Ginger: the new Netvibes

Netvibes is your new personalized startpage that brings together your favorite online services and applications.
Everything that you care about - blogs, news, weather, videos, photos, social networks, etc. - will be updated everytime you visit your page.
You can also share them with your friends or the rest of the world by creating your own public page.

What is Ginger all about?

One Private Page, one Universe

One private page, one Universe Create and personalize a netvibes Universe page just for yourself or publish one for your friends, family, everyone! A Universe is your very own personal dashboard that's updated live directly from all your favorite Web services (email, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, widgets) and media content (blogs, podcasts, video). Everything you enjoy on the Web, available at a glance, all in one place — spend less time surfing and logging in from site to site and more time enjoying your web, your way.

All your social profiles in one place

All your social profiles in one place Build your netvibes public page and share with your friends and family all that matters most to you on the web, all your internet profiles, your favorite photos, videos, stories — everything.

The perfect help for your social life

No more emailing links or bookmarking articles. Save or share anything you like on the Web automatically with the people you want with live timeline feeds of all your new favorite widgets, feeds, podcasts, photos and videos, articles and more.

Connection with your friends

A social netvibes Easily add friends on netvibes by inviting them or import them from Facebook, twitter, MySpace, Flickr, GMail and Yahoo! Then, for the first time, your entire Web, your Universe, becomes a shared experience everyday: see what your friends are doing, what they're reading or listening to, what their social networking activity is, their photo or video collections, etc.

The ability to create your own widgets

Be creative with your own universal widgets Any widget on Netvibes can be easily personalized with different looks, synced with your user accounts on different services (like your Flickr or MySpace) and instantly shared with your friends and family — live and synced on any browser, desktop or phone they use. (Or if you want to build one from scratch, developers can click here for information on how to build universal widgets on the netvibes open platform.)

Why netvibes is different

True personalization

It's your page. You and only you decide how to personalize it. No logos, no ads; full freedom.

The best content, the best widgets

The best content, the best widgets Add more than 100,000 widgets in a single-click — from free, full length CSI:NY episodes to games, feeds, news, videos, podcasts, Web radio, etc. Netvibes has partnered to offer official widgets from media companies such as CBS Interactive, CNET China Group, Die Welt, Le Figaro, New York Times and USA Today …

Publish your netvibes universe

Publish your netvibes universe Like CBS, USA Today, The Guardian, Beyoncé, Ben Harper and 1,000 others, create your own personal public media portal within minutes and share it easily with the rest of the world. Universes go far beyond just blogging by offering live, social content and widgets that viewers can remix to their liking.

Access from your mobile device or iPhone

Access from your mobile device or iPhone Access your personal page from your mobile or your iPhone and check out all your essential information on the go: email, todo lists, newsfeeds, calendars and all the favorite accounts and web apps you use everyday.

A truly diverse, global community

A truly diverse, global community Join an international community of netvibes users that have joined together to ensure the free flow of personalized content around the world. Because every one is different, and experiences the web in different ways, we created netvibes; because every country is different we have teams of thousands of community members that work to bring you the best from all other the world.

Real human-size support

Real humans, real support All support team will always be there for you. No automated messages or support bots.

New Ginger features

Ginger introduces social networking features to Netvibes, such as friends, profiles, status updates — but with a few new twists:

Timelines & History

Timelines & History Anything and everything you do online can be recorded on your public or private timeline. See what your friends are doing, what new widgets they've added, what new Universes they've published, what articles they're reading today or what videos they recommend — or simply save your favorite parts of the web permanently for yourself.

Social content

Universal Now anything feed, article, video, photo, song, widget, game — anything on your Netvibes — becomes part of a shared, social content experience. Netvibes has officially partnered with thousands of major media partners (including CBS, USA Today) to bring you primetime video and top branded content. Now, all of that content — and all content on the web — can be recommended, shared and discussed with friends on your Timeline. It's a completely new way to experience the entire social web, WITHOUT webpages, surfing, bookmarking, or manual sharing.

Universal

Universal Everything in Netvibes is now powered by the Netvibes UWA, meaning that all widgets are cross-compatible with OS X Dashboard, iGoogle, My Yahoo, Windows Vista Gadgets, the iPhone and other mobile platforms — and, by the public launch, Facebook widgets. Now you can add any widget from any platform to your Netvibes or vice-versa.

Self-Published Universes

Self-Published Universes Universes are media portals that contain your entire digital life. Until now, only premium partners (ie Newsweek) and celebs (ie. 50 Cent) could publish Universes. Now anyone can publish their own Universe. Going way beyond blogging, Universes enable any user to publicly showcase their Facebook and MySpace friends, Flickr photos, videos, music, favorite articles and widgets from mainstream content partners, all on one page that readers can remix and personalize to their heart's content. (All Universe content is automatically updated and synced live across Netvibes, mobile devices and all other major desktops and widget platforms.)

Simple, Sexy User Experience

Universal Completely redesigned and rewritten, Netvibes Ginger makes it easy for new users to enjoy a wide variety of social content, while enabling them to easily publish their digital lives, with a redesigned graphical widget and feed collection, ready-made tabs, channels and user communities.