Archive for April, 2008
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Finovate Demos – Part 3
Here’s another round of my notes from yesterday’s Finovate demos. Since each company only got 5 minutes to show their stuff, my notes are short as well. I got to meet many of the companies afterward to get more detail. Expensr – I thought this might steal Best of Show. It’s a personal finance management [...]
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Finovate Demos – Part 2
Buxfer – Demo had numerous technical difficulties… website was down. Maybe we’ll see their demo later in the day. Guardian Analytics – FraudMAP product watches for suspicious activity banking activity. Banks can use this tool to monitor login times, login IPs and other information and get alerted to possible fraud. Jwaala – Thus far it [...]
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Finovate Demos – Part 1
Here are some updates from the first batch of demos at Finovate. Authentium – Safe Central makes keystroke loggers or screenshot grabbers “blind.†Runs on top of Firefox. Prevents man in the middle and phishing. Credit Karma – Free credit score tracking using their proprietary scoring system. Cons are that you need to give up [...]
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Live Blogging from Finovate Startup
Today, I’m gong to attempt to live blog from Finovate Start-up. I’ve got my pink Asus Eee in tow. Here are some things to expect: Many Typos – I haven’t gotten used to this keyboard yet. Short Notes – Each company has just five minutes to demo its product. Since I grew up on MTV [...]
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Carnival of Personal Finance #150
Welcome to the 150th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. It amazes me to see the 150 number there. I had grand notions of tying all 115 accepted submissions into a good story. However, with the Comcast outage in my area yesterday, I scrambled today to get all the submissions in the form that [...]
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Links: Comcast Outage and NFL Draft Edition
Yesterday, I woke up excited for the NFL draft. It had been heavily publicized for the last two months. I was disappointed to find that Comcast, my cable television and Internet provider, was experiencing an outage. Right before the draft, they got the television working, but the Internet was down all day. I finally called [...]
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Finovate Start-up: What Would You Ask Vestopia, SmartHippo and other companies?
This Tuesday, I’m heading to Finovate Start-up hosted by Jim Bruene of NetBanker fame. There are a ton of companies presenting there. Some of the highlights that I’m looking forward to are Buxfer, Loanio (are they ever going to launch), Mint, Prosper, SmartyPig, Wesabe, Zecco, Zopa. I’m disappointed that Geezeo isn’t going to be there. [...]
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Asus Eee Purchased – Only One Catch
Yesterday, I wrote about my techno-lust with the Asus Eee. Not long after the post went live, the lowest possible version on Craigslist for $200. That’s $100 less than retail, and $40 less from any other price I’ve previous seen. I jumped at the opportunity to own it. I figured that in the worst case [...]
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Carnival News
I’ve got a couple of pieces of carnival news that may be of interest to other personal finance bloggers. (Readers who are not bloggers, might wish to move on or read about my new techno-lust.) The Carnival of P2P Lending is looking for bloggers to host upcoming carnivals. It’s usually a small carnival making it [...]
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Asus Eee: I’m In Techno-Lust With You
A year ago, I was looking for a portable computer that could allow me to blog from places like Aruba. I thought I found an acceptable solution with a PDA and bluetooth keyboard. It didn’t work quite as well as I hoped. As two pieces, you can’t put it on your lap and type. The [...]
