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Wednesday, 21st September 2011

This is What BankSimple Looks Like

BankSimple, the most-hyped pre-launch web application in the nerd-o-sphere, is about to make its web-only personal banking service available to its first customers. An incredibly ambitious little project that promises no surprise fees, hot web design and real time data processing, BankSimple is very eagerly anticipated. Today the company released…

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Bankers Go Bonkers Over Big Data's Future

With quadrillions of dollars on the line, banks and financial institutions pay close attention to the emerging exaflood of available data about their customers and the world around them. Here at the O'Reilly Strata conference on big data, the panel on big data in the banking world was fascinating. It's likely an indication of the way the rest…

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WordPress Adds a Follow Button

WordPress has made a pair of announcements today focusing on reading rather than writing. Free WordPress.com sites now have a "small, cute, little" follow button in the bottom right corner for readers who are not logged into WordPress. This allows non-WordPress users to follow the blog by email. (Yes, disgruntled blogger, you can turn it…

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Adobe Offers Up New Flash Version 11

The first major release of Adobe's Flash Player in two years was announced today. While anyone could download a beta of v11 over the past several weeks, the finished code will be available early next month and comes packed with new features. As an indication of demand (or just paranoia about potential security exploits), the beta was downloaded a…

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The Future of Instant Customized Software

For years, the culture of the U.S. has been all about instant gratification. But it is only fairly recently that manufacturers began to seriously take interest in instant customization as a means to profit from that ravenous cultural maw. Instant Customization (IC), also known as "mass customization," is a relatively new production model built upon…

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