Idlemind - nickcoster.com
Future gazing from a quiet corner of cyberspace.

I was going through some notes and found a brain dump of ideas about online banking, security and customer behaviour. I though that is would be worthwhile posting it here for safe keeping:

Nicks thoughts on future trends.

• Customers will want to do more for themselves and from more locations at any time of the day or night.
• As a mass market group customers will continue to very slow to learn about security risks and even slower to change their behaviour.

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Relates to article from Silicon.com

While I was working on anti spam projects this was a question that came up all the time. The challenge of spam is that the definition of it is a kind of continuum, with email that you want and value at one end and crappy porno, and scam related junk mail at the other end. In between though there is a grey are that generates a lot of passion from people. (more…)

As part of my job and as a point of historical interest, I have been watching the sudden rise of the Mozilla browser, in the form of Firefox. This is one of the fear occasions where the open source world has developed a product and marketed it to non-technical users as a secure alternative to Internet Explorer.

I have embraced the new browser, and I am just getting used to the tabbed browsing features. Netscape have jumped onboard as well, releasing Version 8 of their browser based on the Firefox browser. In fact I have been using Netscape lately and like some of the added features. Unfortunately I have just discovered that it does not support the tablet PC’s pen entry function doesn’t work. This means that I have to go back to IE to write this up. Arghh!

This is something that I should feedback to Netscape or Firefox. I’ll update this post when I get some feedback (if I get a response).