Netvibes is teasing with previews of their social adventure

Written on December 8, 2007 – 2:17 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Just a few days from the private beta launch during Le Web 3 in the beautiful city of Paris, Netvibes is teasing its audience with some new screenshots of their social adventure: ginger. Tariq Krim published a blog post today, describing the new features that will make it possible to involve your friends in your personalized start page.

Netvibes Ginger Preview

It can basically be summarized in three steps:
- import your friends from other social networks, such as Facebook;
- track what widgets they’re adding, photos and videos they’re watching;
- create your universe, and show the world your social networks, Flickr photos and Twitter updates.

A personal universe can be an outcome for anybody who is not blogging, or capable of building his/ hers own homepage. Since it will be a place where you can present your on line identity in a rather spectacular way.

Personal universe

Krim promises us he’ll keep revealing more from ginger the coming days. If anything revolutionary happens, we’ll let you know. Moreover, we’ll travel to Paris to attend Le Web 3 and cover, amongst other interesting events, the beta launch of ginger.

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Feb 4, 2008: 100 private invites for Netvibes ginger after a night of partying
[...] kind as he is - 100 private invites for the beta version of ginger. 5,000 users already tested the social adventure of the personalized startpage service, now it’s time for the next group. We gladly accepted [...]

By Sjors on Dec 8, 2007 | Reply

The screen shots are looking damn shiny! Looks a bit like Myspace for the grown-ups :)

Than again I’ve already seen many websites who promise to create your outside identity to the digital world, and not many managed to impress me.. Nevertheless Netvibes has some really good cards for the game
By Patrick de Laive on Dec 9, 2007 | Reply

They have a large userbase already (15 million people). So that will give them a head start. When Tariq and co released their first version of netvibes back in november 2005 they had a totally new and innovative product/service with big appeal to the users. I’m expecting that they can impress us again with this ginger version.

Tariq said to me in Berlin (month ago) that Ginger is not one line of code the same as their coriander release. I guess this means that they are totally shifting to a new model. This might be because of competition from google reader, my yahoo etc.

Hope they can stay ahead of the curve.
By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Dec 9, 2007 | Reply

I also wonder if this new version will offer more social interaction. The previous versions were mainly focused on the single user experience. I hope they didn’t just add a standard social network feature but do something more special.