My personal iPhone 3G debacle

It’s last night at about 9:30p and I pull up Apple’s website to see what the availability would be for my Apple store at Willow Bend mall to have an iPhone 3G tomorrow. The website says it would be available in my flavor (white, 16GB) tomorrow so I began wondering what time I had [...]

iPhone Software 2.0 Review

I couldn’t help myself.
I’m sure there are going to be another thousand reviews on the software but the beauty of the web is that people are also interested in my take. So I did three parts.
1) From a Apple fanboy perspective
2) From a financial services perspective
3) From a private ‘internal only’ to my guys at [...]

Vibing w/ Sliderocket for presentations

Sliderocket is a service that I recently learned about through the FastcompanyTV stuff Robert Scoble is doing. He interviewed the founder of Sliderocket recently and I instantly was intrigued by the product. Since speaking is something I’ve been doing quite a bit of lately, having something that is entirely browser based and so [...]

BarcampBankDallas (BCBD) 2008 - my perspective

As my two-year Kate would say after a meal, “All done.” The 1st BarCampBank in Dallas is officially done. Pictures here. Videos coming soon.
It seemed like a whirlwind weekend but I’m thinking that’s the status quo for these things. We ended up having 29 people show up to the event and the [...]

Shifting the media paradigm

I don’t golf.

I don’t golf because I know how I am with other things I love. 100%. Full bore. Entrenched. And I just fear the money and time drain that golf could add to my life. However, I love a good competition and this past Sunday and Monday I watched the U.S. Open [...]

CU versus Bank | Can’t we all just get along…maybe so

Bank. Credit Union. Customer. Member. Not-for-profit. Profit. Taxed. Not Taxed. Twiddle-dee. Twiddle-dum.
Sure, there are differences but really at the end of the day? People are still people, banks and credit unions, operationally, work in many of the same ways, and their IT systems are damn near identical from one another. So why not try to [...]

One of those (big) weeks…

As most of you know, our company has been putting alot of time and effort into a community that we’re building for the financial services industry.
After going through a semi-private beta and then the release of Banktastic on April 1st we’ve seen some great progress. We always wanted the product to [...]