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Holy crow, Surface looks awesome
Trey and the gang at TD already have one, but for the rest of of who aren’t cool enough, this is an amazing demo of what Surface could do in banking. Dang. Surface: The Banking Demo
Read moreRSS me my balances!
We’re working on an RSS mechanism to distribute balances and transactions to members. We are currently building it and beta testing it with employees but we’re kinda stuck on exactly how the balances should be delivered. Option 1: A feed for each account. The title of the feed is “Checking – Balance”, thus every [...]
Read moreMore on OpenID
I was just reading an article in Information Week talking more about OpenID and how it has been starting to catch on and is being implemented on mainstream sites, like MySpace. As quickly as they praise it, it rapidly turns around into how many sites enable the use of their OpenID, but they don’t accept [...]
Read moreCredit union system maintenance
I’m guessing the following graph is fairly typical of most FI’s. So if these were the website transaction patters of your members, when would you perform maintenance on critical, member-facing systems?
Read moreDistributed computing at CU's?
Our CU has a ratio of three employees to one server. Astronomical. Barely any of those servers get used all day long and rarely do their resources get maxed out. To me, it seems like a wonderful opportunity to use credit union resources for the better good: distributed computing projects. While there are many projects, [...]
Read moreBig banking news from Second Life
Second Life issued a statement today effectively banning in-world banking. “As of January 22, 2008, it will be prohibited to offer interest or any direct return on an investment (whether in L$ or other currency) from any object, such as an ATM, located in Second Life, without proof of an applicable government registration statement or [...]
Read moreThose with the most power win
So we’ve had some pretty exciting weather here in Oregon the past couple of days. 125 MPH gusts on the beach, 50 in the valley for Portland and Salem. I was getting ready for work this morning and caught the "live on the scene" reporting from Lincoln City, OR, a small coastal town best known [...]
Read moreMore open source news
If it is good enough for the Department of Defense, it should be good enough for CU’s, right? From Colin, the DOD is hosting an open source conference this December in DC. To quote the DoD article, they are, "Fostering collaboration and interoperability across DoD" Just cross out DoD and put in CU. The credit union [...]
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