Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

Big banking news from Second Life

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

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 ...

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

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 ...

Flash, Flash, everywhere!

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

  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 ...

Making RSS easy

Monday, August 6th, 2007

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 ...

Another Community-Based WiFi Solution

Monday, July 16th, 2007

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

Always wonder what hosting company runs a site?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

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

Class differences in MySpace and Facebook

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Great paper from Danah Boyd about class differences between the two sites.  He She dissects briefly how the sites go started as well as how people came to be attracted to each of the slightly different sites.

The World’s Best Presentation

Monday, May 7th, 2007

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 ...