Chad Fisher enjoys life as an entrepreneur, developing sites to help people find
affordable housing, and creating a resource for users to compare auto insurance quotes from companies in their state.
An Android smart phone can be a real estate agent’s best friend. Rather than having to trudge back to the office or make a phone call [...]
Seth Siegler is the cofounder of Simplistate, an eco-friendly, virtual real estate brokerage. He is also the owner and founder of Robot Workshop – a real estate technology solutions company specializing in IDX and PPC based lead generation. You can find his real estate industry blog at www.sethsiegler.com. We are also pleased to announce that [...]
In my post New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser, I asked the following question around the new browser’s location awareness capability.
So the race is on – which will be the first site to implement this feature? Any bets?
Well today, we have a winner. That was fast.
The blue circle has come to your desktop with [...]
John L. Scott’s Neighborhood Wizard was just the latest by a web site to clean up map based real estate search (see The Evolution of Map Based Searches). And while I called it a ‘gimmick’ in my earlier post, it is an important step forward towards making map searches more usable.
Point2 Homes has released a [...]
Google recently called on me to give a quote for a case study they were writing on their Maps API (see New Blog to Keep an Eye On) and the case study is now live at Google Code. I’m a little bummed they didn’t give me a hyperlink but oh well, what can you do?
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Interested in the “geoweb” or where maps meet the Internet? Google LatLong is a new blog from the Google Earth and Maps team that you may want to bookmark.
As far as I’m concerned, Google releasing its Maps API was the flashpoint that sparked the Real Estate 2.0 revolution – so I’ll keep an eye on [...]
With Shackprices.com getting a nice nod from Inman yesterday (now behind subscription paywall, unfortunately), I thought it appropriate to look at a couple of new real estate search mashups that have come across my inbox recently.
For real estate professionals or brokers looking to add a complete IDX map search to their web site, dsSearchAgent is [...]
Zillow’s got ‘em. So does Trulia. Crazy Egg will even map your web site activity with them. Basically, any data set can be made visually sexier with a heatmap.
That said, the GeoIQ API renders some of the best looking heat maps that I’ve seen so far. Check out their API Example.
I suspect we’ll be seeing [...]
Poynter Online reports from New Jersey on Montclair-based site Baristanet’s attempts to track the changes in their neighborhood through a Google Maps mashup. [via Lost Remote]
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