Netvibes Blog

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.

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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.

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…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?

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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