I was skeptical when I first heard about Online Quicken. Why now? Would it be a knee jerk reaction to a slew of start-ups launching their own personal finance management tool, like Mint.com, Wesabe and Geezeo? Would this mean a stripped down version of the desktop version of Quicken, a Quicken Lite so to speak?
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Online banking is in a precarious position these days. The Web-based, rich internet application revolution of Web 2.0 is here to stay, while online banking remains stuck in decade-old technology. It lags far behind even more traditional mainstream Web applications in interaction design, speed, ease of use, and capability. It’s no wonder that several new […]
Buxfer is a start-up with the stated mission of helping you “track your money, effortlessly.” It started innocently enough as a simple script developed by Co-Founder Ashwin Bharambe to track expenses among his college friends at Carnegie Mellon. But after some prodding from friends and inspiration from their soon-to-be angel investor Paul Graham at Y […]
A real treat on many levels, from design to functionality, this newcomer let’s you track all your money in real time. (It was just featured in TechCrunch 40.) It employs some fancy logic (Yodlee, perhaps) to access your external bank and credit card account information using the same online username/password you use to access their […]
If you’ve ever used Quicken then you’re already familiar with PFM (or Personal Finance Manager) and its big shortcoming: it’s a pain in the neck to stay current. But that may be changing fast. With the rise of Web-based applications and on-demand software, the days of downloading transactions from your online bank, reconciling your check […]
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