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Widgets for your dashboard are a great way to see your favorites at a glance

Last month, we announced that we are working on the Netvibes Instant Update architecture, a new technology that allow feeds to refresh in near real time. Our engineers are still working hard on it, but we wanted to share our progress with you. Here is a short video (plays 8x faster than normal speed) that [...]

A few months ago, we introduced a new way to personalize your page with the Theme API. This XML format allows anyone to create a theme for Netvibes. Today, we’re bringing life to these themes by supporting animated themes! With this new capability, you can now create themes that evolve with your day.

Last week at the Techcrunch Real Time Stream CrunchUp we presented an promising new real-time feed architecture we’ve been working on. It’s fascinating how rapidly the world is embracing Twitter feeds and other real-time syndication technologies. However, traditional media content—in particular blog posts, news sites and RSS feeds—are lagging far behind. Literally.

Mozilla Corp. just released the latest version of their browser: Firefox. This new version brings major speed improvements that will make your Netvibes significantly faster. If you’re running an older browser, you might want to give it a try. To download the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, go to http://www.mozilla.com/. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux in many languages.

We’re happy to welcome a new Netvibes user, Emiliano who was born last night. Warmest congrats to Annabelle, our Managing Director!
And we have a special theme for the occasion: apply the theme ”It’s a boy”

I’m going to be speaking on a panel at IMC San Francisco on May 12th. IMC is a hands-on conference, so we’re looking forward to providing you with knowledge you can apply right away, and networking opportunities with the industry peers.

The conference will cover topics from Behavioral Targeting, Social Advertising, and above all [...]

Update : Sorry we’re sold out for this edition of the Netvibes Rendez-Vous in San Francisco. Contact us directly at business.netvibes.com.
From April 21st to April 23rd, will be ad:tech in San Francisco, one of the largest interactive advertising and technology conference. We’re organizing an event on Wednesday 22nd. If you’re around, join us for an [...]

In 2007, thanks to your votes, we won a Webware 100 award for the Browsing category. This year, we are happy to be finalists again, but it would be great to get an award again! If you like Netvibes, show us your support by voting for us! You can vote until April 30th.

Thanks for your [...]

We believe advertising is the last thing our users would want on their page, but this absence of a visible revenue generation can sometimes raise certain questions about how our company is doing, such as in a post last week by ReadWriteWeb in response to our brief downtime this past Friday.
This gives us a great [...]