netvibes - (re)mix the web

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We’ve been through a lot of things since we started this series of articles, but the part we are entering now is what will make a difference in your widget. Many widget are able to display public data, and others can display private data just fine, but being able to also publish data directly from […]

So far, this series of articles have focused on getting and displaying public data, like Twitter public timeline in the previous part of this series of tutorials.
Public data is what most of the current web services will let you play with, but the more interesting services are those that let you manipulate your private […]

The first part of this series saw us build a widget that displayed a single Twitter status. The second part built upon the first on, and expanded the widget to display the whole public timeline feed, all the while learning UWA techniques and good practices.
Techniques and best practices are the central elements of […]

This is part 2 of our series of articles on building a complete Twitter widget, all the while exploring the functionalities of UWA and learning some good practices of widget developing. If you haven’t already, read the first part, where we set up the basic widget code, and customize it to display a single, known […]

With the introduction of authentication methods in UWA (see the complete documentation) comes the ability to build some much more interesting widgets, ones that can access private data securely, both in read and write mode (HTTP GET and POST).
In order to present authentication to you, we’ve built a Twitter widget able to access your own […]

Two new functionalities have been added to UWA recently: the BlogWidget export and the authentication methods. This post presents the former, while the later will be presented in a forthcoming post... Even though UWA widget are by default able to be used in environments other than Netvibes (namely Google IG and the Apple Dashboard, for starters), [...]