Money:Tech - Mammon 2.0

Been catching up on the blogs this evening about Money:Tech, a sort of "Finance 2.0" conference. We have done some work in taking Web 2.0 strategic principles into this area in the UK and worked on setting up some services ( i-Ball is a very visible example ) so this for us was a fascinating conference - but we couldn't attend as we had major client end-of-study deliverables this week).

Anyway, here is the list of talks and posts I found useful, starting with conference organiser Paul Kedrosky's coverage.

Other interesting articles:

- Reuters CEO sees a semantic web future

- Best lines of Day 2

- Pattern recognition, money and Web2.0

- Bloomberg is Google of Data


Prediction Markets (or not - Robin Hanson wasn't there, but here's the link to his 2006 talk)

- Can Open Source and Capitalism co-exist

- Fred Wilson live-blogged on Twitter ( sadly you can't screen non Money Tech posts on Twitter, so there is others stuff there as well)

And then the Stereotypes....

There are many strong cliches in the finance industry.

The smirking secretive ‘vice president’ at a bulge bracket firm who wears an Armani uniform, is balding and always under 5 foot 8. The kind of guy you might run into at a strip club but who wont let his teenage daughters go to a party or date boys.

The boistrous trader who has put on 10 pounds each year he has been out of college, who doesn’t wear a tie and asks questions like “Are you making money today?” but never listens to the answer.

The quiet, considered hedge fund manager, who pairs jeans with a sports coat and is not afraid to say the word ‘fuck’ in public.

And the listen-only pony-tailed nerd who can only give the world around him partial-attention while he tinkers away in a terminal window.

Interesting how little data there is on it in the blogospere compared to the standard Web 2.0 conference....