Netvibes Blog

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?

Every month with Netvibes Insights we take a look at what’s really on with today’s top brands: a free live breakdown analysis to showcase our Netvibes Premium powerful analytics tools.

This month, we’ll put Kraft Foods, the American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate, under the microscope.

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Like last 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 10th and 13th 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 2012 CES without flying to Las Vegas, the best way to do it is to log on to ces2012.netvibesbusiness.com and enjoy every minute of this big event from your armchair, in your office or on your mobile phone.

Enjoy!

This holiday season, we wanted to thank all of our users around the world for making Netvibes and Netvibes Premium such a wonderful success. What better way than by celebrating with a cool new Essential App: Google Analytics for Netvibes!

It’s a great way to track your blog or site traffic and visitor metrics – right from your Netvibes dashboard. You can even modify date ranges to customize your reports.

As we’ve said before, we believe that dashboards should be free. Free from ads, free for all, free forever. We also believe in the freedom of data and that metrics should be free as well. That’s why we’ll continue to develop apps for metric-reporting services like Google Analytics, so you can view your metrics on your dashboard — whether you are a Basic or Premium user.

We also appreciate that many of our professional users want to go beyond metrics and use our dashboards to uncover real meaning. That’s why we developed Netvibes Premium, which give you deep insights into interrelated trends and brand sentiment. We spend a lot of time and massive computing power to create this meaning from metrics, which is why it is a premium product.

(If you want to check it out, you can get a free trial of Netvibes Premium and talk with us One-to-One here.)

However, for those that just want to monitor their own metrics, we’ll continue to develop free apps to help you do so, like our Google Analytics app, because we believe metrics should be free and available to everyone.

If you have any other suggestions, please let us know!

Again, thank you all for a wonderful year and we look forward to developing even more cool features for you in 2012!

It’s a girl!

We’re all very happy to welcome little Albane to the Netvibes family. She was born a couple of days ago and is in perfect health, ready to take on the world. Our warmest congratulations to Baptiste from our EMEA Sales Team and, of course, to Albane’s mother.

Best of luck in life, Albane!