Looks like Geckboard got wind of what was going on:
Business Dashboards Get Instant Widgets, And Geckoboard Gets $1.5M From Top Investors | TechCrunch
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The project has been moving forward rapidly. I haven't done updates, since it's mostly making things faster and smoother on the backend. Tightening up the code, and giving it a clean UI is the first and foremost requirement in order to have the best user experience.
I was just talking to several people in skype about this. Geckoboard has to step up it's game, cause they have seen I was coming for them.
They are incremented by 240 pixels. You will be able to customize them according to the plugin, but each plugin has a default setting accordingly.
sitting here dick in hand for this epic project.