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MoneyAisle : Banks Bid for Your Business Posted on October 10, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized |  I have been moving out of markets and into cash recently (although not enough ahead of the carnage this week) and I need somewhere to put it. My primary bank has ridiculously low CD rates and the other bank I use for CD type investments had okay rates but not especially good. I ran an auction process on MoneyAisle, detailing the amount and duration of the CD I was interested in and they came back with a rate that was a full 50 basis points better than anything I could find on my own. Nice result and I took the offer, which by the way was from a reputable bank (whatever that is these days).It appears that 83 banks are participating in this service and there are no fees for consumers. There are multiple rounds of bidding so apparently there is some automated process that the banks participate in to optimize the auction process for the consumer. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "MoneyAisle : Banks Bid for Your Business", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/10/moneyaisle-banks-bid-for-your-business/" }); Newspapers, Comments and Censoring Posted on October 10, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | This thread on SFGate really caught the attention of site moderators: What’s the point of having comments if you are going to delete the bulk of them under the guise of “violating the terms and conditions”?SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Newspapers, Comments and Censoring", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/10/newspapers-comments-and-censoring/" }); Stages of Valley Grief Posted on October 9, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | The tech industry blew through the 3rd stage of grief about the financial crisis and quickly entered the 4th - depression - today with Gigaom’s post.1. Denial: Tech titans go on buying spree Green tech still a draw2. Anger: I don’t think it’s necessary to link to anything to support the anger argument3. Bargaining: First, this recession will be good for innovation because recessions generally are.4. Depression: The alarm bell is rung by Sequoia Credit crisis spreads pall over Silicon ValleyWe still have the acceptance phase ahead of us.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Stages of Valley Grief", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/09/stages-of-valley-grief/" }); Defrag Posted on October 9, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | Defrag is just around the corner and is you use the discount code “EJN2″ you will get $300 off the registration. I attended this event last year, moderated one panel and participated in a second, so I can attest to the quality of the event.This year I am moderating a panel on “fixing information flows” that looks at how email, calendars, IM, RSS, twitter, et. al. are not just overloading the average worker but fundamentally changing the way we work with other people.NewsGator is a sponsor for Defrag and we will be hosting some events around the conference so please consider attending.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Defrag", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/09/defrag/" }); MAPLight.org Posted on October 8, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | MAPLight.orgPosted using ShareThisSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "MAPLight.org", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/08/maplightorg/" }); State Tax Competitiveness Posted on October 7, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | While this chart could easily be mistaken for K-12 student performance, it’s actually measuring tax competitiveness across 50 states. W00T! California beat New York and New Jersey! All humor aside, it’s worth reading this research because it clearly identifies how the corporate, individual, sales, and payroll taxes conspire to frustrate businesses who wish to expand. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "State Tax Competitiveness", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/07/state-tax-competitiveness/" }); September Madness Posted on October 7, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | Thanks Ronn! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "September Madness", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/07/september-madness/" }); OpenTable Reviews, Know Who Your Customer Is Posted on October 7, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | OpenTable added a restaurant reviews section. This is a bad idea.I use OpenTable all the time, in fact it is now a rarity that I don’t use the service to book a restaurant. It works great, has a broad selection of restaurants, and doesn’t cost anything (unlike Fandango and others that tack on a “convenience fee”). So, in short, great service and would be a real loss if I could not use it anymore.Here’s why adding restaurant reviews are a bad idea. The customer for OpenTable is the restaurant, not me; I am merely a participant in the value chain. Restaurants pay OpenTable for every reservation that is booked through the service and for reservations that are made on the OpenTable provided terminal even if the reservation is made over the phone. For the restaurant they are willing to take on this additional cost for the convenience provided by the service and for the customer acquisition opportunity. Currently, OpenTable does a good job of not playing favorites, every restaurant regardless of their prestige or rating and size is treated equally.By adding restaurant reviews what OpenTable has done is align themselves on the side of the non paying part of their equation, me. They are setting themselves up for conflict within their restaurant network as the playing field will no longer be level. Furthermore, for restaurants that do have brand and reputation, and OpenTable really does want these restaurants in their network, they have an excuse to not participate because of the review section.Lastly, not having reviews doesn’t make me NOT USE THE SERVICE. They just added something that is speculatively controversial for their economic customer while not adding anything that will make me, the non-economic customer, use it more!It may end up being a problem that is the equivalent of a gnat on the back of a fly and don’t get me wrong, adding reviews is likely to become something that I find useful as the review section is built out, but I have to wonder why they are risking alienating the paying part of their business with features that cater to the part of their business that doesn’t pay and is going to use the service with or without reviews.