Over 200 Developers have joined

Yodlee now has well over 200 Developers registered within Yodlee MoneyCenter.  The community is growing fast.  Many Yodlee FinApps are in the certification stage and will be released to market soon.  The Yodlee FinApp Store website was recently updated giving you more information on how to build and certify a Yodlee FinApp and it provides some sample REST APIs that you can leverage.  Check it out   http://www.finappstore.com/specs.html  If you have any questions please give us a shout at developer@yodlee.com.

Yodlee FinApp Store launches at FinovateFall 2010!

On October 4-5 in NYC, Yodlee is demo’ing, for the first time, our live Yodlee 10 Platform with the first set of Yodlee FinApps in our Store. What’s more, we have 4 development partners showcasing their own innovative Yodlee FinApps…

• BillShrink: “Statement Rewards” – personalized savings so consumers can shrink recurring monthly bills
• H&R Block: “TaxCenter” – expert, automated tax and filing, including a deductions finder
• Micronotes: “KulaMula” – consumer customized offers and rewards from local merchants
• TouMetis: “$MART” – mobile PFM and payment, info and action at your fingertips

With 200 developers in the network and 30 Yodlee FinApps in development, the Yodlee FinApp Store is already growing. Join the Yodlee FinApp Revolution!

Join us at 360 Flex in D.C. Sept. 19 – 22nd

The Yodlee team will be at Flex 360 to meet with Flex Developers to introduce them to the Yodlee FinApp Store.  Join us in the Exhibit hall:

• Check out the demos of the current beta site
• Talk to our lead developers about the development and certification  process and
• Meet with our Bus Dev team to understand the revenue potential of building an app for the Yodlee FinApp Store.
• Register for our Webinar on September 30th – www.yodlee360flex.com

Link to the event to sign up and get all the details www.360Flex.com

We look forward to seeing you there,

Casey, Colin and Jordan

Building a Yodlee FinApp

If you missed our latest webinar on how to build a Yodlee FinApp?  No problem –  here is the information to link you to the recorded webinar session.  Listen to Jordan Reed walk through the Developer registration process, and demonstrate how to build a Yodlee FinApp. 

Building a Yodlee FinApp 
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/yodlee_ccc/view
Recording ID: Z8Q7KG
Attendee Key: j\,q]3}GB

If you have any questions please contact us at developer@yodlee.com

See you at FinovateSpring 2010, S.F. May 11th

Yodlee is looking forward to attending the FinovateSpring2010 conference in San Francisco on May 11th  finovate.com/spring2010/.  Our team is hard at work completing the platform that won Yodlee the “Best of Show” award last fall at Finovate2009.

While Yodlee won’t be giving any presentations at this event, we will be there and are looking forward to seeing the new innovative finance sites, our Partners present and talking with the Developers that are transforming the financial services industry.

Currently, Yodlee has FinApp Developers that are actively discussing their ideas on the Yodlee FinApp Forum developer@yodlee.com  and using the FinApp Developer Beta platform available on Yodlee.com. Over the next month, Yodlee will be doing our first big update to that platform bringing in some key features:

1. New APIs – To bring in account management, history, bills and more
2. External API Calls – Ability for a Yodlee-hosted FinApp to make calls out to external APIs so you can use existing code/functionality without the need to re-write it inside the FinApp
3. External FinApp Hosting – Ability for a FinApp to be hosted outside of Yodlee and make calls into APIs on behalf a user – think Facebook App, Google Gadget, MacOS Dashboard, etc.

So make sure to look for us at FinovateSpring2010. We’ll have business development and technical people there including Jordan Reed, Deepu Kocherry, Suman Sarkar and others.  We’d love to talk with you about getting your FinApp started.

