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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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MoveSmart.org - Technology for an Integrated Chicagoland
Monday, February 11th, 2008Last week, I read about MoveSmart.org at ReadWriteWeb (also coverage at Wikinomics) and thought some of the real estate geeks reading Geek Estate might be interested in the project. According to MoveSmar.org -
Until now, information on neighborhoods has been buried in the back of academic reports, pinned to community center bulletin boards, and locked in […]
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What Does Myspace’s Developer Platform Mean to Real Estate? Anything?
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Myspace has finally launched a developer platform in an effort to keep up with Facebook’s developer platform.
This begs the question — what, if anything, does this mean to the real estate tech industry? Are any real estate web geeks planning on building real estate specific apps? Or has everyone already given up on Myspace in […]
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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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Want to Turn Raw Data on a Website or Blog into Something Visually Appealing? Use the Google Chart API
Thursday, December 6th, 2007There is a new Google API that might be of interest to some of you who are looking for a means to easily turn numeric data (such as real estate market statistics) on your site into something more visually appealing — the Google Chart API. In addition to venn diagrams and scatter plots, the API […]
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GPS & Home Listings…Coming Soon!
Thursday, November 8th, 2007My head spun when I saw this video. It shows how Dash GPS has begun to mashup open API’s from the web and putting them into GPS navigation devices. The video shows the users driving around Silicon Valley looking at home values from Zillow as they drive by homes.
If you’re a Realtor…YOU WANT THIS NOW!!! […]
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What Does OpenSocial Mean to Real Estate?
Friday, November 2nd, 2007By now, many of you have probably heard of OpenSocial (part of the reason Google’s stock is now above $700). OpenSocial is said to be Google’s answer to Facebook and has been all over the blogosphere the last several days. What exactly is it?
OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple […]
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rillow - A Ruby Wrapper to the Zillow API
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007A freelance developer, Leo Chan, has released something that might interest some of you working with the Zillow API — an open source ruby wrapper for the Zillow API that converts the xml returned via the API into a ruby hash/array format. For real estate web developers who use Ruby on Rails, it should […]
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Providing Value to Potential Home Buyers Moving to Your Area
Monday, September 17th, 2007Kris Berg is a genius. Or maybe it’s her husband Steve. It doesn’t really matter. Regardless of whether it’s Steve or Kris (or both), they are doing an awesome job with their website, SanDiegoCastes.com. The site is a valuable resource for home buyers interested in living in San Diego — with market stats, floor plans, […]
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Google Embeds Google Maps
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007We all see those YouTube videos embedded everywhere across the Internet. Google has just implemented the same technology that allowed everyone to place videos onto their blog, myspace account, website, etc. to their Google Maps solution. Take a look at the official announcment.
In case you were wondering, this is huge news. Google maps has been […]
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