netvibes - (re)mix the web

Those of you have chosen to make the switch to Ginger (yay!) instead of staying with the older Coriander version (boo!) are surely now familiar with the Activities tabs, and its sections: My private activity, My public activity, and Friends activity.

The first one lets you keep track of the widgets and feeds you have added/removed […]

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 […]

We’ve seen how to switch to UWA pretty all available MiniAPI functionalities in this series’ previous articles. Now is the time to touch on functionalities that cannot be switch as-is, or simply put, that are not available in the stricter, more portable Universal Widget API.
One of the toughest of these is preferences. Sure, we’ve […]

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Netvibes was created as a way to gather all your digital life in one handy place, providing in-house for your most important digital needs: search, e-mail, to-do list, feed-reader, bookmarks & links, weather, calendar…
It quickly turned out that our users needed access to more digital content than we […]

Most of you must have received an invitation code to the Ginger beta now, wether thanks to your Ecosystem widget submission, or through any other general codes that could be found on various website in the past few weeks.
Finding the UWA Test module
Using the UWA Test module to test how a widget is doing […]

One question keeps coming up from people who have taken the dive and converted their module to a widget. It’s pretty simple, and represents an essential part of such conversion. This post will therefore be suitably short.
I’m done converting. It works. What’s next?
The “what’s next?” part implies a lot of questions, but mostly they are […]

Netvibes Ecosystem presently contains more than 200 000 items, among which some more 100 000 widgets - which can look a bit impressive to new UWA developers wanting to make their mark in there, and get their own widgets to many user-pages.
Fortunately, Ecosystem does not solely rely on a search engine to help users find […]

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 […]

The main idea behind this series of articles is, as you’d have guessed by now, to take over the MiniAPI tutorial and push it into the 21st century, kicking and screaming show how easy it can be to get the same effects in UWA. The most acute readers among you would have noticed that we […]

Here comes the high point of this series of articles, where all the bricks come together. During the first three parts, I’ve been banging one specific drum: whereas MiniAPI modules could be based on a multitude of inter-linked dynamic files, UWA widgets should really stick to one static file, and rely on Ajax requests to […]