Honor Roll: This Week's Top Bank Blogs (Nov. 15-21)

Our favorite banking technology-related blog posts from around the Web (November 15-21, 2009):American Express Acquires Revolution Money

James Van Dyke of Javelin Strategy & Research applauds American Express' decision to acquire Revolution Money. "While other brands such as Visa and MasterCard move to capture American Express's desirable share at the upper end, American Express smartly moves to gather beachheads down below," he writes. ---

'Tis the Season for Overflow Help (look to the Cloud?)

This post is ostensibly about security risks related to cloud computing, but the real interesting bit is at the end, where Javed Ikbal breaks down the 67 days it (allegedly) takes to fix a cross-site scripting problem. ---

Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI

"In most cases text-mining software is pointed at electronic documents, such as call center comment fields, e-mail-based surveys and online feedback forms, but there are still lots of paper documents out there," writes Intelligent Enterprise's Doug Henschen in this post about structured and unstructured text mining. ---