Location awareness is one of the killer features in the new iPhone. Especially in real estate apps, like Zillow’s app, which recently broke ½ million downloads.
We all know the old axiom with property, right? Location, location, location.
Now that can be translated to your desktop, in addition to your phone. The new version of Firefox (3.5) [...]
Outside.in has you covered.
They have just launched a new product called Outside.in for Publishers – what they’re calling “an out-of-the-box hyperlocal news section for your website”.
Features include:
Customized Neighborhood News Pages for every neighborhood in your market.
Rich, interactive maps, headlines, and excerpts.
Access to aggregated stories from all local blogs, news sites, and other sources—including Twitter!
Tools to curate [...]
6 months ago I gave up my cable TV subscription. How? One word.
Boxee.
Boxee is a revolutionary application that lets you pull together all your media together in a single browser that you can access from the comfort of your couch. I truly believe that Boxee – when combined with a device like my AppleTV [...]
A nice demonstration of a visual navigation app being developed by Occipital. The app searches for what you’re looking for, plots it inside geo-space and then provides you with directions and a preview of how to get there.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXt21v8Hjhw[/youtube]
(h/t Techcrunch)
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Have you got your ticket for Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2009 yet? Only one more day till the price goes up!
This will be the fifth Connect conference that I’ve been been part of and I’m proud of having been able to contribute to the program over the years.
But more importantly, Connect is something [...]
Realestate.com, the online real estate destination owned by the online mortgage giant LendingTree, rolled out a new sitewide redesign last week.
The new design is clean, fast and eminently usable. And while not as tricked out as some of its competitors, the site is a very capable competitor. Results are returned in a very easy to [...]
Real estate technology is headed straight to the small screen.
‘Nuff said.
For more background on this – read some of these earlier posts:
House Hunting On The Go
Mobile Real Estate can Thank the iPhone
Apple Releases SDK Kit for iPhone
Mobile Real Estate Search Paradigm Just Shifted
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Estately has been playing the slow and steady game, but it’s one that I’m increasingly convinced is working out for them.
Today, they announced the addition of their tenth metropolitan market as they bring Atlanta under their fold. Adding 127,000 listings from two Georgia MLS databases, it now brings the total number of properties for sale [...]
Gahlord Dewald writes today over on Inman.com about Tweetlister – a new service that helps you market your listings on Twitter.
The main advantage? Tweetlister takes all the listing details you input in to the site and automatically creates a 140 character “tweet” for you and gives you a landing page for the property.
Dewald writes…
With all of [...]
MLS powered search site Roost launched a brand new redesign last week (see Roost.com announces redesign).
Unfortunately, it undid a lot of what I thought made the old site great. But hopefully we only seeing the first iteration of this next generation site and the site will continue to evolve.
Here are a couple things I picked [...]
