Sue-Point-Oh!

CraigStats!

I’m in the process of looking for a new apartment in San Francisco and feeling quite forlorn because there are very vacant apartments and tons of qualified tenants at Open House. Apparently the market now is similar to how it was during the dot-com boom where one-bedrooms in lowest low of Lower Haight are renting for $1800.00.

Thanks to CraigStats I can now put graphs and visuals to the depression that is searching for an apartment in San Francisco. This site uses apartment listing data from CraigsList and the Google Maps API technology. One of the best features of this site are the heat maps overlaid on the city showing density for high rents, vacancies, postings, etc. Apparently NYC, LA and Seattle are next on the list to receive the CraigStats treatment.

On another note - what’s up with the “I crotch San Francisco” logo at the top right of this page? What does that mean? I’m willing to accept “heart” as a verb because it sounds cute, like a puppy, “I heart NYC” but I’m not sold on this crotch business.

A great visual demonstration of how wikis work by Common Craft. They have a series of web 2.0 terms in “plain english”. This little three minute video is very engaging and great way to give people a quick introduction to wikis.

Best parts: The humming and snapping!

If you are using IE you are out of luck but you Firefox users reading my blog now have the chance to choose the color theme for this blog by clicking on the small color squares in the upper-right. Feeling down, go for the blue! Trying to get in the mood for the environmental theme of this year’s Burning Man, go ahead and choose green! This is a really great skittles candy inspired theme that also includes the possibility to make it fixed or fluid width. Can’t quite seem to figure out how to get over the IE hurdle but I shall persevere because it’s important for me to provide my blog readers with color choices.