Best,

See you at Finovate Deepu, Jordan, Suman

Jordan Reed

Senior Product Manager and Developer

Watch “How to Build a Yodlee Widget Webinar”

Did you miss the webinar that walked Developers through the process for how to build a Yodlee Widget?  No problem, you can watch it anytime, here is the link:

 Subject: How to Build a Widget
    Recording URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/yodlee_ccc/view
    Recording ID: 6PGFJ9
    Attendee Key: j\,q]3}GB

If you have any questions please contact us at developer@yodlee.com.

Webinar: How to Build a Widget for Yodlee FinApp Store

Join us on Tuesday April 6th

11:00am – 12:00pm PST / 2:00 – 3:00 EST
Jordan Reed, Sr. Product Manager, Yodlee Inc.

 Please join us for a webinar that outlines, in real-time the creation of a Yodlee widget for the Yodlee FinAppStore.

•  See first-hand how to fill out the application details to register your App and receive an App ID#.
• Watch as Jordan navigates the Development platform and downloads and builds on a sample App.
• Engage in the process for widget design, development and testing.
• Learn how to debug the widget before submitting it for approval.
• See how to upload and submit the App for testing and approval.
• Listen to a review of the widget approval and certification process.
• Ask questions throughout the webinar to learn more.

Click here to sign up: http://solutions.yodlee.com/developers_webinar040610.html?=cid251

Data in the Yodlee Platform

Since our first webinar last week, there has been some great discussions going on in the Yodlee Forum (http://forum.yodlee.com) as well as through e-mail (developer@yodlee.com) where developers have been talking about business ideas and technologies ideas for widgets.  One of the biggest questions developers keep asking us is, “what type of information will my widget have access to?”

As a platform, Yodlee is focused on financial services.  The Yodlee PersonalFinance application is all about giving a person a total view of their financial life by letting them see every financial account they have.  It’s been a long time since people had all of their finances at a single bank.  These days over two-thirds of people’s financial accounts are held outside their primary bank, and the average person has over ten accounts!  People have a checking and savings account, retirement, credit cards, loans, mortgages, CD and investments spread across a wide range of institutions and that makes it hard for someone to get a clear financial picture.  Yodlee PersonalFinance solves that problem for the individual and developer widgets can build off of that data.

Through a variety of methods Yodlee PersonalFinance allows an individual to gather all of their different financial information into the Yodlee platform.  Once it’s there, the new widget platform and APIs allow you, a developer, to visualize and interact with the data to help the user better manage their finances.

Most of the information you see in an online channel is available inside of the Yodlee data model.  So for a banking account you have access to current balance, available balance, account type, etc.  You can pull back all of the transactions associated to that account, including the user categories, to help users understand spending and plan ahead.  You can look at interest rates across accounts to suggest moving to better places.

For a credit card, you can see some levels of the interest rates and what the outstanding balance with that is.

For a wireless bill, you can see the breakdown of usage.

What’s the best way for you to figure out what data is available?  Become an active user of Yodlee MoneyCenter.  You can join directly at moneycenter.yodlee.com or through one of the many institutions that offer our products.

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Develop New Apps for the Yodlee FinApp Store!

Learn how to develop cool new financial applications for the Yodlee 10™ platform and be among the first to launch on the Yodlee FinApp™ Store.  Put your ideas to work.

Join us for a webinar on February 24th to learn how you can develop apps for the Yodlee FinApp Store and share in the revenue and distribution opportunity. We will present the Yodlee Developers Program where you can join, build, test and distribute your own cool apps to millions of consumers.

There will be $10,000 worth of prizes awarded in 2010 for the best new applications. Don’t miss out!

To register, click here:

http://solutions.yodlee.com/developers_webinar022410.html?=cid218

Details:

Date: Wednesday, February 24th

Time: 2:00PM EST/ 11:00AM PST

Presenting: Peter Hazlehurst

Senior Vice President, Yodlee Product Development

Jordan Reed

Sr. Product Manager

To register, click here:

http://solutions.yodlee.com/developers_webinar022410.html?=cid218