Comments on: Netvibes Five Million Users & Counting http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:19:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Netvibes Grows Up - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-857574 Netvibes Grows Up - GigaOM Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:43:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-857574 <p>[...] The three-year-old company, which has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco, aims to begin monetizing its technology through a widget advertising platform, and through the creation of customizable web [...]</p> [...] The three-year-old company, which has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco, aims to begin monetizing its technology through a widget advertising platform, and through the creation of customizable web [...]

]]> By: matthew http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65149 matthew Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:54:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65149 <p>i feel like netvibes is missing the big market trend here. instead of billing their service as a personal start page (or a glorified rss reader, as some would claim), they should bill it as something more social--a page that your friends visit, focusing on widgets that promote sharing of content/media (photo albums, videos, blog entries, music, etc.). that's what consumers want, as demonstrated by myspace. btw om, i liked the article in business 2.0, keep up the good work.</p> i feel like netvibes is missing the big market trend here. instead of billing their service as a personal start page (or a glorified rss reader, as some would claim), they should bill it as something more social–a page that your friends visit, focusing on widgets that promote sharing of content/media (photo albums, videos, blog entries, music, etc.). that’s what consumers want, as demonstrated by myspace.
btw om, i liked the article in business 2.0, keep up the good work.

]]> By: Steve E http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65148 Steve E Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:36:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65148 <p>I like Netvibes, I use it as my homepage and it does the job very nicely. I was a MyYahoo fan for many years but switched when I stopped using Yahoo mail.</p> <p>Netvibes does the job very nicely, it's simple to use and fits enough feeds for me without becoming too cluttered. Agree with the person above who said that perhaps they should only display new content (rather than still showing greyed out links).</p> <p>As for how they will monetize it, well thats a very good question and I too wonder what the VC's are expecting. Either advertising or possibly charging content providers to be included, or even having unique content that users may want to pay for? I don't know, but while it does the job for me I'll continue to use it!</p> I like Netvibes, I use it as my homepage and it does the job very nicely. I was a MyYahoo fan for many years but switched when I stopped using Yahoo mail.

Netvibes does the job very nicely, it’s simple to use and fits enough feeds for me without becoming too cluttered. Agree with the person above who said that perhaps they should only display new content (rather than still showing greyed out links).

As for how they will monetize it, well thats a very good question and I too wonder what the VC’s are expecting. Either advertising or possibly charging content providers to be included, or even having unique content that users may want to pay for? I don’t know, but while it does the job for me I’ll continue to use it!

]]> By: Ivan Pope http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65147 Ivan Pope Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:10:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65147 <p>'Krim says his company now has five million active users and growing fast' But maybe not as fast as it was. In March 2006 TechCrunch reported that 'Over a million home pages have been created on Netvibes' (http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/22/netvibes-to-announce-seed-financing-today/) In June 2006 Nial Kennedy references Tariq quoting four million users, 'Netvibes has amassed over 4 million users in its first 9 months of operation' (http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/06/netvibes-4-million.html) This month the number is five million from Tariq's own mouth (above). So: 1 million in the first six months (average 166,000 per month) Then it jumps to around 1 million new users in April and over 1 million new users in May to get to 4 million in June. Then, inexplicibly, it slows right down, because over the next three months, they only add another 1 million users.</p> <p>It looks very strange on a chart. Either the numbers they are quoting are wrong - or their growth is slowing down. Wonder which it is?</p> ‘Krim says his company now has five million active users and growing fast’
But maybe not as fast as it was.
In March 2006 TechCrunch reported that ‘Over a million home pages have been created on Netvibes’ (http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/22/netvibes-to-announce-seed-financing-today/)
In June 2006 Nial Kennedy references Tariq quoting four million users, ‘Netvibes has amassed over 4 million users in its first 9 months of operation’
(http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/06/netvibes-4-million.html)
This month the number is five million from Tariq’s own mouth (above).
So:
1 million in the first six months (average 166,000 per month)
Then it jumps to around 1 million new users in April and over 1 million new users in May to get to 4 million in June.
Then, inexplicibly, it slows right down, because over the next three months, they only add another 1 million users.

It looks very strange on a chart. Either the numbers they are quoting are wrong - or their growth is slowing down. Wonder which it is?

