Geezeo Adopts a Pig and Adds Budgeting and New Live Chat

Online financial tool Geezeo has sent over some updates I thought were worth mentioning. This seems to be online financial services week at CN after our interview with Wesabe yesterday. The first change is their new home page - it incorporates their new pig which stands for piggy bank for savings. Thought it looks more like a pig on a platter. :-P

They have also switched their live chat from Meebo to 37Signals Campfire product. Co-founder Peter Glyman said of the change, "... to allow for group chat and better real time support."

The other addition to the site is budgeting. Glyman notes, "Taking center stage is the ability to set spending targets and measure your progress throughout the month aka "Budgets". Personally I think budgeting is incredibly painful and something I've never been very good at. So...keeping our low tolerance for hard core budgeting (yawn) in mind we set out to create a "better way". We knew that when we built our budgeting features we would have to do it right..do it simple, make it easy and fun. That's the Geezeo way. That's how we roll." Budgeting is critical for proper money management and will be a good addition to the Geezeo feature lineup.

The budgets allow you to track how your spending works in categories along with across categories to make sure your spending makes sense as a whole. They are working on sms alerts as you approach your budget targets. The one thing they can't do is prevent you from overspending!

Lastly, yes, I still have my security concerns with Geezeo. I know they are obsessed with security but it takes time for trust to be built.  Check out our extensive coverage of Geezeo.