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Netvibes Ginger Opens To The Public; Potential For Widget Ad Network?
Allen Stern - March 3rd, 2008
Start page provider Netvibes launched their latest version, Ginger, into private beta last December. Today they take the wrapper off and have opened it up to the public. They are creating what I am calling a "social start page" by not just letting you determine what’s on your start page but your friends can influence the page as well.
Will Netvibes move into widget advertising as a network provider? I could see this type of ad play by Netvibes taking a step past other start pages including Pageflakes, iGoogle, MyYahoo and MyAOL.
Netvibes boasts 120,000 widgets including: Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Slide. Here is an example "universe" which is basically a page that you create and open to the public.
Hi W,
I head up biz dev in the US for Netvibes and would love to catch up with you and get your input.
Feel free to email me when you have a moment.
Best,
Chris
Allen,
Curious what you are thinking when you write “widget advertising as a network provide”. I host and track some Netvibes widgets that I’ve developed, some popular, some not. While studying the metrics, I’ve had some advertising ideas. Feel free to email me directly.
Cheers,
W