This blog entry is a repost from Netvibes’ blog.

If you’re a fan of music, indie films and emerging technologies, Austin will definitely be the place to be in the forthcoming days. Between March 8 and 17, the capital of Texas will hold the famous South by Southwest (SXSW) conferences & festival. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW is the premier destination for discovery.

Can’t make it to Austin? Not a problem: we’ve got you covered. To make sure you won’t miss a thing, we’ve set up a comprehensive Live Dashboard gathering all the relevant info in one single place, including:

• social networks monitoring (Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etc.)
• blogs
• movies & pictures
• agenda
• exhibitors and sponsors profiles
• and more…

Like with every Live Dashboard, Netvibes will give you access to the advanced tools only available with our Premium Dashboards, like SmartFilters and Analytics. With our latest apps (like Social Search), easily keep up with all the news and announcements and don’t miss a single bit of info about SXSW. Follow the event from your desktop, on your mobile phone or in your couch.

Also featured on the Live Dashboard, you will find Dassault Systèmes’ contribution to SXSW through the Giza3D project demonstrating jointly with Harvard University how 3D Experiences are pushing their way into the classroom as a new kind of learning medium. If you will be attending SXSW, here is more details about the time and venue.

Dassault Systèmes will also cover SXSWi (Interactive), follow @Dassault3DS and upcoming blog posts on 3D Perspectives for more! And of course, follow @netvibes on Twitter too!

Check out the SXSW Live Dashboard now! http://sxsw.netvibesbusiness.com/

As I was listening at reactions following our recent acquisition of Netvibes, some of you wondered about the rationale behind it as well as how well Netvibes could fit in our existing portfolio. So I seized the opportunity to meet with Freddy Mini (CEO, Netvibes) during SolidWorks World 2012 event last week in San Diego to ask him a couple questions 

1. Who/what is Netvibes (as a company and as a product, since they share the name)
2. What are the underlying technologies of Netvibes (06:52)
3. How does Netvibes complement 3DSwYm and Exalead (08:28)
4. How does Netvibes fit in a typical product innovation process (12:05)

If you would like to see Netvibes in action, you will want to watch this:

So, what do you think? What should have asked? Feel free to leave a comment.