying, Who the influencers are and How your brand is perceived on Facebook, Twitter and discussion forums.

Over the next few days, we’ll deploy Social Search across all of our dashboards, automatically updating your currently installed search apps (Twitter Search, Facebook Search, BoardReader). This is completely transparent for the user, no setup required on your end.

You can also add the new 3-in-1 Social Search app from the “Essential Widgets” section of the “Add Content” menu.

Questions? Feedback? Feel free to drop us a line in the comments below.

Netvibes Premium 1.3: New Visual Reporting and Exporting

2012-03-15T14:52:50Z

Ever wish you could save time and automate reports to your team or clients? Want to quickly export social analytics from Netvibes Premium to your spreadsheet or presentation? Now it’s easy with our new visual reporting and exporting features for Netvibes Premium.

Now you can get automated, custom designed reports sent to your team, clients or yourself – including your latest social analytics charts.

Here’s how:

Add everything you want reported to a New Tab (RSS, social apps and SmartFilters).
Go to NPD Manager > Reports and select the New Tab to be reported, insert recipients and choose delivery frequency. If you want to change your reports, just update the order and content in the tab you created.

You can also export any analytics app (CSV or PNG) on Netvibes directly to your favorite spreadsheet or presentation software to make your own reports or graphs. It’s easy:

Click the new Image button (on any app) and export a PNG image to your desktop. You can drag-and-drop this file into any email, document or presentation.
Or click the Export button at the bottom of any Netvibes Premium analytics app to export a CSV file. Then import this into any spreadsheet to make your own graphs or reports.

These features can really save you and your team a lot of time by helping you automate your reports to colleagues or clients. This brings a whole new dimension to Netvibes Premium. The most powerful brand monitoring and social analytics solution is now also an easy-to-use automated reporting solution.

Questions? Feedback? Let us know in the comments below.

Netvibes Insights – Detroit 2.0: The Big 3 Go Social

2012-02-27T15:37:32Z

Join us, March 1, 10AM PST/1PM EST, as we learn how Chrysler, Ford and GM have marketed their comeback stories and how America is buying in on the real-time Web.

This month’s session is “Detroit 2.0: The Big 3 Go Social”. Detroit is back. A new, much more social Detroit now leads the way in both technical and social innovation. See how Chrysler, Ford and GM are bringing customers back through social media. Together with auto industry experts, we’ll take a live look at:

Who won this year’s Super Bowl ad battle with consumers
How Detroit’s Big 3 tackle social media differently
Why industry mergers are perceived differently by analysts vs. consumers

Go to insights.netvibes.com to signup — and also see videos and demo dashboards from past webinars where we analyzed Kraft, Groupon and Nike.

New Netvibes Ecosystem 3: Better, Faster & More Platforms!

2012-02-23T17:31:16Z

Netvibes continues to grow and user signups have increased 25% on a weekly basis since two weeks ago. This means more of our dashboard apps are being used than ever before.

That’s why we’ve made major improvements to the Netvibes Ecosystem to help deliver apps faster, cleaner and to even more users on more platforms. Now you can even install your favorite Netvibes apps on Chrome and Blogger!

Faster: We’ve got a lot of feedback on improving Netvibes’ speed and responsiveness, and we’ve listened! Eco now runs roughly four times faster than before. This is important so we can serve more users instantly, especially on mobile devices.

Cleaner: We want to make sure that the best apps remain. From now on, buggy or unused ones will be progressively removed to ensure the best app experience.

More New Platforms: Most importantly, with our 3 new compilers, you can now use Netvibes on a wider range of platforms:

Business developers can also now deploy UWA apps with a native-like UI on iPhone, iPad and other mobile platforms (Android, BlackBerry OS 5 & 6, HP WebOS 2 & 3).

Other improvements:

New “Tools” page – 3rd party extensions and other goodies!
New Multifeed wizard – Instantly make your own multi-feed app!
New thumbnails system for Apps/Dashboards/Themes
Improved IE support
Improved Theme editor with previews
Other bug fixes and security improvements

Check out the new Netvibes Ecosystem 3 at: eco.netvibes.com

As you can tell, Netvibes is still growing and we’re still working on improving our Dashboards, for both our Basic and Premium users. The first step is to ensure the long-term growth of quality apps for our dashboards with a faster, cleaner Ecosystem that runs on even more platforms.

We will continue to build out our Ecosystem and UWA technologies to help developers “code once, deploy everywhere”. Our motto is still to help people “dashboard everything” – everywhere on every platform.

So stay tuned for new apps built using for our new Ecosystem and UWA 2!

Netvibes is now part of Dassault Systèmes

2012-02-20T14:56:18Z

Today is one of the proudest moments in Netvibes history:

We are now part of Dassault Systèmes.

This is huge for Netvibes and great news for our users. The product, brand and team stays the same, but our ability to innovate will be greatly enhanced. So, why did we choose Dassault Systèmes and where is Netvibes headed?

