Klipfolio dashboard – the, which lists all your Business data

Most companies and blog owners love to keep pace with their data as Analytics, marketing/sales/revenue, Adsense earnings, etc. Unfortunately, it's a pain to have to sign and from these data sources on the Web, in addition, it is rather time consuming, if you do this several times a day. Klipfolio dashboard aims to be a solution for this and allows you to organize all these data in a single dashboard Web site.

On the site support, says that Klipfolio dashboard "is software that you can use to stay on top of things and things that are the smallest and most versatile Board of the world". You can add to your dashboard, Klips are basically widgets (even if they say that it is smaller and faster than the regular widgets) that keep you updated with all kinds of news, statistics and data. You can create and customize your Klips so that is just how you like them. Klips may even posted on your website or blog and you can also buy individual dashboards for your desktop.

Today, we will look at Klipfolio dashboard running on the Web and is now in beta stage "Trial". Used to create your own Klips and share with friends or colleagues.

You can change the layout for your dashboard Klips. There are 5 layouts to choose from? by default it is configured in a single column.

I already have a tab on your dashboard called "Examples", which you can click to see example Klips. These samples include:

Revenues YTDCurrent RatioQTD RepRegional sales StatusOpportunity QTDBookings – distribution by MonthTweetsStock promotions

You can start adding your first Klip by clicking "add to Klip" in the upper-left corner of the dashboard. Here you can select a premade Klips (such as those mentioned above), or create your own. Building a Klip starts easy, but when I go to edit, this section Gets a bit intimidating depending on the type of the Klip that you create. Let's take a look.

First select which styles of Klip that you would like to start with. You can choose from:

Value – i.e. margin, rations, ROITable – i.e. sales, network condition, pipelineSparkline – i.e. as regards the use of the sites, budget YTD performance chart, trendingPie – survey results, opportunity – breakdownGauge, benchmarksNews – i.e. the RSS feed, Twitter updatesImage – that is, graphs, images, maps, webcams

I decided to go with news in order to keep up with one of my favorite blogs via RSS.

Then you must pick your Klip's data source. This can be a source of shared or stored (such as demos from the library or those shared by colleagues), a new source (such as an Excel file, or XML) or no source at all (if the content is static).

I chose "new source", since I want to get data from an RSS feed. From here you can choose to upload a file (Excel, CSV, JSON, XML) or point to a URL to access the web.

Now is the time to add the source file. After the URL, I was able to add the URL, select the data format and select a refresh rate (from every 30 seconds for each 24 hours). Then, you will need to verify that this is indeed the source you want, and then you can add a name and description for this.

Here is the difficult part. You should go and edit every part of you Klip as the main content, link, author, etc. This is done through data and clicking individual items. You can also enter formulas and text here. Frankly, this section is a bit confusing (and where it should stop), and probably will get some play to tell. You can click on a question mark next to a specific area in order to get help -how to use formulas.

Once here, you must enter a name and a description of your actual Klip and then will appear on your dashboard.

If all this seems a little tedious or difficult to you, then I would recommend using a premade Klip or buying an entire Tableau to meet your needs. While this is certainly a useful tool, actually editing a Klip is something that will not come easily to everyone, and I think this could ever really escape some users.

What are your thoughts?

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Readings – the newsreader which also allows you to follow your favorite authors

The buzz is spreading fast enough for readings, an online "community" for those who want to keep up to date with the latest news about various subjects such as Business, entertainment, photography, technology and Social Media. What is unique about readings is that it also allows you to follow your favorite authors. With the kind of brings to mind the readability, with a new reading service that has been built around it. After a full review of the service, he began to realize what it is about feelings and I must say that I really like the service.

Let's take a look.

The first thing you'll need to do is find some publishers to register. This is done through each category and then pick your Favourite publications. You can also use the search feature to find publishers faster. Frankly, I was interested only for all publishers, so I had to force myself to choose my top 10 picks only.

Then you can find and follow authors who write for the various publications listed under publishers. This is done in the same format as the above, and includes a search bar. When you subscribe to an Author, you can see all the articles you have registered on the Web with the most recent tweets. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of my favorite authors here, so I just skip this section. Regardless, this is a really nice way for each author to get some free advertising and to increase their following.

After recording some publishers and your favorite authors since, it is time to read. The wonderful about reading is that this is very clean, but has many options to interact. For example, you can save items to read later, follow the author of an article that you really enjoy reading, or share on your favorite social site like Facebook, Twitter or Google +.

Along with saving items to read later readings, you can also use the bookmarklet to save articles from around the web. This is really a nice feature? I know I always read my articles later in the list, but never seem to get to read them. Adding them to my actual feed reader just seems more ideal, since it is using at least a few times a week, so I'm more likely to actually read the articles you save. Items that have been saved for later reading can be found under unread in the sidebar.

You can subscribe and follow your heart content without even signing for an account at readings, but you won't be able to save any of your settings or add any custom RSS feeds? Therefore, it is probably the best that you can create an account. You can connect to Facebook or to create a real account.

After you add custom RSS feeds, you can follow then as from authors and blogs. For example, 2 blogs I write for myself and readings that you added and then create a page author to me, well kinda – created by two different author pages for me even though my name is the same on each blog. Anyway, this is a great way to follow your favorite authors who do not have the privilege to read already on the system.

I love the Top Stories, because you can see the articles that downward trend now along with the top stories of the day, week and month.

Although you can click on each news source separately from the sidebar, you can also see at a glance from the news feed. Also gives you a glimpse of some of the stories of the vertex.

So with all these features and Nice clean environment, do you think is pretty good readings to replace the current feed reader? Currently I'm using Google Reader and I have here some years ago. Seems like every time I try a new reader, I end up always to return to Google Reader. In addition, now with the addition of Google +, just makes more sense to use Google Reader, since all the Google services are more tightly knit. I believe that we will try to read a few days, just to get a feel for it. If the sync with Google Reader.

What are your thoughts? What feed reader you use now is that you open by using a new reader?

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