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IBM today announced new software and services for mobile devices that closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. The new software & services can help individuals make better business decisions faster, while connecting friends, work colleagues and teams above and beyond PC era.

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Gadging.com is a new (free) service which allows you to share your Google Analytics statistics with the world of just for your tools or application, get it as RSS feed for displaying on your blog, compare how your site ranks with others and more. And it takes less than a minute to configure.

Benefits of joining Gadging.com

1. Gadging allows you to selectively share your Google Analytics data to the entire world. You can use the provided RSS feeds of your data on your own sites and blogs.

2. Each Google Analytics profile is displayed on its own page which shows the most popular pages, geographic distribution of your visitors and other stats.

3. Your popular articles may be featured on the front page too under the Most Popular section. Your less popular pages may also be featured in the least popular section on the front page. That is not all.

4. Random pages from all the sites are also highlighted on front page too, thereby allowing pages from any sites to be featured.

We created Gadging.com to allow us to display Google Analytics data on our front page (Hot Topics). In the process we decided to share it to all. You can use any RSS displayer plugin to display the data from Gadging on your own site.

Currently we support Google Analytics only. We have plans to support other analytics software soon.

How to use Gadging.com

In less than a minute you can get your RSS feed for your Google Analytics data, share them with the world and more. Here are the steps:
1. Login to Google Analytics
2. Click on View Reports for the profile you want to share
3. Click on Email button (at the top, just under Dashboard) and beside Export.
4. Click on Schedule tab
5. In Send to others type ga@gadging.com
6. Uncheck Send to me
7. In Subjecttype in the exact URL of your site. For example for this blog I typed http://blog.taragana.com
8. Select Format as XML
9. Choose Daily for Date Range/Schedule
10. Click on Schedule and you are done!

You are done!

Every morning Google will sent a copy of your daily stats to gadging.com which we will use to update the site. You will also get an email (after Google sends us the first report) providing you with your personal url for your blog where you can see your site's statistics. For example, this blog's stats are available here. It will also be featured in the Recently Added Sites section on the front pages.

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