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]

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Facebook Launches Deals Page on Site

Want to access nearby Facebook Deals using your web browser? Now you can, thanks to Facebook’s new “Find Deals on Facebook” page.

The page, which was launched last week, enables users to find local deals on a map, just as they would using Facebook’s official iPhone or Android apps, or by accessing touch.facebook.com on their mobile phones. Users can also browse deals in other neighborhoods via search.

The page does not appear to be well-integrated into the rest of Facebook.com, although we expect it will be soon. Integration on the Home tab would no doubt drive greater awareness among those who primarily access Facebook from their desktops.

Emily White, Facebook’s director of local, told the Wall Street Journal that since Facebook Deals launched in the U.S. in November 2010, “millions” of people have used the service, and more than 50% of merchants have elected to renew their offers. Facebook Deals went live in five European countries on Monday.

[via All Facebook]

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