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A few weeks ago we changed our tagline to “Dashboard Everything” as our answer to the real-time Web.

Today we are very excited to launch the world’s first dashboard engine.

This new User eXperience reinvents real-time search by letting users simply enter in a topic keyword to instantly create fully featured, smart dashboards that automatically track all of the latest photos, videos, news, feeds, search results and Twitter conversations around that topic.

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We are bringing you here a video which does showcase all different types of dashboards you can create on Netvibes. Are you interested in Design, Photography or do you plan a trip to Tokyo? Netvibes is the tool you need in order to monitor, analyze and publish your favorite topics…
You will also notice in the video a new feature called “Dashboard it!” … it’s something we will release later this week and which will give you a new tool to quickly create dashboards just by entering a topic name.

We hope you’ll like it.

Netvibes Showcase from Netvibes on Vimeo.

I’d also like to thank our partners who did help us make this video happen. Thank you guys, you rock!

Video: Mattrunks | Sound: Sonacom | Project: Fubiz Interactive

At Netvibes, we’ve always taken a different approach to the way we look at our products and business model. We’ve rejected common notions, like you can’t satisfy both consumers and businesses. That you need to stamp your logo on every page to build brand awareness. That the only startup model is the ad model. And that in this economy, startups should think about survival instead of profitability.
Today, we’re proud to announce that Netvibes has achieved profitability, in line with the objective we publicly announced 18 months ago.

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What moves faster than the speed of light? The real-time Web.

Billions of tweets, comments, RSS feeds, chats, status updates, photos and videos are streamed from user to user, and then replicated and reposted infinitely over and over again–making those original bits defy physics by co-existing all around the world simultaneously–ultimately to reach out to you! Whew!

So how can we manage it all? Dashboard Everything.

When Netvibes first started, our motto was “(re)mix the Web“. It was about accelerating how people experience the Web by bringing together all of their favorite parts of the Web into one personalized place. The ultimate evolution of that led us to create Netvibes Wasabi–the ultimate dashboard for the real-time Web.

Netvibes Dashboards are way more than startpages. Our smart reader lets you view content like a live magazine or as a universal stream of everything that matters to you. Our “drag-and-follow” Twitter widgets let you quickly make new widgets to track new trending topics on the fly. Our push publishing in our Premium Dashboard offering and RSS acceleration technologies dramatically accelerate how quickly content is delivered to you. In short, Netvibes Dashboards are the best and only way to manage your entire real-time Web–not just Twitter or Facebook, but literally every single blog, photo, video, blurb and bit that you want to keep track of.

Our new motto reflects this evolution and is also the answer to how to manage the real-time Web: Dashboard Everything.

The first era of the Web was browsing organized directories (like AOL or Yahoo!). Then as the Web grew larger, we entered the era of search (like Google). But with the explosion of real-time streams, search isn’t enough. In this third era, dashboarding offers a new way to interact with the Web, where it all comes to you, automatically, instead of you going out to it. Netvibes Dashboards let you put all of those streams right into one convenient place, personalized by you and automatically organized, updated and delivered by us.

So how can you get started dashboarding? The Dashboarding Guide

We’ve organized more than 100 of the best tools out there for helping you get started monitoring, listening and analyzing the real-time Web. Monitoring tools like customized Google News search and Digg widgets help you track and keep up to date on topics that matter to you. Listening tools like Social Mention and Trendrr help you discover and follow trending topics. Analyzing tools like Twitter Sentiment and Compete Analytics help you dig even deeper by analyzing reputations and trend charts.

This is only the beginning. We’re counting on you to help us rate and review these tools, suggest new tools, and share stories about how you use Netvibes Dashboards in your daily life. In the future, we’ll have how-to articles, videos and more to help people learn how they can use dashboarding as a new way to tame the real-time Web.

It’s time to Dashboard Everything.

-Freddy Mini
CEO, Netvibes

Following the issue we had this Wednesday we have to schedule a downtime for this Saturday.

This will happen in 2 steps:

• at 9am UTC/GMT (1am PST) we will be offline for 2 hours. During that time we will have to move some databases around and we’ll also use that time to add some new servers to our backend
• at 11am UTC/GMT (3am PST) the site will be back but we’ll have to do a maintenance on our flags database. This means all your dashboards, widgets and feeds will be available but during that time all feeds will show as “unread” even if you already read them

Everything should be back to normal at 1pm UTC/GMT (5am PST).

We apologize for any inconvenience. Please let us know if you have any questions.

• The partnership will bring Netvibes’ widget platform to millions of mobile users across Europe, Middle East and Africa for the first time
• Content providers will have access to Orange’s 130 million mobile customers

Orange and Netvibes today announced a partnership to bring the world’s largest collection of mobile widgets to all types of mobile phone user across an extensive range of handsets. Netvibes’ huge catalogue of nearly 200,000 real-time widgets will be available on Orange widgets, a service featuring on 80% of handsets shipped by Orange. It will also be available on djinngo mobile, an Orange service open to any mobile phone user in the world. And soon, mobile widgets will be available to Orange customers in the recently launched Orange Application Shop

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After having covered those last weeks 3 Monitoring Tools for your Netvibes Dashboard and 3 Listening Tools for your Netvibes Dashboard we are going to conclude those posts with some analyzing tools.

Having said that, here are 3 free services which will allow you to turn your Netvibes into a powerful dashboard to gather some datas and metrics in order to better analyze and understand what people are saying about your brand or favorite topic. I hope you’ll like those videos.

If you know of more of such analyzing services don’t hesitate to share them with us in the comments.

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After having covered last week 3 Monitoring Tools for your Netvibes Dashboard today we are going to talk about listening tools. Whats is the difference will you ask me? Well, listening is more about classifying what’s monitored and retrieve the sentiment associated: positive, negative and trend over time.

Having said that, here are 3 free services which will allow you to turn your Netvibes into a powerful dashboard to listen what people are saying about your brand or favorite topic. I hope you’ll like those videos.
If you know of more of such monitoring services don’t hesitate to share them with us in the comments.

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Lots of you are using Netvibes with the existing widgets you can find in the gallery but do you know you can also use some of our tools to integrate services which don’t have widgets yet?

Here, I’m covering 3 free services which will allow you to turn your Netvibes into a powerful dashboard to monitor what people are saying about your brand or favorite topic. I hope you’ll like those videos.
If you know of more of such monitoring services don’t hesitate to share them with us in the comments.

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This week end it’s Valentine’s Day, time to declare your love to your partner! Don’t hesitate to share this lovely valentine theme with him/her ?