Archive for April, 2008
US house prices still down
This chart, courtesy of Standard and Poor’s, shows the severity and magnitude of US house prices adjustment overt he last 18-24 months.
Standard and Poor’s also issued a press release just yesterday about the continued fall of US house prices, now reaching 18-20%+ YoY in cities like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami and San Francisco, once […]
The Masdar initiative, aka Abu Dhaby renewable energy bet
You would never expect that one of the major hydrocarbon-producing (oil!) nation in the word starts a clean and sustainable energy project.
Well, it is true. It has happened, and it is extremely smart. Abu Dhabi launched the “Masdar Initiative” in 2006, defined as a “global cooperative platform for open engagement in the search for […]
Too early to be optimistic
Wolfgang Munchau explains why the economic recovery might take much longer than anticipated, and why it is too early to be optimistic.
All is down to the several crisis that are happening in the same time: property, credit, banking, food and commodities. And they are all happening while saving rates are at historical lows and the […]
Keyword Search at a breaking point?
This is an interesting blog about the limits of keyword search, and what there might be beyond it. The idea is that keyword search is reaching its breaking point and new types of search need to step in to make sure we keep on easily finding what we need in the growing number of documents […]
Microsoft Live Mesh
Here it is. Microsoft’s big move into the everywhere everytime with Live Mesh. The New York Times has it covered here, and CNET here. Check it out yourself at www.mesh.com.
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Signs of a bubble bursting
I remember back in January a colleague of mine telling this story to a small audience.
“Sunday I was in bad with a bit of flu, and here he calls, the agent from XXX, asking me if I wanted to see some property to buy (he showed interest in buying a property weeks before). I […]
300 adnetworks in US
This is crazy! I read this number on the WSJ, if I remember correctly. I am not convinced there is enough space to nicely run 300 ad networks in the US. Probably not even in the whole world. There is probably enough room for a dozen or so. Every sort of medium sized publisher that […]
Don’t shoot Comscore
After Google reported strong Q1 earnings, people from all around the world started shooting at Comscore.
Quite wrongly, considering that Comscore numbers weren’t used in the most appropriate way. As Comscore points out in a blog post, it is necessary to compare apple to apple. And to know their product fairly well, before making any conclusions. […]
BMW-Audi
I like this one!
The Clean Energy Scam - TIME
This is worth reading. Really. It’s about the perverse things that bio-fuels production is causing. Like de-forestation (which causes 20% of all carbon emissions), loss of bio-diversity and many other things.
“Some scientists believe fires are now altering the local microclimate and could eventually reduce the Amazon to a savanna or even a desert. “It’s approaching […]