netvibes - (re)mix the web

Not everyone knows it, but you can access and control the internal podcast player using UWA - and we’ll show you how in this very article.

The example used here is the excellent Web Radio Player widget, built by Maurice Svay and which lets you play audio streams in MP3 format from the renown ShoutCast service.

When […]

The Paris-Web 2007 conference is now over, and we can take the time to let you know how the workshop went - and to give you access to the live material.
The whole Paris-Web conference was a real pleasure to attend and to participate in, filled with passionate people on both sides of the auditorium. In […]

Having the ability to get your widget to work on many platforms is one excellent thing, of which we are very proud, but we are also aware of the fact that most users of a given platform look for widgets on that platform’s central widget repository/directory.
Even if Ecosystem is the best place to submit […]

There are many applications out there that would be useful to Netvibes users - and UWA users in general, but whose developer chose to use Flash instead of relying on easy-to-parse standards or easy-to-implement Web services. As highlighted in our post about the new Netvibes Ecosystem, logged-in users can now directly submit the URL of [...]

Ben Colon is one of the first Netvibes modules developers - indeed, his Ecosystem ID is simply 1, you can’t get smaller than that Over the years, he has built a good number of MiniAPI modules. Since the deprecation of MiniAPI last July, he has started working on converting his MiniAPI modules into Universal […]

As you might have noticed by now, we like to take advantage of recent submissions to Ecosystem in order to spotlight one particular use of widgets in general, or of UWA in particular. The point being to show the wide array of possibilities that a widget or a Netvibes tab can have.
This is especially the […]

These days, thanks to the constant improvement of mapping services, it’s easier than ever to find your way home (or to that faraway party). UWA widgets help you a bit further. See, with mapping web services blossoming and opening up with APIs, our Ecosystem has seen its share of useful widgets making use of these. […]

The cool thing about seeing the UWA community blossom, is to witness developers’ passions and interestes, which translate into cool, funny, creative or downright necessary widgets. Developers can use the DevNet forums to showcase their widgets, and we’ll now try to give our favorites a little popularity boost on this blog.
The latest example of a […]

As you might have noticed, the Ecosystem (Netvibes widget directory) has seen a major overhaul, certainly the biggest since it was created. Both front-end (what users see) and back-end (what administrators see) have been rewritten, and while there are still some quirks to iron out, we’re already very proud of it.
We already wrote about it […]

Netvibes’ recent announcement of an improved mobile version together with a special edition specially designed for iPhone users, is also good news for UWA developers.
During the iPhone presentation by Apple’s Steve Jobs, he famously made it clear that this new product would not require any SDK, but rather Ajax. While it was a shocker for […]