http://www.asteroff.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:42:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From The Economist on Banking and IT – worth the read – accurate and interesting. http://tinyurl.com/2d9bcr8 Big banks need IT reform almost as badly as regulatory change WHEN Metro Bank, which claims to be Britain’s first new high-street bank for more than 150 years, opens its first branch on July 29th ... http://www.asteroff.com/2010/07/banking-and-it/ Check out Netvibes -- it gives you the ability to make your own dashboards, collect your own news, etc. http://www.netvibes.com/en All in one place and always up-to-date, Netvibes is the faster and easier way to enjoy the entire real-time Web. Instantly create as many different dashboards as you'd like to ... http://www.asteroff.com/2010/05/new-dashboard-capabilities/ Interesting articles. Some good info, but no real original insights. A world of connections Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better, says Martin Giles http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15351002 THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections ... http://www.asteroff.com/2010/02/the-economist-articles-on-social-networking/ 18 Awesome Tech Things We Didn't Have 10 Years Ago Gregory Galant | Dec. 31, 2009 Wikipedia Gmail Facebook YouTube Twitter AdWords Amazon AWS RSS (started in ‘99 but didn’t catch on till the ’00s) Meetup iPod Google Maps Podcasts Mint Skype/VOIP iPhone Google Docs Creative ... http://www.asteroff.com/2009/12/18-awesome-tech-things-we-didnt-have-10-years-ago/ Once Upon a Honeymoon Starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers (1942) A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official. Back From Eternity Starring Robert Ryan and Anita Ekberg (1957) A pilot, a hooker, a killer and eight others crash among headhunters, but only five can leave. http://www.asteroff.com/2009/12/improbable-plots/ Check out The Economist's excellent essay on newspapers and the telegraph, and the implications for today: NETWORK EFFECTS, Dec 17th 2009 They do a wonderful job of tying together the history of how one technology impacted another, and how the Internet will continue to impact not only newspapers, but news itself. It's ... http://www.asteroff.com/2009/12/newspapers-news-and-technology/ ReadWriteWeb community's Top 10 Web Products of 2009. Twitter Google Chrome Google Maps Facebook WordPress Adobe AIR iPhone platform Google Apps Hulu TweetDeck http://www.asteroff.com/2009/12/readwriteweb-top-2009-products/ Do we have any further ideas on this? thanks Reid Hoffman -- http://www.asteroff.com/2009/12/what-is-a-public-intellectual/ WSJ has a video: Face-to-face conversations foster more understanding, and too many careless emails have gotten companies in legal hot water, says former UBS PaineWebber CEO Joseph Grano. Information Scientists knew all this in the 1980s,  but  haven't exported the knowledge of their discipline into the business sector. Information science and ... http://www.asteroff.com/2009/12/when-not-to-use-e-mail/ The Economist might explore the idea that a new auction technology can determine how to compensate for the "presence in the room"  and measure it in a way that is meaningful for the participants. A new auction system also  introduces new variables that change the playing field for in-person and ... http://www.asteroff.com/2009/11/online-art-auctions/