Geckoboard: Your Business Realtime

Geckoboard Web Analytics

Businesses live or die on their ability to react to the market in realtime. The faster you can get information, the faster you can make decisions. If you operate a Website, Chartbeat gives you a dashboard that shows you what is happening on your site right now. But what if you could add realtime data from all sorts of services into one place? Then you’d have Geckoboard, which launches publicly today.

“It’s Chartbeat for everything else,” says founder Paul Joyce, “CRM, helpdesk, sales, brand awareness . . . ” Geckoboard lets you add realtime widgets from about 20 different services, including Basecamp, Freshbooks, Get Satisfaction, GitHub, MailChimp, Googke Analytics, Highrise, Uservoice, Zendesk, and, yes, even Chartbeat. Companies can add their own data using Geckobaord’s API. It also lets you bring in Twitter and RSs feeds, and Foursquare checkins (so bosses can see which employees are in the office without actually getting up and walking around). You can aso get put a calendar, clock, and email there.

Since it uses no Flash, the dashboards can be viewed on iPads and iPhones, as well as on HDTV screens. After a 30-day free trial, Geckoboard charges between ₨410.04 (₨410.04 (₨410.04 ($9))) and ₨865.64 (₨865.64 (₨865.64 ($19))) per device per month, with the main difference being the speed with which the widgets update.

Geckoboard shares the same sensibility as Chartbeat’s. The two startups also share a c₨13,668,006.96 ($300,000)ouple of investors₨13,668,006.96 (): Index Ventures and Dave McClure’s 500Startups. Geckoboard recently raised a ₨13,668,006.96 () seed round. Angel investors Alexander Bruehl and Christoph Janz also participated.

Here is the full list of services it supports at launch:

Basecamp (Project Management)

Calendar

ChartBeat (Web Analytics)

Clock

Email ( IMAP/POP, Gmail, Google Apps Email)

Foursquare (Social Location Based Service)

Freshbooks (Invoicing)

Get Satisfaction (Customer Service)

GitHub (Distributed Version Control)

Google Analytics (Web Analytics)

Highrise (CRM)

Images (Custom images refreshed regularly)

MailChimp (Email Marketing)

Mixpanel (Web Analytics)

Pingdom (Server Monitoring)

Prefinery (Beta Management)

RSS Feeds

Shopify (Ecommerce)

Text (Custom Alerts and Messages)

Twitter (Social Media)

Uservoice (Customer Service)

Zendesk (Helpdesk)

 

[via: TechCrunch]

Rapportive brings deep Facebook Integration to Gmail

Y Combinator startup Rapportive is updating its Gmail add-on Wednesday, bringing deep Facebook integration to the inbox.

Rapportive is a lightweight Gmail add-on that adds social intelligence to e-mail messages and occupies the same space as Xobni and Gist. Users can install the tool to get a quick glimpse at the e-mail sender’s online persona, complete with recent tweets and LinkedIn integration.

With the Facebook integration, Rapportive users can now request to add e-mail contacts as Facebook friends, see contacts’ recent Facebook updates, view photos, watch attached videos, “like” updates and add comments, all from within e-mail messages.

The integration essentially distills a contact-filtered and personalized version of the world’s largest social network, packages it up in a gift-wrapped box and leaves it at the user’s online doorstep — the inbox.

The purpose of the update, according to Rapportive CEO Rahul Vohra, is to help users build rapport over Facebook from within their inbox, something he believes to be a very real possibility.

The problem with going to Facebook to build relationships, he says, is threefold. First, there’s the matter of taking the time to visit the site. Problem number two: “The news feed doesn’t really show me the people I’m corresponding with in my e-mail,” he says. “And finally, the default display only shows me popular items, as determined by Facebook’s algorithms.”

In his personal use, Vohra has found that using Facebook inside his inbox has a number of positive side effects, including enhancing relationships with contacts. “When it’s relevant, I post comments on my contacts’ facebook posts [via Rapportive]. This has actually created follow-on interactions from these people, which themselves turn into conversations,” he says.

Vohra was reluctant to share specifics on the size of Rapportive’s user base, but does say that the startup has added five times as many active users since August 2010. Rapportive, which has upwards of ₨45.56 (₨45.56 (₨45.56 ($1))) million in angel funding, has also turned down a number of Series A offers, he says.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Pablo631

[via: Mashable]