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i was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell
two years after signing a lease with a landlord who intended to never sell, he is selling. i have to choose whether to buy this 3 bdr / 1.5ba, 1450 sq ft house in san carlos for $888k or rent elsewhere. here's my analysis… ...

anecdotal reports suggest shift in bay area market
in the process of deciding whether to buy my house or not, i've spoken with 3 fairly neutral realtors on the bay area market. sure seems like the first raindrops before an inevitable storm…or could it be a brief shower? ...

advertising mirror
article & video - http://www.infuse.be/v2/thesis/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-2.html. this mirror doubles in function as an ad space. until you stand in front of it, at which time it reverts back to a mirror while you are there. ...

photowoosh (alpha)
link: http://fotowoosh.com. this is a pretty cool site/service for turning 2-d pictures into 3-d fly thrus. check out the link for a video that shows how it works.

web metrics for all sites
http://www.quantcast.com/. “offers free access to all sorts of tracking stats for many popular websites. among the user information presented in a nicely-formatted page are age, gender, and projected household income; aggregated server ...

body hacking
link: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/04/body_hacking_if_you_cant.html?cmp=otc-0d6b48984890. “quinn norton has posted the slides from the popular body hacking talk she gave at o'reilly's recent etech conference. ...

new yahoo interface - alpha (beta)
link: http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/. teguh passed along this link to the new yahoo search interface. incorporates a tool bar to the right that automatically searches the term in certain popular sites like youtube, flickr, wikipedia… ...

powercast - wireless power distribution
link: http://www.powercastco.com/. this is a company that is developing a means of distributing power to mobile devices thru the air. in their minds, “if we can pull data out of thin air, why can't we pull power out of thin air”. ...

joost (beta)
link: http://www.joost.com. joost has a new beta out. joost is a venture by the founders of skpye, that streams tv to your computer via the net. they have a number of content partners that include the likes of mtv, comedy central, ...

multi-touch interface demo video
http://www.freshcreation.nl/comments.php?id=973_0_1_0_c. building on jeff han's work, this is a really impressive demo video of current multi-touch interfaces out there. a good watch…









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