Thursday, August 23, 2007

The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same

I can't remember who coined the phrase or wrote the lyric 'The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same', but Al Stewart seems to come to mind.

We're completing a huge change to iBanknet.com, yet you won't see it. Well not initially.

When we started iBanknet.com, we didn't realize how popular it would become. Subsequently, we've had to start focusing on things like infrastructure and scalability. Over the last month we've changed everything, I mean EVERYTHING. We're in a testing mode right now and will probably start phasing in the changes over the next few weeks.

What will you see different. Nothing. What will the impact be. No Impact(fingers crossed).

But these changes will allow us to scale iBanknet.com and to increase our coverage. Right now we cover about 1,000 financial institutions. We will publish Q2 2007 in a few weeks with the same number of institutions. A few weeks after that we are planning to double our content by publishing a large state or complete FRB district. We'll take a breath and continue to rollout more content at a quicker pace.

On the back-office side, my life got a whole lot simpler. Much of the manual work is being automated. I will now be able to focus on how to bring you more interesting content.

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