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Thursday 29 May 2008

Tariq Krim left Netvibes as CEO

By Stéphane on Thursday 29 May 2008, 02:55 - Web 2.0

Coincidence or not after the note posted on this blog yesterday, Techcrunch today announced the departure of Tariq Krim as CEO of Netvibes. Even if he keeps a non-operational role, it's a key date for the founder of one of the most successful French company in the Internet in recent years.

Having the chance to discuss quite often with Tariq, I really have seen in recent months that Netvibes was now definitly launched. Whenever we speak there were new contracts, beautiful signatures from many countries. Netvibes contrary to received ideas heard and thus earned money.

This is surely one of the parameters that Tariq encouraged to take this decision. Others related to its eternal desire to move forward on new projects also probably reinforced his choice to develop from today. Netvibes is stabilized with Ginger, the open source platform for widgets launched what he makes now? His new blog available here will surely in the coming days filled with posts will shed light on these new projects probably still applications where nobody ever try to go.

Good luck to Tariq, see you soon and thank you too!

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Tuesday 27 May 2008

Netvibes, time for a pause ?

By Stéphane on Tuesday 27 May 2008, 11:29 - Web 2.0

Ginger, the name of the latest version of Netvibes is now accessible to all users. Ginger gives a real social dimension and a participatory tool that can often compared with a business intelligence application by gathering at one point all the necessary informations to speed up decision-making through widgets.

Since its creation all the different versions of Netvibes have pushed the limits by changing our practices that we had on the Internet.

As the hyperlink in the 90's has disrupted the access to the Information, rich interfaces which allow to incorporate and customize its content, such as Netvibes, will be for everyone the means to transform the reader liabilities to active player and make the Internet more participatory and therefore richer.

Today in compiling the easy incorporation of widgets and social networks, Netvibes has crossed my mind to a real course since its creation. The site, despite a complex transition between Coriander and Ginger was sometimes down, is finding its "vitesse de croisière" functionally and technically. Perhaps, we suggest that developments will not be as powerful in the forthcoming months ahead to compile ideas for its development and that we will not immediately, I think, have the name of the next spice that Tariq and his teams have chosen.

Of course I would like Netvibes continues to grow up but after all these awards and all this work, we can say that everything went very quickly and eventually it may be time to stop a little in developing new apps. This period of stability of the application would be the ideal time to continue to grow let alone Netvibes at the option of the use of Netvibers.

A little "anecdote" that I have seen in writing this note, but that should not be innocuous the word "beta", which was in the footer disappeared beside Netvibes. A follow therefore while continuing to use Netvibes and visit the world of each other, here are some taken at random clicks (Tariq, Davos, Paolo Coehlo and a French singer Jean-Louis Aubert) and 10 tips to create one too !

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