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Now Available: Google Street View via API
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Over at the official Google Maps API blog, there’s an announcement that Google’s Street View functionality is now accessible programmatically via an API (that’s Application Programming Interface, for those who either didn’t know or just took that acronym for granted). What this means for agents, brokers, and vendors is that applications can now be […]
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Coming Soon: Location-Aware IDX Apps
Thursday, March 6th, 2008At the time of this writing, Apple is holding a press release to announce their API for the iPhone; you can check out the live feed here. They’ve announced a lot of really incredible stuff so far, but the part that I was most intrigued with is this:
We have a complete set of APIs for […]
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Building a (Simple) Mashup in 24 Hours
Monday, January 21st, 2008When Zillow released their neighborhood data last Wednesday night, I was floored. My company had talked about trying to acquire similar data off and on over the past two years, but it was always too cost prohibitive to do so. As I thought about the magnitude of what they had done that night, I […]
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Basic IDX Questions, Answered
Monday, December 17th, 2007The other day, Drew Meyers pointed me to a post in the Zillow forums where someone was asking some very interesting (and seemingly common) questions about IDX. The individual wanted to know what IDX essentially is and whether or not someone could create a program that could easily search across all real estate listings on […]
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Geekin’ It Up With Everyone Else
Friday, December 14th, 2007Hey there GeekEstate Blog readers. My name is Andrew Mattie, and I’m a senior software engineer over at Diverse Solutions. I was recently approached by Drew and asked if I wanted to contribute my knowledge and expertise to the GeekEstate Blog, and after thinking about it for exactly .482 seconds, I realized that I’d be […]
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