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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.