Archive for May, 2007

Citi - Let’s Get It Done

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Citigroup recently rebranded themselves to focus on the theme of helping make dreams realities. Their advertisement is emotionally charged and reflects some of the major financial milestones in life:

Buy that house
Merge that company
Start that business
Send her to college
Build a fortune
Take your business global
Plan for the future

A company such as Citi certainly has the products, [...]

Virtual Economies and E-Currencies

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

I begin this post by recalling the concept of the imaginary number. An imaginary number in mathematics is defined as a number that if squared will result in a negative real number. If you remember learning about this i in your algebra class, you also probably remember thinking — what the heck!? [...]

Yahoo! Research at WWW2007

Friday, May 11th, 2007

The head of Yahoo! Research, Prabhakar Raghavan, recently spoke at WWW2007. I didn’t attend the conference, but found some interesting notes (here). On one hand, he speaks to how it is important that we make data and the processing of data much smarter, so that we spend less time querying and deducing [...]

Hacked 2.0

Friday, May 11th, 2007

While I was looking for Web 2.0 sites that focus on banking, I saw something I haven’t seen in a long time — a hacked web site. NetBanker profiled their Top 25 Web 2.0 Financial Websites back in December 2006. So I figured I’d visit the sites I wasn’t familiar with. Because [...]

Blog Reloaded

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Today, I reloaded Wordpress to start blogging. I was hoping to start early this year, but I haven’t been able to spend time on blogging because the web-based software company I co-founded was going through an acquisition.
I have a special interest in the transformation we’re seeing in the lending, banking, and investing markets. [...]