Finance 2.0

A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.

Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research

How personal finance web sites build trust

A nice article here from BusinessWeek on the techniques a new generation of personal finance web sites are using to build trust among their online audience. The article takes a snapshot look at Wesabe, Geezeo, Mint, Buxfer, BillMonk, Expensr and NetworthIQ.com.

12 February 2008

Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research

Jodange searches investor sentiment with Top of Mind

Jodange has debuted Top of Mind at Demo '08 - the press release is here. Built using the expertise of a bunch of Cornell University computer scientists, Jodange claims Top of Mind is already in evaluation with seven financial institutions. According to Jodange: the product's breakthrough sentiment analysis technology, custom filters allow users t...

01 February 2008

Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research

Reuters liberates Calais

Mashable reports Reuters has announced Calais, an open API for automatic content tagging aimed at bloggers and content publishers. The Calais web site offers a $5,000 bounty to any developer quick off the mark with a WordPress plug-in for Calais. I can't confirm if this is actually 'news' as there is nothing formally announced on reuters.com (very ...

30 January 2008

Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research

Banks closed by authorities, ATMs run dry

... in Second Life that is. Which makes it seem a touch irrelevant to the real world right now. Although it is, apparently, costing Second Lifers who deposited with a number of the virtual banks the loss of 'real' dollars. WSJ has the full story - and its free to view too (thanks for that Rupert).

23 January 2008

Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research

Michael Feser joins fledgling online broking site Zecco

Mashable points me to news that Michael Feser, a senior exec at E*Trade Financial, is to join the admirably funded ($35 million at last count) online broking 'community', Zecco. Feser was previously VP Customer Services at E*Trade, the PR is here. Have to admit I hadn't come across Zecco before. Their 'about' section uses the C-word a lot: Commun...

23 January 2008