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LeWeb, the first European event focused on the Internet and new technologies, will take place in Paris between the 10th and 12th of December. And as we do every year, we 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 leweb13.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’13. Follow the event from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch.

We will also be present at the event to let you know about our answer to this year’s theme “The Next 10 Years of The Web”. But more about this very soon, stay tuned.

In the meantime, check out the Live Dashboard at http://leweb13.netvibesbusiness.com

Following the demise of iGoogle and Google Reader, many users were left without a home overnight. Various bloggers commented that this might signal the death of both feed readers and startpages. Considering that Netvibes has gained a record number of users last month —literally hundreds of thousands of new users(*)— this notion couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Netvibes started as a way to organize your daily digital life. Back then it was just about getting all your feeds in one customizable place and curate content to share with others.

Should we have stayed there, we’d probably disappeared too.

Then came the social web, bringing far too much data for anyone to monitor manually. So we immediately brought you automated social analytics and alerts, so you can uncover trends and influencers automatically. We changed our tagline to “Dashboard Everything” to prove Netvibes empowered you to monitor everything that mattered to you and we carved our vision: Dashboard Intelligence.

Dashboards drive to Intelligence to help you make decisions. More data, faster updates enforce this need to analyze, suggest and even act for you.

Then, we were acquired by Dassault Systèmes, one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world. We mentioned then that they see the world exactly as we do —a common vision to help people go from being buried by data, to visualizing it and beyond— which is to say to extract actionable insights. We are Dashboard Intelligence.

The start page and Readers as we knew them may have drastically evolved, but Dashboard Intelligence has emerged. Real-time dashboards have never been more relevant. It’s not just about the apps, or the feeds, or social data. It’s about bringing it all together and automating the insights.

In a couple weeks at LeWeb, we will present our answer to the theme of the event “The Next 10 Years of The Web”. And our answer is simple. It’s about empowerment. Putting the power of control and insight back into the hands of the user, who has been increasingly buried under more and more data. How will we do it? Stay tuned to find out!

(*) We recorded a 338% increase in new user registrations, a 349% increase in new dashboards created and a 153% increase in daily crawled streams following both services’ closing.

Monitoring is great and nobody does it better than Netvibes. But what’s even better is being able to share your curated items easily, on any service, from any device.

Sharing with Netvibes is super easy, especially since we revamped our sharing feature last June. Here are a few quick examples on how you can share content & knowledge with Netvibes.

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iGoogle is closing in a few days. Most people have already moved to a new service, a lot of you have chosen Netvibes (using our migration tool) and we’re very proud of that. And to make sure you feel at home, today we’re releasing a brand new UWA (Universal Web Apps) documentation, to help developers port their iGoogle gadgets to Netvibes without hassle.

Still looking for your next home after iGoogle closure? Read about all the key benefits you’ll get from registering at Netvibes. For free. Need help building your first dashboard? Read our tutorial.

Plus we’ve got brand new templates to suit all your topical needs: finance, news, sports, videogames, movies & tv, and even a special “refugee” template for all our ex-iGoogle friends.

Now you’re probably asking yourself: that’s great for all my RSS feeds, but what about my gadgets?

That’s what the big news of today is about: the availability of our revised documentation for UWA. Many gadget developers requested this, and it will help them create brand new widgets (or port their favorite ones from iGoogle).

It contains tutorials and sample widgets to get started, as well as a comprehensive documentation for the client-side JavaScript Framework used to render and build Apps with cross-envrionment compatibility.

Whether you’re looking for the best dashboard to monitor everything or looking to develop your own apps, Netvibes is the perfect home for you. Want to join the family? Head over this page for an easy migration.

Welcome!

PS: Netvibes also offers premium products for individual professionals, agencies and enterprises, featuring custom social analytics, alerts and team collaboration. Check it out!

“MisoData begins where Excel ends.” Launched in June for Netvibes Premium, MisoData is a new technology that makes it easy to compare internal data alongside external social trends, just by dragging & dropping.

And today we’re taking MisoData to the next level! Until now, to use MisoData, you had three options: upload a pre-formated XLS/CSV datasheet, link to a datasheet in the cloud or input the numbers by hand, which was already a great & easy way to import all your internal data directly into your dashboard.

But what if you could connect your data source with MisoData directly, without the need of an intermediate datasheet? Wouldn’t that be even better?

Introducing MisoData API for Netvibes Premium.

Now with its brand new API, MisoData can directly grab the data at its source and integrate seemlessly with Netvibes.

Key advantages:

• connect MisoData API with your website, your software, your own data source.
• collect data and use the API to generate MisoData apps on the fly via a special URL.
• get your data right from the source, no need to process your data via the MisoData wizard.

This new feature is available for all Premium users. If you want access to the API and its documentation, please contact us.

Suggestions? Remarks? Leave them in the comments below or on our Uservoice page.

More about MisoData:

Introducing Netvibes MisoData
MisoData Showcase
MisoData Training Video