]]> By: Nick http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65146 Nick Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:02:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65146 <p>I agree with Ole. I for one am one of the presumably thousands of users who hear about the site via digg/gigaom/techcrunch/etc register to check it out and then abandon my account after a couple of days (not because the service is bad or anything, rather I have no need for it). Im hoping the '5 million users' is indeed active users and not the number of registered users on file.</p> I agree with Ole. I for one am one of the presumably thousands of users who hear about the site via digg/gigaom/techcrunch/etc register to check it out and then abandon my account after a couple of days (not because the service is bad or anything, rather I have no need for it). Im hoping the ‘5 million users’ is indeed active users and not the number of registered users on file.

]]> By: Ole Brandenburg http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65145 Ole Brandenburg Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:24:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65145 <p>I would really like to know the exact definition of "5 million users". Is it signups (registrations), visits/month, visits/week, etc. Is it people who regulary use the site on a daily basis? Just don't like this vague definitions that much - those terms are almost used in an inflational sense. Makes you wonder.</p> <p>Cheers Ole</p> I would really like to know the exact definition of “5 million users”. Is it signups (registrations), visits/month, visits/week, etc. Is it people who regulary use the site on a daily basis? Just don’t like this vague definitions that much - those terms are almost used in an inflational sense. Makes you wonder.

Cheers
Ole

]]> By: Chris http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65144 Chris Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:39:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65144 <p>I do agree with Mike, with more than 20 feeds Netvibes is very slow. On Digg I discovered last week Webwag.com, far more efficient on that point. I heard their audience is skyrocketing, and Alexa shows that are close to reach PageFlakes already. Webwag CEO is the former Google France boss and claims a few business models…worth following</p> I do agree with Mike, with more than 20 feeds Netvibes is very slow. On Digg I discovered last week Webwag.com, far more efficient on that point.
I heard their audience is skyrocketing, and Alexa shows that are close to reach PageFlakes already. Webwag CEO is the former Google France boss and claims a few business models…worth following

]]> By: Ted http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65143 Ted Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:09:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65143 <p>I have a netvibes account and a protopage account. Netvibes is better in almost every way except for the fact that on protopage I can read multiple feeds in one box. I don't understand why netvibes doesn't create something like this.</p> I have a netvibes account and a protopage account. Netvibes is better in almost every way except for the fact that on protopage I can read multiple feeds in one box. I don’t understand why netvibes doesn’t create something like this.

]]> By: Mike Lewis http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65142 Mike Lewis Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:45:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65142 <p>I was a heavy netvibes user, but once you get over 20 or so feeds, it becomes unusable. I've recently switched to newshutch.com which handles many feeds much more simply and gracefully by only showing what hasn't been read. Netvibes has more modules, but for straight rss reader, i could see it getting eaten by giants and other readers.</p> I was a heavy netvibes user, but once you get over 20 or so feeds, it becomes unusable. I’ve recently switched to newshutch.com which handles many feeds much more simply and gracefully by only showing what hasn’t been read. Netvibes has more modules, but for straight rss reader, i could see it getting eaten by giants and other readers.

]]> By: Paul http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65141 Paul Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:20:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65141 <p>With Netvibes it's not surprising to see that they manage to grow its user base to this number… It's really useful for one. And if you are able incorporate more of the well known services api into it. They will do very well. </p> <p>Only worry is just how they are going to make money eventually. Ads sales again… I wonder. Wonder what's the expectations of the VCs for them. :P</p> With Netvibes it’s not surprising to see that they manage to grow its user base to this number… It’s really useful for one. And if you are able incorporate more of the well known services api into it. They will do very well.

Only worry is just how they are going to make money eventually. Ads sales again… I wonder. Wonder what’s the expectations of the VCs for them. :P

]]> By: Read/WriteWeb http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65140 Read/WriteWeb Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:59:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65140 <p><strong>Netvibes claims 5 Million users…</strong></p> <p>Man about town Om Malik bumped into Netvibes CEO Tariq Krim at the The Future of Web Apps conference in San Francisco. Tariq told Om that Netvibes now has 5 million users, so naturally he is very optimistic of its…</p> Netvibes claims 5 Million users…

Man about town Om Malik bumped into Netvibes CEO Tariq Krim at the The Future of Web Apps conference in San Francisco. Tariq told Om that Netvibes now has 5 million users, so naturally he is very optimistic of its…

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65139 John Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:30:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/09/15/netvibes-five-million-users-counting/#comment-65139 <p>"What would make them different form others?" They have won the style / usability stakes by a country mile. If they only had the sever grunt of the ugly Google and improved MS.</p> “What would make them different form others?”
They have won the style / usability stakes by a country mile.
If they only had the sever grunt of the ugly Google and improved MS.

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