Finicity COO to speak at AJAXWorld
We’re excited that Nicholas Thomas (Finicity co-founder and COO) will be speaking tomorrow at AJAXWorld in San Jose, CA about the future of Internet Software Services.
Here are some excerpts from his presentation.
Mark Wieser, former Chief Scientist at Xerox PARC, envisioned a world where computers provided services to us but did not command our full attention to derive value from them. He fathered the concept of a third era of computing following the Mainframe and PC eras called the Ubiquitous Computing era, where computers were invisible, everywhere, and with us in the real world. The good news? We have finally arrived in that era. The bad news? Internet Software Services need to do more to match Marks original vision.
Many software services on the Internet leverage advertising to generate revenue, but this business model requires its users to be glued to the computer screen to see and click through to other offered products or services. Premium Internet Software Services seeking to become truly ubicomp must free their users from the tyrannical attention-hogging PC-era and present just-in-time information (JITI) to their customers without the burden of clickthrough rates.
Because Fincity’s business model is subscription-based, the company can and is developing ubicomp solutions to enable its users with just the financial information they need at the time and place they need it most … when making the spending decision. Although after-the-fact reporting is helpful to analyze spending trends and past mistakes, Finicity seeks to give our customers the information they need at the point where the spending decision is made.
Finicity pioneered Rich Internet Applications with its first AJAX and WAP clients in 2004 and our Adobe FLEX client in 2006. We are now announcing the development of a new Adobe AIR client for PC, MAC, and Linux that will provide our customers with information they need at a glance without launching a browser. In addition, we are are exploring other ways to provide users with their personal financial information outside of company-developed software clients.
Cheers,
The Finicity Team
Tags: AIR, AJAX, AJAXworld, JITI, Ubiquitous Computing
