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The Future of Netvibes

As many of you may have already heard, we’ve taken on an incredible opportunity (thanks to Ouriel for getting the word out) to make netvibes the best platform on the web: we recently accepted an investment of US $15 million to do just that.

We would not be here without your incredible support. In less than a year, we have been able to prove that there is an ever-increasing demand for a digital life manager in our development of netvibes. The millions of netvibes users have been a vital resource from the very beginning.

The entire netvibes team is extremely excited to improve your daily netvibes experience while preserving the reliability and functionality that you’ve grown to know and love. In other words, netvibes will only get better.

The next step ahead for netvibes includes a wide array of improvements. We’ll be ramping up our user support and working around the clock to respond to your feedback. We’ll be adding greater personalization, including netvibes skins and more customizable settings. We’ll also be working to dramatically increase the speed of your netvibes experience — we’re in the process of rewriting the entire backend to optimize page loads.

At netvibes, we are actively working to make our service available to everyone in every language. In fact, we have already built a collaborative tool for the translation of any content on netvibes. The service, now in beta, enabled us to successfully translate the site into Spanish and Japanese. We’d like put a call out for those interested in translating netvibes into a new language — please get in touch with us via the feedback form.

Last, and certainly not least, we’re planning on launching local advisory boards that will help us localizing the content — by adding new blogs, news sources, and other local web services to accommodate your tastes. If you’d like to get involved in this, please contact us.

We’re looking forward to a very bright future here at netvibes, and we couldn’t have made it here without our incredible team and users. Thank you!

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  5. Hello Canada ! The Canadian version of Netvibes is up
  6. Hej Danmark ! The Danish version of Netvibes is up
  7. Witaj Polsko ! The Polish version of Netvibes is up

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84 Responses to “The Future of Netvibes”

  1. #1 | phil | August 17th, 2006 at 14:03

    whaou ! happy for you guys ! keep up the good work !

  2. #2 | Shan | August 17th, 2006 at 14:31

    Just discovered Netvibes yesterday via Meebo and am loving it! Keep up the good work!

  3. #3 | Armen | August 17th, 2006 at 14:45

    Netvibes is my home page for about a year now; good job :)
    One nagging issue I have been having is within the feed reader: if a new entry has been added to a feed whilst I am still in the reader, I feel that the reader should update dynamically, as opposed to me backing out of the reader and then returning to the feed.
    Keep up the great job guys!

  4. #4 | adel | August 17th, 2006 at 14:55

    good job guys

    waiting for the french version, i communicate about netvibes several times each day

    good luck

  5. #5 | Vincent | August 17th, 2006 at 14:59

    Thanks for these explanations Tariq.

  6. #6 | Alfredo | August 17th, 2006 at 15:03

    I’ve been using netvibes for such a long time, and now I can’t live without it. I hope that that investment doesn’t mean that users will have to pay to access netvibes on a near (nor distant) future.
    Anyway, getting money after the bubble in the end of the 90’s is quite a feat. Congratz.

  7. #7 | Luke | August 17th, 2006 at 15:15

    A lighter netvibes version would be great, so i can use it on my Symbian OS9.1 phone (Nokia E70), without running out of memory.

  8. #8 | ftv00es | August 17th, 2006 at 15:26

    Great! Keep up the good work! Now I can’t live without Netvibes!!! :D

  9. #9 | Ken | August 17th, 2006 at 15:50

    Look forward to sharing that bright future with you…it has certainly been a super "past!!"

  10. #10 | RodC | August 17th, 2006 at 15:59

    Congratulations on all the great work so-far. – Have been using Netvibes for months now & it is indeed just getting better.
    Looking forward to new things ahead.
    Rod – Sydney, Australia

  11. #11 | Noel | August 17th, 2006 at 16:03

    Great #$&%? job guys! One nagging question keeps popping up on my mind, how will you all make money for these investors? Ads?

  12. #12 | Dime01 | August 17th, 2006 at 16:38

    Wow excelent, good luck!

  13. #13 | Dean | August 17th, 2006 at 16:40

    Netvibes is teh r0xx0r! NV FTW! Mwa ha ha – all yuor internetz are belong to us! ;)

  14. #14 | Michael | August 17th, 2006 at 16:43

    Ich habe Netvibes zufällig gefunden und sofort ausprobiert und ich komme nicht mehr davon weg. Es begleitet mich jeden Tag und ohne Netvibes kann ich mir mein Firefox nicht mehr vorstellen. Daher hoffe ich das alles seinen Weg geht und Ihr bekommt jede Unterstützung von mir die Ihr braucht. Nochmals vielen Dank für Eure tolle Arbeit und ich wünsche Euch weiterhin viel Erfolg.

