Here’s a recent interview I did with Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini in the company’s San Francisco offices. Widgets (little pieces of code that bring in real-time data) are becoming increasingly important in the Web 2.0 world — to individuals, companies and organizations — and Netvibes has been an early pioneer in the field.
Netvibes provides widgets and personalized start pages to 2.5 million active users. You can access 146,970 different widgets — all free — in the Netvibes Ecosystem section. Many widgets have only a small, tightly focused readership, but others have broader appeal. For example, the Technology Review widget, featuring headlines and images that accompany recent articles, has had 657,077 installs. (If you’re logged into Netvibes, you can install it here.)
The interview was conducted with a Nokia N96 cell phone, and the quality is surprisingly good.
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JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
Good interview!
Here's another interview with Freddy Mini done by Social Nerdia. Freddy spoke about Netvibes, his role as CEO, expansion, blogging, and the future of social media.
Check it out at http://www.socialnerdia.com or directly at http://bit.ly/netvibesceo
Just on principle, I need to check out socialnerdia.com :~)