Noobpool - first off, thanks for standing up a quality pool and addressing issues found so quickly. I jumped in right after the first block was found and am looking forward to mining with this group for a long while.
Second - any chance you've looked at enabling notifications for the pool? For example inactive miner or new block found email updates? No idea what goes into doing that or how much effort it is, but thought it would be helpful to those of us in the pool.
For your 2nd proposal, you can download an App from Google Play called PoolWatch, and just key in the json API url (which you can obtain from noobpool website by keying in your public address) into this app.
It works wonderful for me to check on my rig run status.