Gravity Insights

Didn't you post about this last week? You involved with them, advertising? .. not sure what to think of this post. Sorry.

Ummm... maybe... its a good resource? No? This is a forum admin resource community you know

They emailed me in February asking if I wanted to beta test - is it worth it? For more than just looking at it once and saying, "Hmm, that's interesting."?

Maybe I am just skeptical, knowing they are a Conversation Engine, and they offer a free "collect your data, including your post content and meta data" while they have a Interests Community build on the popularity of this data. Why does someone want to submit their popular site content for review, so they know how to build theirs twice as big? It's them injecting a 'give me everything you run' to better their business content, while you think you're just getting nice statistics? Not saying they're Using your content, they do not seem to do that. But they're building a community with popular content based on the statistics we freely provide to them and allow them to use in any shape or form.

I'd give it a shot, I like doing beta stuff when it concerns forum software I use. It gives me a chance to decide how good it could benefit my community before others get that idea

Hm, I vividly remember posting of 'but they are in private beta now', they were actually still in my history. If you're not involved with them and it's not an advertisement, then I apologize. But to be honest, I felt offended as a user if it was actually the case, since it would mean to me the objectivity this site has wouldn't be so objective after all. Glad to hear I am wrong then!

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I posted that second post before I read your reply. FYI. Not skeptical about you, but about the gravity company their intentions for this product.

Not sure you mean that as really sarcastic, or to defuse the situation.

I removed the post, Floris. You and Lisa settled it and I felt my opinion was not needed, so my apologies.

Memory glitch then. Perhaps another user. Glad to hear things are as I was hoping for. Again, sorry then.

Delete me please

This is what went through my head as well.

I read it as patronizing.

effiing hate those !!!!!


thx for mentioning AL!

Just an FYI, the Private Beta you heard about was posted at AdminAddict some months back.

Hey All - This post just came onto my radar. I'm one of the Gravity guys involved in Gravity Insights. I hope you guys like the service. I wanted to briefly address some of the main concerns that I saw voiced.

First, we have no association with adminextra whatsoever (though we'd be open to being a sponsor ).

Second, your data is safe! It's only used to provide the service to you. We are planning on building some additional tools that will enable admins to display trending topics, the latest threads, thread recommendations, and some of the other more interesting data back to your end-users. More on this to come.

Third, our goals as a company is to provide tools and services that help all communities flourish -- by making them more functional and sticky and by providing new monetization opportunities to community operators. We're doing that through Gravity Insights (our community analytics service), and Gravity.com, which today is just a destination site now, but will soon be a service that can be integrated into any website.

That's it! Gravity Insights is still evolving rapidly and we love getting input from admins about what they like and don't like. If you have any questions or feedback about Gravity Insights, please feel free to email me at insights@gravity.com!

Thanks!