http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/

Those graphs don't really make much sense because such a dashboard is going to be context-sensitive. You would need to somehow customize it to give you the information that would be relevant to you, your team, or whomever.

I love how when I search for a place on Google Maps, my phone or tablet assumes I want to go there soon and gives me a driving time estimate and an option to start navigation.

I also find it very useful when my web searches and linked accounts are taken in context: searching for a flight brings up the flight details on the day of the flight, and Google Now automatically pulls up my daily upcoming events so I don't forget.

Luckily I use it as an excuse to get my head down and work.

But the point (another long one!?) is iPhones UI whilst much lauded, misses some useful functionality - and that will become more more painful as relevance becomes achievable

I'd be interested to see a startup go for the relevance idea, but I don't think they would have the data needed to do it.

Whilst these days I can barely tell you what season it is, I was more in tune with the weather then (not nature, too treehuggy)

I think my overly long point is to agree with you - I had no dashboard for weather info, but because it was part of my daily environment I knew what was normal and sensed changes.

Dashboards are exceptionally useful, you just probably haven't come across the need for one. They automate the task of needing to flip through webpages and jump through CLI commands to poll for the system status, whatever that system happens to be. You can argue that there shouldn't be a need to poll in the first place, but that's the nature of things - for one, looking at the raw data is interesting, and for two, the alerting logic may miss exceptions that are otherwise obvious from a quick glance.

I wish :'(

Either that or I'm assuming wrongly that because the demo is reading my location and localising the time, it would also be reading the weather.