The other day, I posted briefly about the iGoogle presonal homepage service I use and it made me wonder abotu usage of other similar service such as NetVibes. TechCrunch UK has a post of earlier in the week that answers my questions.
- 2 years of operation, 25m unique personalisation pages. 69 countries.
That’s pretty impressive – 25 million personal pages. I wonder how active they are?
NetVibes have also just announced a “social widgets platform they have dubbed ‘Ginger’” – which looks very interesting. Here’s a little more on the story from the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin from TechC UK:
What’s next?
Netvibes has been a personal start page for a long time. A question we ask is we could try to be a social network. But we can’t do that, it’s too late. So what about tapping into an existing social network?Netvibes + UWA + social APIs = Social Widgets everywhere
The full story is here and below is a diagram that explains the ecosystem.
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Mike // 16 November 2007 at 2:35 pm |
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/netvibes.com+digg.com+facebook.com/?metric=uv
dylanfuller // 16 November 2007 at 2:41 pm |
Thanks Mike, for the link to the stats on Compete. A lot lower than the user numbers reported by NetVibes. I guess this difference is based on the sample size that Compete uses – the Facebook number is also lower than the general stats that getsreported.