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Windows unsafe for online banking

Take a look for yourself here. What a load of crap.  That’s like saying people die wearing seat belts, thus it must be the seat belt’s fault so you shouldn’t wear your seat belt.  The reason there are so many viruses and malware for Windows is because it is such a big “prize” for hackers.  [...]

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More 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 [...]

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Big 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 [...]

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I'm not sure about the name, but Banktastic looks cool!

My earlier post this week,  Making RSS Easy, stirred up a great pot.  Mark over at the Garland Group has been working on exactly what I was talking about. Banktastic is, "A community helping bankers quickly find relevant, industry specific information and share it with others".  While I can pick on Mark about the name, the [...]

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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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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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