Archive for Technology

Flash, Flash, everywhere!

  As of late, I’ve been seeing flash websites pop up everywhere.  The latest FI-related one is called Lose Your Lunch Hour.  We’ve seen Dump Your Bank and the Coop Crusader this year.  It seems that lots of FI’s and organizations are spending money on these great looking flash sites, but what exactly is it [...]

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Making RSS easy

I’m continually finding myself talking to more executive level employees about ideas generated from the blogosphere (like Doug’s funeral plot lending) and the sources of the ideas.  Most of them are now familiar with the the term blog and kinda have a grasp of it, but now we need to make the information easy to [...]

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Collaboration on a Car Operating System

At our recent BarCampBankSeattle event, we had quite a few discussions around core processors and opportunities in the marketplace.  Hopefully we’ll have some more posts about that in the future, but here is some related news from the far east.  It appears that Japanese car manufacturers also see an opportunity to have an in-car operating [...]

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Another Community-Based WiFi Solution

Remember Whisher? I blogged about it a while back and not it seems there is another player in the game. Go check out FON.

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Always wonder what hosting company runs a site?

Check out this new tool, Who is Hosting This?, to find out which hosting companies are used by your favorite, or least favorite, sites.

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PlanHQ

A new entrant into the Web 2.0 app space, PlanHQ brings collaborative business plan creation and collaboration to the web.  I think this is a great idea that will gain traction with the niche it is designed for.  Go check out their site.  It seems fairly well put together and informative.  Anyone looking to collaborate [...]

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The .Bank Debate Part II

In my previous post, I commented on the proposed “.Bank” TLD. Since then, F-Secure has defended their proposal in their blog, addressing many of the key issues I commented about. Here is what they had to say about users still being fooled the new addresses: The main point of such a new TLD would not [...]

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The World's Best Presentation

Tired of boring PowerPoint presentations?  Looking for some inspiration? Shift Happens recently won the World’s Best Presentation Contest hosted by SlideShare.  It’s a pretty amazing presentation and there is a host of other resources on the site as well.  If you’re looking for some pizazz to spice up those really entertaining credit unions presentations, look [...]

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