Netvibes

Netvibes (delivery) is a Portail Web French personnalisable, representative of what is called the Web 2.0. It is launched the September 15th 2005 by a Startup of the same name based with Paris and London rested by the French Tariq Krim and Florent Frémont.

Presentation

Netvibes offers to its users a personal Web site consisted miters pages. This site is, with all fine practice, a gate individual Web which gives access to a multitude of services. Each service is presented in the form of a block.

The banner page of this site breaks up into modules, represented graphically by blocks (right-angled). Thanks to the use of AJAX, the user can very simply reorganize his page by moving, removing or adding blocks.

Netvibes does not propose any clean contents but incorporates the contents coming from other sites. For this, it is pressed on the standards which are RSS, Atom and iCal, which makes it possible to integrate the contents of any site publishing of information in these formats. Specialized modules were developed to increase the integration of the particularly popular sites (Gmail, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Myspace, Facebook…). One can also add to it modules preprogrammed such as the weather, an account favorite email POP or his .

As much of other applications Web 2.0, Netvibes was launched in version béta and is always. It is thus always in evolution. New services arrive regularly on the site. These modules comprise sometimes bug S which are then announced by the users.

In addition to the gate accessible to all, the team of Netvibes publishes a Blog where the innovations of the service are announced and a Wiki being used as place of exchange between the users and the development team.

Netvibes received the special price of the jury of the 9th Clic of gold in June 2006. In 2007, Time Magazine regards it as one of the 50 best sites of the year.

Application program interface of Netvibes

Netvibes publishes the March 3rd 2006 a Application program interface (API) making it possible to the programmers to produce their own modules. These modules are connected with minis Web sites lodged on waiters independent of those of Netvibes. Several new modules available, are quickly listed on the official site or third sites.

This interface was entirely re-examined in March 2007, and was re-elected Universal Widget API (UWA). The Widget S conceived with non-seulement function on Netvibes, but also of other platforms, among which IGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera…

Netvibes Ecosystem

In May 2006, Netvibes put in line Netvibes Ecosystem which consists of a great database to which everyone can contribute, container:

the list of all the Netvibes modules available, classified by category;
a directory of flow RSS;
a directory of Podcast S ;
of the miters created by the users gathering several flows RSS or podcasts covering same subjects;
of the whole of events which you can add to your Netvibes calendar.

History

In competition with Google (with IGoogle, launched in May 2005) or Microsoft (with Live.com) on this segment of the banner pages personnalisables, Netvibes became in hardly more than one year, according to Feedburner, the third site of reading of flow RSS in the world.

During one year, from June 2006 in July 2007, Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and Wikio, the company Co-directed, with Tariq Krim, helping with the launching of the site.

After one year and half of existence, about thirty people work on Netvibes.

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