  15. #15 | cc | August 17th, 2006 at 17:35

    To the crew at Netvibes,
    I started using Netvibes because you supported Opera. Now, after using it for a while, I’m staying because of the excellent product that you have here, and the great support available to help sort out any little problems.
    Thank you Netvibes, you guys are great!

  16. #16 | Roberto | August 17th, 2006 at 18:06

    Netvibes rules!, not another homepage gets close to netvibes, they are the future.

  17. #17 | Bruno | August 17th, 2006 at 18:39

    I am proud of you guys!

    Netvibes represents the new look of the internet.

    =)

  18. #18 | Gabe Rodriguez | August 17th, 2006 at 19:06

    Congrats! Glad to hear how excited and committed your team is to bettering Netvibes. I think it’s a great product.

  19. #19 | Martyn | August 17th, 2006 at 19:42

    Yeeeesssss! Netvibes rocks! So pleased for you all! Keep up the great work and we will remail loyal to the best!

    Good Job!

  20. #20 | Andy | August 17th, 2006 at 19:44

    Best home page out there. Been using it for a year here. Just keeps getting better!

  21. #21 | Aziz | August 17th, 2006 at 19:49

    Thank’s Tariq for Netvibes; good work!

    good luck ;)

  22. #22 | Keith Peters | August 17th, 2006 at 20:18

    That is awesome. Netvibes rocks. Makes me think about developing something cool that someone will give me $15 million for! :)

  23. #23 | shie | August 17th, 2006 at 22:15

    netvibes made something, that for me at least, is one of the coolest web pages i’ve seen.

    keep up the good work.

  24. #24 | Deep | August 17th, 2006 at 22:25

    Congratulations on getting new financial support.

    I am already fan of netvibes and i hope this fund will result in enhancement of user centric utilities of netvibes.

    keep up the good work ;-)

  25. #25 | Peter | August 17th, 2006 at 22:36

    Hello to the netvibes-team!
    It’s a great pleasure to work every day with your comfotable plateform and i say thank you for your great work. My enterprise is launching a new website (adult education) and in the 2nd step after mai 2007 we will offer a personalized aera for our adult learners, teachers and alumni. We discussed if we want implementate parts of netvibes.com in our site. More later, probably next year …
    Kind regards, Peter

  26. #26 | Inbal | August 17th, 2006 at 23:09

    Wow, congratulations! Wonderful news, you definitely deserve it.

    Could you elaborate more on the translation tool? Does it require any technical skills? If not, I could try translating into Hebrew.

  27. #27 | david_nottingham | August 17th, 2006 at 23:14

    Congratulations on the investment opportunity. Hope you have suitably sore heads after the celebrations.

    Not sure whether this is the best place to request a feature upgrade. Like most people, I access several gmail accounts. One for me, and a joint one with my girlfriend. Although I’ve added the gmail widget to netvibes twice, one for each account, would it be possible to amend the widget so that each widget would log me out of whichever account I’m in at the time and log me into the other account?

  28. #28 | Steve | August 17th, 2006 at 23:50

    I am an internet junkie and I have tried ALL and I mean ALL the homepages and such out there. BELIEVE me you will not find any thing better tham Netvibes. You ARE the BEST!

  29. #29 | Tim Reader | August 18th, 2006 at 11:38

    hands down, this the best thing on the web right now. Well done guys.
    T

  30. #30 | Bart Claeys | August 18th, 2006 at 12:31

    Netvibes is the service I use most on a daily basis. It’s user friendly, no-nonsense and supports all major web services. It’s a great channel through which new services can be introduced (like box.net). Keep up the good work!

  31. #31 | Kurt | August 18th, 2006 at 13:38

    Congrats. Keep up the fine work.
    Using netvibes every day (and loooking forward for a german version)…
    ;-)
    greetings from austria,
    Kurt

  32. #32 | Ken Kuhl | August 18th, 2006 at 17:33

    Congratulations! Always nice when a deserving venture receives capital.

    I’m a Netvibes addict and look forward to the new features.

  33. #33 | Adrienhb | August 18th, 2006 at 20:58

    Excellente nouvelle et très méritée compte tenu de la qualtié de votre service.
    Mais reste tout de même une question que je ne m’explique pas: comment allez-vous faire pour rendre votre site profitable? Sans rentrer dans le secre des dieux, c’est surtout du point du vue de l’utilsateur que je me pose la question. Lorsque le site ne sera plus en beta, qu’est-ce que cela changera pour l’utilisateur?

    A.

    ps:
    Et juste histoire de titiller… à quand le blog en français (ou d’autres langues) à l’image de ce que vous prévoyez pour votre site? ;-)

  34. #34 | Steve Knowles | August 18th, 2006 at 21:17

    Glad to hear about the influx of funds because it means that Netvibes will continue to develop.

