New ginger update and 1000 invites for readers

New Ginger,the next release of Netvibes, has couple of new features and bug fixes.

What's new on ginger ?

1. Activities Widget : Just like the twitter and facebook widgets, you can check what your friends are up to with one handy widget. It also allows you to change your status to quickly answer your friends. To add it, simply drag'n'drop your avatar from your Profile to your page.

2. Search your activities stream : New way to explore your activities with a search engine. Simply type a keyword and all the matching events will show up. It's now easy to find a link or a message again.

3. Find your facebook friends that are already on ginger : Cool way to find your facebook friends, but also look into your gmail, twitter, yahoo, ... Finding your friends on ginger should be an easy and fun experience.

4. Ginger goes mobile : Launched last year, the mobile and iPhone versions are now ready for Ginger. All Netvibes Ginger users can now access their accounts from http://m.netvibes.com/ and read their feeds on the go.

 
Apart from these new features. there are also lots of bug fixed. Here is a list of the bugs that are now fixed:

• General
  • Settings were not saved
  • "Back to contacts" button issue on Safari
  • Flash audio player fix
  • Feed reader read/unread lost status fix
  • Feed reader right-click bug fix
  • Sign-in on Internet Explorer 7 improvements
  • Safari 2 authentication improvements
  • Feed reader "Right to Left" improvements
  • Loading behavior improvements

• Add content
  • "Add content" empty categories
  • "Add a feed" issues with Safari
  • OPML import/export fix

• Universes, Contacts and Activities
  • Universes are now available on Safari browser
  • Universes feed reader improvements
  • Activities ATOM/RSS output improvements
  • Friends/Followers back button improvements
  • "Send to my universe/Send to my private page" feature improvements
  • GMail friends import fix
  • AIM friends import fix
  • Activity feed special characters fix

• Widgets
• Improvements: Weather, Web page, Web note, Todo list, iCalendar, Bookmarks, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Hotmail, AOL Mail, Craigslist, Flickr, Picasa, Last.fm, Box.net, Youtube, Dailymotion, Flash, Web search, Map search
• Premium widgets improvements
• Widgets behavior on Opera browser improvements
• Widgets missing feeds fix
• Widget drag & drop featured fix

1,000 invites are available as of now: GINGER4U. Copy-paste this code and use it on ginger.netvibes.com.