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Thanks Jeff! It did cost us some sweat and blood to get right, but Twilio's API is a joy to work with. Connect looks awesome, not sure how we missed it, will investigate and probably migrate.

Not supported at the moment :(

We've started by building something to fulfill our needs, and responsiveness wasn't in the list for a first version.

Some logic is ran on browser resize, but the grid itself is not resized.

We'd love to add it to future releases!

There is a "top gravity" attracting widgets towards the top end of the grid. It's the only supported auto-layout feature currently.

We'd like to allow different strategies in the feature, we just started by the one we needed.

Sure, it's licensed under MIT :)

We built it for our own product, Ducksboard. Users can build their own metrics dashboards by adding widgets and arranging them as they like.

That's the use case: being able to arrange/sort a set of widgets by dragging and dropping them in an grid. Puzzles, dashboards, image collections, think of any thing built of visuals elements where order counts.

Oops, no Mountain Lions around, was tested and worked ok on Lion's Safari.

Will have a look at what can be done, thanks :)

You actually can.

Have a look at the serialize() API method, as well as the serialize_params options attribute.

It's what we use at Ducksboard to let users arrange widgets in their dashboards.

When the mouse pointer gets close to the bottom of the viewport while dragging an element we scroll the document. Columns are not scrolled on their own, since the whole grid is a "block".

We built it because jQuery sortables were limiting us to use separate columns, which couldn't handle "wide" (more than 1 column in width) elements.

Sorry for the wrong link, we fix it right now!

Hi there.

The only current integration of the tool is Ducksboard, where we use it to handle widgets arrangement.

The documentation is pretty extensive anyway, it should be easy to integrate anywhere.

Don't worry, it's not a real key, just a random one following Mailchimp's key conventions :)

Yes, email us there :)

This is something many people have been asking for, and we always listen to what people say :)

The feature is in design phase, we're pretty close to implement it. Expect to see it landing in the next few weeks.

Hi manveru.

Your username (email) in Ducksboard would help us track down the problem.

You can create a support ticket using the application's menu "Support" option to handle this communication and future question we may need to ask.

Of course! Even if I don't have an ETA to give you right now. We're adding many new services per month, prioritizing based on users requests.

We don't send email confirmation on signup. If you didn't see some error in bold red letters, you're set :)

Depending on the Android version and browser you're using, the webapp won't work properly. It's working on Android 3 and 4 stock browser, as well as Chrome Beta. Some browsers on Android 2 are compatible as well, like Firefox beta last time I had a look. Let us know which is your setup and I'll be able to give you more insight.

As for the rate limiting, we don't limit at the moment. If you really have a lot of data you want to push, let us now first so we can take action if needed to increase our capacity. Until now no limiting has been needed, and some users have been pushing a lot of updates for some months now.

The widgets layout is one of the fields we're trying to improve next.

The UX guys are looking for a way to keep it user-friendly while allowing power users to have more control over the layout.

More news on this topic soon!

Hi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard.

We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard.

* As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their data sources. We don't just visualize it, but we store it in our databases. This enables us to provide historic charts and other goodies.

* We make a strong focus on realtime as well, using WebSockets to push updates to the frontend as soon as they're available in the backend. I don't think they're going this far.

* The visual part is just a matter of taste, each one has a very particular style. We actually prefer ours :)

* And from today, our APIs allow handling your data and dashboards without a need to actually use the web frontend. This can be pretty useful in certain integration scenarios.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask.

We are in a closed beta, the final product will require a monthly fee. People participating in the hackathon with funny ideas will get a discount though.

The plans will be announced as soon as we feel the product is ready for daily use, which we expect to be really soon.

A new homepage is coming. We'll try to make it clearer this time.

Hm, we fallback to a Flash implementation of the WebSocket protocol when using a non-compatible browser, IE9 included.

Could it be that you don't have a Flash-enabled IE?

We provide a write API where customers can send their own data. Any existing widget can be used to display those values.

Custom widgets are currently our top priority.

Expect it to land in the next few weeks.

For people asking for an invite, this is how we are going to share them:

1. The first batch goes to close friends. This is not favoritism, we just feel more comfortable sharing the rough edges with them :)

2. The second batch will go to people who helped us validating and testing.

3. Lastly, we will provide invitations on a first-come/first-serve basis (you can subscribe from the site's sign up form).

We will give out the invites as fast as we can… but be patient!

Hi, glad to hear you liked it.

To answer your question, our main assets are:

  * real time and continuous (even when the user is not connected) data retrieval.
  * a very polished UI.
  * mail reports and XLS and other formats exports in a near future.

How well does the {{}} syntax coexist with server-side template languages like Django's one which uses the exact same marker for placeholders?

We think we fixed the issue for real this time. If you step on any other bug, please let us know :)

Yeah, I'm responsible for the bug :P, we rollbacked the broken update and will look at it later.

The initial services we are going to integrate with are the usual suspects:

  * Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare for social marketing
  * Google analytics for website traffic data
  * Zendesk for user support
  * Mailchimp for mail campaigns
  * Bit.ly to track urls
  * Highrise CRM
  * Google AdWords and AdSense

As the product grows and the users propose new services, we'll integrate them.

On top of that, we'll provide a HTTP API to provide your own metrics.