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Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

How many Ts is that?

Noting the news last night it's not a great time to be associated with banking and as such the professional community will seek solace amongst its members. So, during this period of kinship and support perhaps some managers will study how the renewed trust in peers and colleagues can be put to good use. Transparency creates trust, trust facilitates...

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Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

UK Banking Retail OPEN API

This has been on my mind a lot recently, mainly out of frustration with using my bank's web sites as they don't support Firefox very well. More so, my bank and credit card providers especially are a total pain in the butt when it comes to working out which cookies and javascripts to enable for their various domains - this becomes a total headache...

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Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

Dunbar's 150

It is not surprising that after a mad rush to follow the crowd, catalysed by Facebook publishing their API (a strategy that allowed 3rd party developers to build applications that could leverage the platform and be used by Facebook members thus increasing value of the underlying service) that the steam would run out of this engine. What continues...

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Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

Bot-wars and proximity

Technology brings as many problems as it solves solutions much the same way experts often confess to knowing more and more about less and less. As one passes through life this statement becomes more prevalent and it's no surprise that older folk are known to take less risk than younger ones who do not have the battle scars and hindsight of the ve...

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Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

A Grid too far?

It's quite something isn't it - grid technology - the concept of a super computer at your disposal, able to provide high performance computing resources to your entire IT estate. However, rather than hark on about latency and proximity concerns that also challenge grid deployments many IT managers are discovering there is the spectre of significan...

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Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

Enterprise code management innovations

Noting Chris has been posting on innovation & techie musings at his blog I thought as a change from strategic debate one might observe some tactics that are going on and share these with you... I just got finished reading an article on a company that has inspired this post. Krugle has built a product delivering a service using open source t...

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Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com

Expert accessibility - unleashing the wisdom of the crowds

The internet age has unleashed a massive force that is accelerating innovation, it is facilitating a most potent human behaviour... that of community and it is no surprise FinExtra has moved to address this trend. Online communities, just like offline communities, develop their identity, brand and 'being' with precursors like the Slashdot communi...

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