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Twenty Years of Blogging

Phil Windley

I started blogging in May 2002 , twenty years ago today. But my life and bank account are richer because I blog. I wouldn't have started Internet Identity Workshop or been the Executive Producer of IT Conversations. I often think "Oh, I get this" and then go to write it down and find all kinds of holes in my understanding.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

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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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. more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m

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Sharing my life story from a virtual perspective

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One of the things that happened there, that was just the time when the internet was being born. There was a group called TWICS, which was originally a BBS, a bulletin board system, for pre internet, just on dial up. This was the portal where I first was able to get onto the internet. There was a whole array of others.

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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. Some excerpts from his below show how blogging can change how corporations work.

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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - Trends in the Living Networks

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For now it is being trialled in three large institutions, including a global retail bank with 70,000 staff that had received loud complaints from staff when it banned Facebook, and an investment bank that tried to implement an in-house social network based on Sharepoint that its employees didn’t use. So the excuses are running out.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

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It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile Internet, video screens on buses, and more. Sophisticated and with a social conscience, Gen Z has never lived without the internet or mobile phones. October 2002 (9).

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