Good afternoon, Council Members, mike solomon. Ocd. When i came to the Housing Project on the housing portal, i take the lead. Brian explained a lot of the ideas we have. Im going to explain two parts. Some of the details that we put in as minimum requirements and i want to hear from you like what might we miss. For example, you know, whenever i put out a solicitation for development or if we do it inhouse, at minimally one of the requirements is you know this must go by sf gov guidelines and of course San Francisco web master team has great guidelines as well. So at least meet all of that. As a designer i happen to know certain things about certain colors you dont use for color blindness and certain things you have to implement into websites so readers can actually use them. But i know there is really a lot more to it and i want to make sure, you know, the google team that brian mentioned, you dont get better than that as far as user interface design. They are going to be our main con
A presentation i want to say last fall was the time when we were preparing comments on our annual consolidated plans that we sent to hud and we solicited input from you, the council, as best we could toen corporate in our plan and what we spoke about was the creation of an online housing data portal in our attempt to make access to our unfortunately somewhat limited Affordable Housing more achievable by the broad range of San Francisco residents. We are here to give you an update on the process. I will give you a little bit about where we are and who we worked with to get to this point and then mr. Solomon will talk a little bit more specifically about the technical aspects of creating the website and my primary point is that to give you some information but to actually solicit as much input as we can get from you before we go forward with factual design process so that we can make sure we address all of your needs. Up to this point we have been working with sales force. Com that has p
In san jose this morning. This picture from the San Jose Fire Department shows how big the flames got after the fire was reported around 12 30 this morning. It took them about an hour and 15 minutes to get it under control. The flames were not the biggest danger are facing firefighters. They used acids and zinc oxides to do etching and that type of cleaning of metal so those were the chemicals were initially involved. This volume of fire, it made sort of a chemical soup. That chemical soup pooled around the builtings creating a massive hat mass situation with the toxic smoke forcing half of the firefighters on the scene, around 50, to be decontaminated. It appears no firefighters were injured. Amazingly it was kept to one commercial building. Sorry for their businesses but glad not too many are affected. Business owners are responsible for the clean up of the contaminated run off. Insurance agents are involved several businesses in the area were blocked off. Dozens of workers were left
From hagerstown maryland. Snow on both sides of the road. The travel lanes remain open. Slush any places. Use extreme caution. Spinning2015 but written in snowflakes on the window of this car. Tweeted from one of our weather watchers. Temperatures above freezing for almost this entire event around the metro area with 34 in germantown and gaithersburg 34 leesburg now. Fred lik maryland martinsburg, winchester all above freezing. Mid to upper 30s from washington to points southbound. Shaded counties including loudy, montgomery and frederick and towards the blue ridge, for Frederick County virginia and Warren County continue to see wet snow and slushy roads the next couple of hours. Use extra caution. Everything slowly changing to rain and coming to an end across parts of southern virginia. Back to the news. Reporter well you can see behind me here that in frederick we still have snow coming down. In fact look at all of the snow that we got here. It may be the first day of spring but it s
The patents but hardware, some 2,000 patents and trademark portfolio going to lenovo. First new phone to come out of the deal was moto x that came out last year. Has not been a big hit. Multiple price cuts. Meantime lenovo is on major acquisition spree, making this deal just days after buying ibms low server business. The deal does still need to be approved in the u. S. And china. Googles c. E. O. Said in a blog post, this will enable google to devote our energy to drive innovation across the android ecosystem for the benefit of smart phone users everywhere. On a side note, this does not signal a larger shift for our other hardware efforts. C. E. O. And founder of tech economy joins us from new york. And brad is here from us in the studio. Is google trying too hard to be apple . Yes and no. No in that the deal in 2012 primarily happened because of intellectual property. Tons of litigation, threatened litigation in the android world. They wanted the patents. And they wants to quell moto