Category: Mashups

CO2 Mashup – Largely Hot Air

CO2 Mashup – Largely Hot Air

| April 8, 2008 | Reply

Click on image for greater detail Word via io9 that Purdue has put together a map of the US showing their guess of CO2 emission density. They call the System “Vulcan” and it’s interesting because there is no sensor grid for CO2. Instead Vulcan derives a guess on CO2 density from local air pollution data […]

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Charting The Banking Crisis – A Boomerang Demo

Charting The Banking Crisis – A Boomerang Demo

| March 12, 2008 | 1 Reply

Anyone who has been following the financial news knows that banks and other large financial institutions are under a growing amount of strain given the misguided investments in speculative ventures over the past 5 years, including mortgages and exotic credit / investment packages. While chasing down what state a company like Merrill-Lynch might be tough, […]

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Housing Price Trends – Phoenix Metro Area

Housing Price Trends – Phoenix Metro Area

| February 16, 2008 | Reply

Today we use data from Hardtack to take a closer look at the market in Phoenix. The Phoenix metro area saw explosive growth during the housing bubble, including developments and communities built where they honestly did not make any sense. In addition many of the properties were snapped up by California “Equity Locusts” looking to […]

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Housing Price Trends – Sacramento County Detail

Housing Price Trends – Sacramento County Detail

| February 14, 2008 | Reply

Once again it is time to turn loose a new set of statistics on a segment of our nation’s housing market courtesy of Hardtack. Hardtack now has been collecting data for about a year, and some trends are clearly identifiable in the data. Last time we were looking at details of the declines (and some […]

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Sacramento Housing Prices Declines – Preview

Sacramento Housing Prices Declines – Preview

| February 12, 2008 | Reply

I am on the road for the beginning of this week, but I wanted to post some overview graphs of what is happening in the Sacramento housing market. As you can see there is quite a drop in the asking price per square foot listed in the MLS. You can click the chart above for […]

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OFHEO To Publish Real Estate Data Faster

OFHEO To Publish Real Estate Data Faster

| February 8, 2008 | Reply

The large mortgage companies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government chartered quasi companies. They exist to enable a healthy and robust mortgage debt market, and before the age of Wall Street mortgage generation (which lead to one facet of the current debt and housing crisis) were pretty much the main source for money to […]

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Housing Price Trends – San Diego County Detail

Housing Price Trends – San Diego County Detail

| February 5, 2008 | Reply

As most of the readers here know, my team has been working with new technology to extract, refine and exploit information that is all around us. We have named that technology Boomerang and one example of it is an application called Hardtack. We are approaching the 1 year anniversary of full scale data gathering with […]

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Housing – Price Increases Year Over Year

Housing – Price Increases Year Over Year

| January 22, 2008 | Reply

Today is a perfect day to share some facts on the up side of finance. As is usually the case, even in an ugly market not everything is always all bad. For example we are once again to going take a look at Hardtack data on price per square foot. This time we review the […]

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Housing Price Decline – California Cities

Housing Price Decline – California Cities

| January 14, 2008 | Reply

As most of the readers here know, my team has been working with new technology to extract, refine and exploit information that is all around us. We have named that technology Boomerang and one example of it is an application called Hardtack. We are approaching the 1 year anniversary of full scale data gathering with […]

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Darth Vader vs. Microsoft Tech Support

Darth Vader vs. Microsoft Tech Support

| January 14, 2008 | Reply

Ah a classic YouTube presentation. Thanks to the Fake Steve Jobs for making me aware of this.. The poor fellow from India does not seem to realize that someone has loaded up a swarm of Darth Vader samples and is playing them back.

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