Remember Panic’s awesome status board? A soon as they started talking about it, people came out of the woodwork asking them to “open source” it or some such thing. Geckoboard appears to be taking a crack at building a product out of “widgetizing” the various stats you might want to collect about your business.

It’s an interesting idea and an interesting business model (charging per device per month), though, I wonder how useful such a thing will be using public feeds and stats instead of the kind of custom feeds the Panic guys built. Oh, hey, how about that, they have an API for your custom data feeds. Well that’s smart.