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Joining Wikio (and leaving Netvibes)

Wikio has just reached the 2 million users, only one year after launch. A well-designed, simple and efficient service, a relevant algorithm. Popular features like the meme tracker (enables to follow the discussion in the blogosphere) or the top blogs. A great shopping section providing, in a single place, all the information available over the web about each product. Only dedicated to hightech for now, but the catalog will be extended this summer with other types of products.

Wikio becomes also a RSS reader with the ability to create your own tabs , mixing RSS feeds and tags. All the relevant stuff are aggregated and sorted by Wikio. It’s a simple way to follow all your favorite feeds, without having to checking each one of them, as Netvibes allows it.

Thanks also to the great work of the Procab agency in Geneva (Christian, Vincent and David), Wikio is so simple that geeks disregard it but mainstream users like it

More than my full agreement with the concept of Wikio (both business / product standpoint), the ability to work with Laurent Binard and Pierre Chappaz was also a key point for me to join the team. I’d say, I’m also glad to work with Arnaud, Bertrand, Alexis. I met the whole team and it is a great team of almost 30 skilled professionals.

Netvibes was a wonderful experience. I’m proud to have founded the business team in Europe : Arduino, Maren, Marina and Raphael. Glad also to have collaborated with the US business team, managed by Freddy Mini and Chris Damsen. Together, we reached our goal : 500 universes (more than 100 french ones).

But, as we collectively reached our ambitious objective, I’m in a great mood for joining Wikio. I wish the Netvibes team the accomplishment of the both big challenges in the coming months : to convince the mainstream and find a way to earn revenues.

I’ll begin my job next monday as the Marketing Manager with Wikio.

For those who know me, I’ll stay based in my small village in Haute-Savoie, with view of Geneva and the Geneva Lake.

To get introduced or stay in contact : Linkedin and Xing profiles, email.

Related news : Pierre Chappaz announced he left Netvibes. Also available in French: J’ai décidé de quitter Netvibes