    I can’t imagine doing without Netvibes at this point. I’ve had a Yahoo account/page for years, plus a Google page (and many others over time, including ProtoPage). But Netvibes really does the trick.

    Very clean, efficient, effective interface …

  35. #35 | christopher rauch | August 19th, 2006 at 05:17

    ***

    gentlemen …

    i am an american. and, lamentably, i must congratulate you french guys! great job. keep it going. have you considered craigslist implementation? it is a BIG thing here in america.

    cheers. love the look, flexibility and feel.

    my kind regards to you.
    ~CR

  36. #36 | Olivier D. | August 19th, 2006 at 10:00

    Hi Tariq,

    Very nice !

    What is you business model ?

    Olivier.

  37. #37 | Tim Norton | August 19th, 2006 at 10:57

    Really good to hear this, good on you guys, look forward to some further discussion on localisation, defintely still keen to do it in this part of the world,

    cheers,

    tim.

  38. #38 | Don | August 20th, 2006 at 00:42

    Great to hear, so what you are saying is that I may actually get a response when I am locked out of my account making it inaccessible?

    A ticket was submitted and I have waited almost 3 months, and still can’t access any of the feeds I put on your site. Hopefully you improve your CS in the future, it really sucks to trust your data with a site, and due to a glitch on your end I have not been able to get back in, and have to re-create all my feeds from scratch.

  39. #39 | Tariq KRIM | August 20th, 2006 at 17:16

    thanks for all of your support, feedback, and suggestions. we’ll be working to implement many of these new features in the near future.

    also, i’d just like to reiterate that netvibes will remain free of charge.

    hi don– sorry to hear that. can you send us another message via the feedback form with the details of your problem? we will get back to you as soon as possible.

  40. #40 | Diogo Serra | August 21st, 2006 at 15:29

    Some time ago i send an e-mail to netvibes team, because some podcast that have the tag enclosure url type with audio/mp3 and with that type defined netvibes don’t show the listen and download buttons..

    Thanks for the help

  41. #41 | klonkr | August 21st, 2006 at 19:58

    it would be great if not all of the feeds refresh at the same time and if i could customize, how often a feed refreshes.
    maybe a restriction to only the actual tab.

    what about a tool to create rss feeds for sites that dont have own feeds?

    i love netvibes, its one of the best things that came with web2.0.

    thx for your work!

  42. #42 | Simon Nicholson | August 21st, 2006 at 21:27

    Congratulations on the investment. Netvibes has been my homepage for a long time now, so I’m glad you’re securing it’s future!!

  43. #43 | Litfaßsäule | August 22nd, 2006 at 11:36

    Some time ago i send an e-mail to netvibes team, because some podcast that have the tag enclosure url type with audio/mp3 and with that type defined netvibes don’t show the listen and download buttons..

  44. #44 | Litfaßsäule | August 22nd, 2006 at 11:39

    Hello to the netvibes-team!
    It’s a great pleasure to work every day with your comfotable plateform and i say thank you for your great work. My enterprise is launching a new website (adult education) and in the 2nd step after mai 2007 we will offer a personalized aera for our adult learners, teachers and alumni. We discussed if we want implementate parts of netvibes.com in our site. More later, probably next year …
    Kind regards, Peter

  45. #45 | Technophil | August 22nd, 2006 at 16:49

    I’m glad to see so many persons like Netvibes – since I discovered it a few months ago, it’s become my favourite start page, and I wouldn’t want to switch to any other service. The functionnalities are great, the look is nice, and it’s usually fast.
    I hope the new funding will help you improve this already excellent service : )

  46. #46 | failsafe | August 22nd, 2006 at 18:55

    yeah, you’re totaly worth it! It’s a very – VERY – great idea!!

  47. #47 | fernando | August 23rd, 2006 at 21:39

    im having problems using netvibes in Firefox… it stucks at the loading page… i dont know what else i should do… please help

  48. #48 | Jonathan Napier | August 24th, 2006 at 00:20

    I’ve just starting using it and I think it’s great, well done in securing funding, J

  49. #49 | XBoy | August 24th, 2006 at 09:51

    I just started to use Netvibes today, "WOW" is what I can tell. You guys make an incredible "Online Personalized Desktop" – What I name it! Work Hard on it….. as Netvibes is currently the best I tried compare with other similar system………

  50. #50 | Adam Livesley | August 24th, 2006 at 14:38

    Well done in securing funding!

    Just wondering though why do you need $15 million? Is only a online browser homepage, I cant see what you will spend the money on apart from after parties and new beasty machines!

  51. #51 | Régis | August 24th, 2006 at 16:00

    Excellent job, Tariq.

