If you have heard of Wesabe but haven’t tried it out yet or aren’t quite sure what you’d do with it, now would be a good time to head over and see the new homepage.  They’ve given it a facelift and it seems much more usable that the previous version.  Overall I like the change, but lets hope that the black bar at the top of the page is a post surgery bandage that will be removed!  I’d also like to be able to pause the slideshow, it really kills things if you are viewing via remote access, which I prefer to do if I want to check anything financial from a computer that I don’t own.  Speaking of the slideshow I noticed one very interesting claim… “Over a Half Billion Dollars … Working for You”.  I would guess that means that there is over $500,000,000 dollars worth of (depersonalized) transactions that users currently have uploaded.  That’s a staggering amount even if they haven’t accounted for transfers between accounts. 

   Wesabe is a free service, with plans for a pay service in the future.  I’ve always wondered how they were going to make money, but if they are doing interesting analysis on all that data then I’m a little less confused.  And I guess if they aren’t then all that data sitting around and more coming in all the time might make Wesabe a tasty morsel for the data hungry Google to gobble up.