Netvibes Developers blog

Update: there is now a definitive URL for the UWA cheat-sheet. With Ginger, we’ve improved a lot of things about Netvibes: not only the start-page itself and its relationship to the Ecosystem, but also internal components, among them not least being UWA. Among these was a small project that we knew was very useful within [...]

For the last couple of months, we’ve been preparing a few new cool things, and we are set to unwrap them all during the forthcoming Netvibes Meetup, organized in Paris this very friday. We will present new services and technologies, along with the release of our first Open Source components. This event is open to all Netvibes-fans, [...]

As you might have noticed by now, we have been redesigning all our web properties to new Ginger look, all the while expanding them with a couple new websites – read the blog post about it! Sites redesigns and launches In our own corner of the Netvibes-sphere, you can witness such new design everywhere : [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Update: there is now a definitive URL for the UWA cheat-sheet. Note: This post is about the preview version of the cheat-sheet. It has since been updated: you can read about it here. 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 [...]