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Home price heat map by Stephen Heise. The chart runs from 1975 through September 2007. States that are burning above the historical price trend for that area are in (red) - below price trend are in (blue).
more: http://www.stephenheise.com/2007/12/17/us-real-estate-market-cooling-down/
Video of keynote (at Nokia) given by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail.
From the website:
"MileMeter is auto insurance that makes sense. We will offer "auto insurance buy the mile", so people who drive less pay less for insurance. Customers will buy miles in advance and renew as needed - without vehicle tracking devices. With MileMeter's insurance by the mile, you only pay for the insurance you need. By rewarding reduced driving with lower insurance costs, insurance by the mile has the potential to reduce our environmental impact and to make insurance fair, accurate and affordable..."
In a great 20 minute interview, Ankur Shah from Techlightenment interviews Tim O'Reilly who talks about social media, OpenSocial, Microsoft and Google market dominance, Facebook, genomics, Bubble 2.0 and, of course, the iPhone.
More at: http://uk.intruders.tv/
Evan Williams, founder of Obvious Corp., co-founder of Twitter, and co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs, makers of Blogger - now part of Google has an insightful analysis of how to evaluate a new product idea.
http://evhead.com/2007/12/how-to-evaluate-new-product-idea.asp
Simple, elegant online photo editing...
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