Our vision has always been to bring dashboard personalization to the entire world. We’ve come a long way since our start as a personal startpage in 2005. Today, millions of people around the world use Netvibes Basic to dashboard everything that matters and manage their daily digital lives. Thanks to our users, Netvibes won more awards than any other dashboard solution and continues to grow as the best reader and monitoring tool in the world. Not surprisingly, companies were quick to see the potential of using dashboards for business, too.

Today, Netvibes Premium and Netvibes for Enterprise deliver dashboard intelligence for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, governments and enterprises, including L’Oreal, Digitas, McCann Worldgroup, Sage and the US Dept. of Energy. We currently serve more than half a billion Web apps per month and our ecosystem is now the biggest, with more than 250,000+ universal Web apps.

So what’s next?

We believe that the future of business is dashboard intelligence, which will help companies understand everything that’s going on across the real-time Web and inside and outside their organization. This ultimately will create a better world in which brands react instantly to changing consumer needs and a better work environment with personalized work dashboards tailored for each employee. This future puts Netvibes in a unique position in the enterprise market. It also means we are competing against large, multi-national corporations and enterprise vendors.

To continue to grow and to achieve our ambitious vision, we needed an ambitious partner. Our revenue is strong and we were never for sale, but we found an exceptional partner: Dassault Systèmes. They are the leader in 3D and PLM, with about 10,000 employees and 135,000 customers in the whole industry–they have global resources. Virtually every products in the world is designed using their software, including the Boeing 777–they have deep technology and modeling experience.

As Bernard Charlès says “Netvibes is a perfect fit with our 3D Experience platform. It will connect and combine products, usages, internal and external data sources, user intelligence and social tagging. All in real-time and in context for a better, richer experience and decision-making process.”

They believe in the future of bringing dashboard intelligence to all companies–they share our vision. This means if you like Netvibes, you’ll love the new Netvibes. Our product and team will stay the same, but you can expect new features, faster than ever. (In fact, you will see some great ones over the next few weeks!) Both users and clients can expect a long-term future growth and stability, backed by one of the largest public companies in France.

We are committed to this future. And we are committed to you. We are 100% committed to providing you with best dashboards in the world. Period. Without compromises.

Got questions? Leave a comment below. Drop us a note on Twitter or Facebook. We’d love to hear from you.

This is not the end of the journey. The journey has just begun. More info.

Read the FAQ (and especially this section devoted to the questions you asked us).

Freddy Mini
CEO, Netvibes

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Tech@State and Syria Live Dashboards

2012-02-02T16:29:00Z

Consumer social monitoring tools let you track a few Twitter accounts. But what if you need to analyze an entire country in real-time?

Netvibes was invited by the Department of State on a panel that will discuss the answers to this question at the Tech@State conference on Feb. 3-4 in Washington, DC. We hope to see some of you there!

To demonstrate how Netvibes helps government agencies visualize real-time information, we created Syria Live. Check it out for live analysis of what’s going on in Syria right now!

Also, we created a Tech@State 2012 conference dashboard where you can see everything that’s being said at the conference, plus speaker sessions, conference info, videos and more.

Netvibes Premium Dashboard 1.2: New Features & Improvements

2012-01-19T15:26:36Z

It’s been two months since we launched Netvibes Premium, our powerful analytics solution for brand managers and social media professionals, and we’re constantly listening to our users remarks and suggestions to make it an even better product.

This week we’ll launch new features and improvements for both our Premium and Basic dashboards.

Social Pack Improvements (for Premium)

We listened to your feedbacks and improved our charts to make them more readable in all situations, even with large scales and extended period of analysis. We also added a color picker which allows you to choose between five different colors for every social pack widget and add clarity to your dashboard.

Highlights on charts have also been improved: relevant legend is now highlighted when you move your mouse over a particular section of a chart. And vice versa.

On widgets with sources or authors, you can now go directly to the domain by simply clicking on the favicon on the left. You can also switch to a new view that lists all unique sources, with no limitation.

Facebook Improvements (for Basic & Premium)

But we also thought about our Basic users and upgraded our Facebook widget. The widget will now allow you to drag & follow any user name or page in your timeline to start following it in a new widget. Easy!

Another thing you can now do with the Facebook widget is collapse or expand it. To gain space on your Dashboard, you can choose to only show its description and expand it back to the full widget when you need to have access to the whole timeline. Perfect for users who need to monitor a lot of Facebook timelines.

Finally we’re happy to introduce our brand new Facebook Search widget. Easily parse through your Facebook content, unveil mentions and monitor brands or topics. Add it on your dashboard and try it right away!

As you can see, there are new things for everyone, both our Basic and Premium users. And if you want to discover our Premium solution with analytics features and see how it works, why not sign up for a free trial upgrade to Netvibes Premium today and try it out?