I had a post concerning Netvibes that I was asked to delay posting until tomorrow. I apologize if there are any links to this post of comments.
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This is the year in which Europe will either fall apart or emerged stronger. I give it 75% that it emerges as a stronger union but the risk of collapse is still there. Germany has the key to solve the problem because of the size of its economy, its saving rate and its export volume. Germany has to decide on whether it continues to transfer some of its wealth in order to create markets for its exports or it let’s Europe fall apart and ends up with an overvalued currency and deteriorated markets. Already today it started paying negative interest rates which is a prelude in my view to a huge rise in the DM should it be born again. Tough choice. I think Germany can actually both save Europe and make money by buying underpriced Italian and Spanish bonds and selling them after stabilization. It can do what the FED did with many financial institutions, make a profit by providing much needed liquidity at a critical time.
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Posted by Jose del Moral - March 21, 2006 9:21 pm - #
This is the OPML file of our Top 100 Spanish blogs:
http://www.alianzo.com/ranking-blogs/ranking.opml
Posted by Angel - March 21, 2006 9:58 pm - #
I have to disagree with you Martin. The people at Netvibes may know what users want, but I’m not the user they’re thinking about. The whole stuff is a geeky, bulky, overcrowded, ugly page.
Definitively not for the mass market. And I assume this is something YOU care about, now that you’re an investor…
Posted by Anonymous - March 21, 2006 10:03 pm - #
And Exporting OPML files, when? from netvibes to my pc desk.
Posted by Misho - March 21, 2006 10:18 pm - #
May be you can give http://www.pageflakes.com a try and see if it stands out of the crowd.
Posted by Franck Mahon - March 22, 2006 1:25 am - #
Anonymous> Already possible.
Add content>My Feeds (click on the blue arrow on the right)>Export to OPML
Posted by ouriel - March 22, 2006 10:30 am - #
we just published it on techrunch….
Posted by Amir - March 22, 2006 10:41 am - #
Martin, the news are out on Techcrunch:
“Netvibes to Announce Seed Financing Today
Netvibes, a very popular Ajax home page product that I said was a Web 2.0 Company I couldn’t live without, will announce seed funding by Index Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Pierre Chappaz (founder of Kelkoo and Wikio) and Martin Varsavsky (founder of Jazztel, Ya.com and Fon). The size of the round was not disclosed.
Over a million home pages have been created on Netvibes, and the service is available in a ton of languages. They are working on an API now that will allow for third party widgets to be created as well.
Netvibes is headquartered in Paris and London.”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/22/netvibes-to-announce-seed-financing-today/