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "OpenTable Reviews, Know Who Your Customer Is", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/07/opentable-reviews-know-who-your-customer-is/" }); A Gift From the ’70s: Energy Lessons Posted on October 7, 2008Filed Under Uncategorized | A Gift From the ’70s: Energy LessonsPosted using ShareThisSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Gift From the ’70s: Energy Lessons", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/07/a-gift-from-the-%e2%80%9970s-energy-lessons/" }); Just Get This Election Over With So Things Can Go On As Usual Posted on October 6, 2008Filed Under Public Policy | I am dismayed with Washington D.C. to the point of not even wanting to vote next month. Why? The so-called bailout plan that Congress passed last week, a plan which is nothing more than a standard issue pork laden oinker of a bill that will do little to improve the financial markets that could not have been accomplished by the Fed, Treasury, and Congress without a massive taxpayer funded porkfest.Both presidential candidates had a chance to make a stand for change, instead they shrugged their shoulders and said, in effect, “yeah, this bill isn’t perfect but we have to do it” and signed on. What they signed on for is not change but rather business as usual Washington politics where individual Senators and Representatives load up a controversial bill with their pet projects and screw the citizens they are supposed to represent.You be the judge, is the recision of a tax on a single company that makes wooden arrows for children important, or a tax break for makers for auto racing tracks, or television and movie producers, or a tax credit for plug in hybrids that manufacturers won’t have any problem selling without a tax credit important to financial recovery? This is a bad bill and reflects yet more government interference for problems they themselves helped create. There were ample mechanisms for dealing with this crisis, none of which required a trillion dollar spending bill, like pumping the system with money (happening anyways), raising the FDIC insurance limit (which the FDIC could have done on it’s own without Congress), and capital forbearance. There are three ways for policymakers to address this problem. The most risky and least effective approach is the Paulson plan, as modified by Congress. The idea to assemble a pool of funds with which to bid up the prices of mortgage securities. The U.S. Treasury would take hundreds of billions of dollars of public funds in order to join the table at Liar’s Poker. Another approach, which would work more quickly, would be to suspend the rules that require banks to mark securities to market values on their balance sheets. The problem with this approach is that it puts a blindfold over the eyes of regulators. The agencies that oversee banks lose the ability to recognize when a bank is in trouble and needs to be shut down. A third approach is called capital forbearance. Regulatory agencies would issue new capital rules that would permit banks to make good loans without having the required capital. There is still some risk to taxpayers, because banks would have a lesser capital cushion. However, this is by far less risky than having the government play Liar’s Poker with mortgage securities. Why do the bailout plans focus on the riskiest, least effective approach for avoiding a credit crunch? Because Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs get huge fees and trading profits from Liar’s Poker, and they make very large campaign contributions to key Congressmen and Senators.[From The Lamps Are Going Out, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty]A Rasmussen poll came out over the weekend and had some startling results. Fewer than 1 in 2 people surveyed think that selecting people at random from the phone book would result in a worse Congress, 1 in 3 actually think that people selected at random would make a BETTER Congress and 1 in 3 simply are not sure. This same survey found that only 1 in 4 people think members of Congress actually understand the bills they are voting on and only 23% have “even a little confidence” that Congress will be able to do something constructive to help.Despite just 11% of people surveyed by Rasmussen thinking Congress is doing an acceptable job, 90% of the members will be re-elected because of gerrymandering. Obama and McCain both had an equal opportunity to use this crisis as an opportunity to put the rubber to the pavement for the “change you can believe in” message and both failed. They bellied up to the bar like everyone else and said “yeah this think is a porker but that’s what it takes to get things done”. What makes me or you believe that a McCain or Obama administration would be any more credible at changing the way government works to improve the real crisis in Washington, a crisis in confidence that these people actually care more about the country than they do themselves?In the last 3 decades we have been primary witness to the consequences of government driving policies that end up having disastrous consequences. The first is energy policy and the second is home ownership, both of which were the result of protracted and deliberate patterns of obstacles and obfuscation by both parties over successive administrations.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Just Get This Election Over With So Things Can Go On As Usual", url: "http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/10/06/just-get-this-election-over-with-so-things-can-go-on-as-usual/" }); keep looking » Lijit Search Blogs Clean Tech Companies Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise Software Entrepreneurship Innovation Interesting Stuff Irregulars Management Marketing NewsGator NewsGatorWidgets Off Topic Open Source People Podcasting Public Policy SaaS SAP Social Media Trends Uncategorized Venture Capital web 2.0 Wikis Wireless 337,789 spam comments blocked byAkismet
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