Archive for the ‘CU Technology’ Category
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
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 ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
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 ...
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Addressing pain points for consumers is always a great way to launch a successful business and the new BankSwitcher is doing just that. BankSwitcher analyzes consumers' checking accounts for direct deposits, automatic payments and the like to determine what exactly needs to be switched by using Wesabe's newish free API. ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Back in July, 365 Main, a major data center hosting companies such as c|net, Craigslist, e-surance, and the Oakland Raiders, lost power. For most of the day. And 365 Main has the time, money, and resources to make sure that (almost) never happens. Here is the full story straight from 365 ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
The CUSO that I'm slowly migrating to, FiLinx, is getting ready to release our second product, a simple check fraud tool called CheckChecker that is designed to be used by front-line staff. Each CU gets a specific url and can pass that url around to the entire CU. No logins ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
In an article on TechCrunch today, the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, took some harsh words about the grey line that exists in the open source community: how to make money from it.
After BarCampBankSeattle, a small group of us have continued the discussion surrounding the core processing marketplace and opportunities ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Just stumbled onto Mutual Savings CU's website and it is done with Wordpress. And, I don't know if sadly is the right word here, but it looks a lot better than many CU sites I've seen! Very easy to navigate and very clean! It is a great example of how ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
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 ...
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