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Ginger’s new functionalities for UWA developers (part 1)

With the arrival of Netvibes Ginger, users can now have two sides for their Netvibes account: one private (the classic page), where users put their favorite and most useful widgets like e-mails, feeds, social networks, all to be seen by them only ; and one public (the Netvibes Universe), where the users will tend to […]

Setting your regions right in Ecosystem

Ginger is now open to everyone, and you can all see the new functionalities.
Among these is the integrated search: you don’t need to go to Ecosystem to find new cool stuffs to add to your personal page or your Universe, you can simply search Ecosystem and directly receive the corresponding list of feeds and UWA […]

Preparing for Ginger (part 1)

The gates are opening up, and a few thousand of people now have access to the beta version of Ginger, thanks to invite codes given out by many online publications and blogs (to name a few: Techcrunch, Wired, Facebook, GigaOm and others…).
If you are not one of the lucky guys, fret not: you are […]

Happy New Year to all our dear readers

I’m not really posting this at midnight (French time…), as you might guess, but that will not refrain me from wishing you a very merry new year - according to the Gregorian Calendar, that is!
Here’s to hoping we’ll see more and more cool UWA widgets in the coming 12 months, and ones that make us […]

Netvibes’ Facebook widget 4th most active Facebook external application

Last August, we introduced the Facebook widget, a concentration of tight JavaScript code which ties your Facebook profile to your Netvibes personal page, allowing you to view your Facebook notifications and friends.
Since then, it has proven to be one of the most successful external app in Facebook’s Desktop application directory, being 4th in both “Most […]

Uploading your UWA widget on other widget directories

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 […]

Preview: the UWA cheat-sheet

We’ve been working on a nifty new, much-needed document for you, dear developers : a all-in-one, printable, quick reference to UWA’s basic skeleton and JavaScript methodes/properties/events/extensions - in other words, what we call a cheat-sheet.
Hot off the press, we present you with the first iteration of this UWA cheat-sheet: grab the PDF file here!
Astute readers […]

UWA workshop at ParisWeb 2007 conference

The francophones among you will be happy to learn that our team is preparing a UWA workshop for the ParisWeb 2007 conference. ParisWeb is a young but very good parisian conference about Web standards, quality and best practices, and we are very proud to be part of it this year. The conference will happen on […]

UWA widgets now available on Windows Vista and Live.com

Remember a few weeks ago, when we announced that Netvibes worked perfectly on the iPhone through its mobile interface, and therefore UWA too? At the time, we promised a handful of announcement for the following weeks. Well, here we are.
Those of you who have witnessed the rebirth of Ecosystem, the Netvibes widget […]

We’re hiring!

To help us enhance the UWA widget technology and grow our widget platform, we’re currently looking for talented web developers. Check out those two profiles:

Web Developer: PHP/Javascript
Web Developer: Javascript

Please note that we’re reviewing and evaluating carefuly every applications, so even if you don’t match these precise profiles, don’t hesitate to apply!
Mail us at […]