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Marketing Channels. Commercial Broker Alliance. Residential Braden Realty. Welcome to Northwest Real Estate. Social Media. Networking. Cool stuff. Tickets « Seattle Food and Wine Experience. New credit card law, many old problems - Personal finance- msnbc. NEW YORK — You can still get credit if your finances are a mess. It will just cost dearly. A sweeping credit card law that takes effect Monday was supposed to prevent banks from employing tactics that yanked borrowers deeper into debt.
Yet an array of loans and cards with crushing terms still beckons from every corner. Consider a subprime credit card that now comes with a 59.9 percent interest rate. There are also payday loans and prepaid cards, both of which can come at steep costs. The lenders serving risky borrowers say high fees and interest rates are necessary because their customers are more likely to default on loans.
President Barack Obama is nevertheless pushing for the creation of a consumer protection agency that would consolidate oversight of such products, but its fate is uncertain amid negotiations for broader financial reforms. "It's in nobody's interest to lend people money they can't afford to repay," says Kathleen Day of the Center for Responsible Lending. Twitter for Android vs. Seesmic for Android. Who Wins?
With today’s release of the official Twitter client for the Android platform, it’s only fitting that we give you a side by side comparison and let you know which one remains standing. Until today, I have used Seesmic on my Motorola Droid for quite some time. I’m very pleased with it, overall. The latest revision even included a widget that will show a random tweet from the timeline of someone you’re following, and allows a quick-access to post a new tweet of your own. Though to be honest, I still used the Twidroid widget until I wrote this, as I found it to be more functional for what I want it to do. We’ll look at a comparison of three main areas: Aesthetics, Features and Overall. Aesthetics Side by side, the Twitter app is much “prettier”.
Seesmic uses a color scheme that stays true to the desktop client, sporting a gray background with red highlighting. So for aesthetics, there’s no hands-down winner. Features This is where the lines start to diverge. Both apps have custom widgets.