At the recent TechCrunch50 event, Japanese company TonchiDot demo’d its new iPhone application called Sekai Camera to wild enthusiasm.
TonchiDot’s idea is to use the iPhone camera and location awareness as a mobile information interface. Using the Sekai Camera application you can tag real-world locations and simultaneously view the tags shared by other users - Tonchidot [...]
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Yawn.
Don’t get me wrong. I think a Zillow Ad Network makes some sense.
And unlike Valleywag, who calls it a “desperate ploy to make sales numbers,” I do see some value in publishers aggregating their advertising inventory for potential real estate advertisers.
I’ll go on the record, I don’t think this is a Hail [...]
One of the things that always struck me at the last couple of Connect conferences was the number of folks in the audience that came from outside the US.
Last month in San Francisco was no different. I met people from Canada, Mexico, Germany, Australia, Spain, France and many others, all walking the floors of the [...]
And a fair number of those were bought by real estate professionals I suspect…
Last week at Real Estate Connect, the Flip came up in conversation numerous times and I can’t count how many of them I saw being wielded by content-hungry conference-goers over the three days in San Francisco.
That’s why I wasn’t surprised today when [...]
photo by Atilla1000
Recently I picked up a new digital camera for an upcoming trip my wife and I are taking to Turkey. After humming and hawing for a while I picked up the new Panasonic Lumix TZ-5 point and shoot (thanks Jeff) to compliment my Canon DSLR. What ultimately pushed me over the top to buy this camera was the TZ-5’s [...]
Exciting news on the mobile real estate front.
Coldwell Banker has just announced it will be feeding all of its listings to the Dash Interneted-connected GPS navigator.
What’s a Dash? The Dash takes GPS to the next level by connecting to the Internet via cellular and WiFi networks. It can also create up a mini MESH network [...]
by powerbooktrance
Geeks love their iPhones. And I tell you what… as soon as I finish writing about a new iPhone application in real estate (see Terabitz Creates MLS iPhone Site), another one lands on my doorstep.
Not that that’s a bad thing.
This time, it’s from Cellsigns - the SMS marketing company. They’ve launched a new [...]
Is this what it’s come to?
(h/t John Hall & Associates)
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by photomagister
Developers looking for new ways to mashup data on a neighborhood level (two of my current favorite applications are Walk Score and Drive Score) have a couple new options this week.
First, Urban Mapping released its free Neighborhood boundary API and now Zillow has followed suit, releasing over 7000 individual boundary files.
What’s in [...]