    Hopefully some bugs will be fixed with the process of rewriting the backend… I can’t keep waiting for this new version to come :o )

  52. #52 | lydia | August 25th, 2006 at 07:10

    just started using the site a few days ago and am completely addicted. keep up the fantastic work and congrats on securing the well-deserved funding!

  53. #53 | Rex | August 25th, 2006 at 18:22

    I tried netvibes for one day and loved it . The problem is now it doesn’t load and the feedbacks that I have sent have been bounced back to me !

  54. #54 | XV | August 25th, 2006 at 18:52

    Keep going, the wheel is turning. I hope you will succeed in making someone pay for the service.

  55. #55 | Miguel | August 26th, 2006 at 16:07

    That’s cool! Netvibe is an excellent page now! whit this i will be the best! i’m sure you can do it!
    Aguante netvibes!

  56. #56 | Fanch | August 26th, 2006 at 18:59

    Bonjour,

    depuis hier, ma page reste bloquée sur "loading…". Ca vient de moi ou de Netvibes ? J’ai essayé sous IE et FF, en enlevant les cookies.

  57. #57 | Fanch | August 29th, 2006 at 11:31

    Pb réglé par le support. J’avais un module défaillant (mais je ne sais pas lequel)

  58. #58 | il maistro | August 29th, 2006 at 16:05

    great job guys. Congratulations!
    ilmaistro.com

  59. #59 | webcache | August 29th, 2006 at 19:51

    Now Netvibes is my default page. I hope this project will continue.

  60. #60 | Antoine | August 30th, 2006 at 12:06

    BRAVO Tariq
    …et bonne chance pour la suite

  61. #61 | Stew | August 30th, 2006 at 21:53

    Congrats on the funding and thanks for doing such a great job. NetVibes has been my home page since I first learned of it 2 months ago.

  62. #62 | Philippe | August 31st, 2006 at 08:20

    Bonjour Tariq!
    Mais à quand une version en français de ce blog qui reste désespérément en anglais?

  63. #63 | Felipe Ribeiro | August 31st, 2006 at 19:14

    15 million dolars? How about get 1 dolar per click? =P
    Lol

  64. #64 | Damein | September 1st, 2006 at 19:27

    You deserve every penny of it! Great work!

  65. #65 | Oxiane | September 4th, 2006 at 13:02

    We love you !

  66. #66 | Shahid Shah | September 6th, 2006 at 16:18

    Congratulations and well done on such an excellently presented website.

    I stumbled across this site by accident and was hooked from day one. Microsoft is trying to do their alternative as part of their Live services…badly!

    No way, could they match your site. So, well done with the funding to keep this going.

    Godspeed.

  67. #67 | mike | September 8th, 2006 at 07:06

    please introduce a netvibes hosted email module. this way i dont have to leave my netvibes to read my mail.

    mike@netvibes.com sounds nice.

  68. #68 | Xenophon | September 8th, 2006 at 17:16

    If someone tried to build a module for Google reader, as it works on google Personnal home, it would be a great thing…

  69. #69 | TiBS | September 12th, 2006 at 06:52

    Vous dechirez tout!

    keep up the good work and thanks for the really great FAST&AD-FREE service!

    bonne continuation

  70. #70 | Matt | September 13th, 2006 at 17:13

    Netvibes kind of passed me by until very recently. I’ve only just started using it as an entry point for my web. The Google Instant Intranet is i suppose a corporate focused version of netvibes, although i have to say not half as good.

  71. #71 | XAMA | September 20th, 2006 at 13:46

    Seems nice but where is the user guide to get answers to this question : Why this is URL not added automatically ???
    http://www.insee.fr/fr/home/home...

  72. #72 | ryan | September 21st, 2006 at 16:21

    Is there any way to set it up so you can be logged in to multiple Gmail accounts at once? I have one I use for business purposes and a personal one also–so I set up two tabs, but unfortunately I’ve never been able to figure out a way to manage both of these at the same time. Let me know!

  73. #73 | makemyday | September 21st, 2006 at 16:42

    Good job!!!!

    Please put some of that money to work to make the export/backup of bookmarks possible.

  74. #74 | philippe | September 26th, 2006 at 10:08

    Since Writely changed its login/pass to match Google, the module doesn’t seem to be able to login. Is anyone having the same problem?

  75. #75 | Opo | September 27th, 2006 at 23:15

    Hi to all,
    is it a way to change background, modify coulours and shapes ?
    Thanks

  76. #76 | Eugene | September 29th, 2006 at 09:24

    unfortunately had some serious problems with netvibes lately…have firefox and googledesktop. For firefox the netvibes became inaccessible today – 403 forbidden get/no cash bla-bla-bla….

    not to mention that is slows down the browser dramatically

  77. #77 | Jimy | November 1st, 2006 at 12:10

    Glad to hear how excited and committed your team is to bettering Netvibes.

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