Eugen Leitl wrote:
I have two, somewhat strange questions for you.
Q1) Assume you have a realtime API to a bank account. To several
bank accounts, not necessarily in the same country, in fact.
The fees are just your regular banking fees, nothing unusual.
What would you do with it?
Build a desktop application, like Microsoft Money, or Quicken. These allow you
to login to your preferred bank(mostly US based), and fetch your latest
account details. If you want to initiate a transaction from the desktop, they
open up the bank's secure transaction page in the browser. People are
generally paranoid about sharing their bank/brokerage/finance information on
the internet, so building a website would not make a lot of sense. A desktop
product gives a perception of "control". You do have web-based interfaces like
Yodlee.com though.
Q2) Let's say you want to build a mediator between teachers and
pupils, online. The communication involves access to the desktop
(read-only, or real remote access) and audio. This should scale
to 1000 participants, or above.
How would you do it? Which technologies, preferrably open
source (but also free, as in beer), would you use for it?
Something in beta, and open source - dimdim.com Not sure if it fits your bill.
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