Filtrbox Fun...

I just learned about Filtrbox from Brad Feld's post at AlwaysOn: Filter Box Gets Better Everyweek.




The vision for Filtrbox when they started at TechStars last summer was to create an integrated single dashboard of all this keyword alert information.

Learn more about Filtrbox at Seth Levin's VC Adventure blog: Know what you don't know.

An excerpt:

Filtrbox was one of last year's TechStars companies and the the one with which I worked most closely (after the summer TechStars program I participated in their angel financing round). They've developed a system that if you had to describe it in a single sentence is "Google Alerts on steroids". That said, it's almost unfair to compare the two as Google Alerts just isn't designed to provide users with the accuracy, level of coverage, ability to tune and provide feedback to alert terms and the overall representation of data that Filtrbox provides - even now in the relatively early version of the Filtrbox platform. Filtrbox allows me to set up a series of "filtrs" that contain various keywords so that I can organize the things I'm looking to track. Every morning I get a "daily briefing" email that lists all the hits from the last 24 hours and online I can use their dashboard to see up-to-date hits in list and graphical form, manipulate the data, adjust the sensitivity of the report (so I see fewer, but more directly relevant hits) and tune the system by providing it feedback on the information it provides me. Below is a snapshot of their dashboard to give you a sense of what I see every day (in true Web 2.0 fashion, everything in the image below will give me more information as I mouse over it and I can adjust the data I'm seeing on the fly by checking and unchecking keywords or entire filtr groups or adjusting the sensitivity (the slider in the top center of the page).

Let me know if you'd like an invite to the private beta.