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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

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The principle is simple – you lend to individuals at interest rates based on their credit rating, and since you’re cutting out the bank as middleman, both lender and depositer get more attractive interest rates than they can get commercially. Banks are the archetypical intermediary, in this case between depositers and lenders.

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Announcing Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum: Sydney, 19 February 2008 - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Interview on Sky Business on Enterprise 2.0 and social networks in organizations | Main | The state of Enterprise 2.0: adoption has begun in earnest » Announcing Enterprise 2.0

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Sell-side banks become consultants - Trends in the Living Networks

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As such, the emerging domain of algorithmic trading – which largely automates trade execution – is in fact providing new ways for investment banks to create high-value relationships with the clients. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

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Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. VisiblePath and Contact Networks focused on applications entirely inside the enterprise, with the value proposition centered on being able to identify who within your organization could best introduce you to key contacts at prospective clients.

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Keynote at Tandberg Summit: weaving together Enterprise 2.0 and videoconferencing - Trends in the Living Networks

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I found it extremely interesting being among a large people who were concerned with implementing video in organizations, as these are almost entirely different people to those concerned with Enterprise 2.0 I’ll report back as I experiment more with video, and in particular see how Enterprise 2.0 More thoughts on that in a moment.

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Microsoft enters enterprise social network software - Trends in the Living Networks

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This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Many organizations seem to think the enterprise social network software will provide an immediate solution, and many have stumbled already in applying these tools.

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Lloyds TSB pilots social media - Trends in the Living Networks

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» Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank. Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Enterprise 2.0 Looking forward to it!

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