See - Ubuntu Edge funding site

24/7/2013: new deals for $625.- and upwards are announced (funding accelerates)

Drag time frame in 2nd graph strip for magnification!

#amount.rb #Nokogiri parser every 15 min. on project page require 'rubygems' require 'nokogiri' require 'open-uri' url = "http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge" doc = Nokogiri : :HTML ( open ( url )) amount = doc . css ( ".amount" ) . first . content msg = "amount: " + amount . to_s + " " + Time . now . to_s + "

" # Time.now - (60*60*4) minus 4 hours in seconds; rackspace server is 4 hours off output_file = "/Users/christof/Desktop/uedge.txt" File . open ( output_file , "a" ) do | f | f . write msg end

#cron every 15 min. */ 15 * * * * /usr/ local / bin / ruby ~ /amount.rb

uptick in funding after posting to hn ( was posted at noon ) - surely not significant . . . still . . . funding rate of time change $3 , 417 , 771 0 . 00170 10 : 00 : 01 $3 , 423 , 612 0 . 00170 10 : 15 : 01 $3 , 430 , 588 0 . 00203 10 : 30 : 02 $3 , 443 , 738 0 . 003 83 10 : 45 : 01 $3 , 449 , 423 0 . 00165 11 : 00 : 01 $3 , 455 , 749 0 . 001 83 11 : 15 : 02 $3 , 466 , 419 0 . 0030 8 11 : 30 : 01 $3 , 474 , 076 0 . 00220 11 : 45 : 02 noon posting today ~ slight uptick in rate of change of funding level ( see slight change end of graph ) $3 , 476 , 017 0 . 00055 12 : 00 : 01 $3 , 483 , 942 0 . 00227 12 : 15 : 01 $3 , 494 , 03 8 0 . 002 89 12 : 30 : 02 $3 , 512 , 621 0 . 00531 12 : 45 : 01 $3 , 517 , 943 0 . 00151 13 : 00 : 01 $3 , 525 , 984 0 . 0022 8 13 : 15 : 02 $3 , 531 , 110 0 . 00145 13 : 30 : 01 $3 , 545 , 968 0 . 00420 13 : 45 : 01 $3 , 550 , 419 0 . 00125 14 : 00 : 02