It was a Busy Week in the Jungle June 25, 2007
eBay and Google kind of make up – sort of
Nearly 2 weeks ago, I relayed the story of eBay & Google’s corporate cat fight. Well, eBay has decided resume their advertising on Google, but they will be relying on alternative advertising services to a greater degree. This is good news for Yahoo and Microsoft and [...]
John L. Scott Real Estate Launches “Neighborhood Wizard(sm)” June 7, 2007
I am happy that John L Scott launched the first useful area search. It is so much more helpful to select a specific area to look for homes, rather than the viewable area of the map. For instance with all other map searches your viewable window is your search area. If [...]
Great Scott! Polygon Based Property Searching!
About 13 months ago, John L. Scott & Real Tech introduced what they brand High Definition maps for their map based MLS search. Well today, they’ve gone from 720p to 1080p with the introduction of the “Neighborhood Wizard“.
With the Neighborhood Wizard, you draw a polygon like you would in a drawing program. Then when you’ve [...]
Meanwhile, Back In Redmond… May 30, 2007
Yesterday, Google Maps introduced Street View Maps for 5 major cities (alas, Seattle wasn’t one of them). The implementation of the Street View feature rocks even though the image quality isn’t as good as it could be. Jim and Galen have already blogged about Google’s new release, so I’ll avoid repeating what they’ve already said.
What [...]
Google transit now in 5 cities September 28, 2006
Google transit is now in 5 cities. It’s a great setup, similar to New York’s hopstop.com. Here is the trip from downtown Seattle to the airport.
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Google takes real estate seriously July 28, 2006
The people who poke and prod Google in the hopes of finding secrets hit a treasure trove of services in Google’s testing area today and it looks like Google isn’t just dinking around with a crummy Google-base - real estate listings mashup anymore. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise, what with Paul Rademacher (founder [...]
Time Travel Transportation Maps May 26, 2006
Not like Back To The Future, but pretty cool nonetheless. These transportation maps from the UK are super-sweet - they show the travel time by bus or rail from a few cities in the UK. I imagine we’ll be able to generate maps like this on the fly to show travel time from wherever [...]
The race for 2nd place has begun May 9, 2006
OK, I’m biased and I still believe that “Zearch” is currently King of the Hill of King County home searches. However, I’m willing to give credit where credit is due and say the distance between us and the rest of the pack got smaller today.
Today, John L Scott and their solution provider, Bellevue based Real [...]
SELECT * FROM MLS WHERE Remarks = ‘Whoa’ May 4, 2006
I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on how Rain City’s favorite MLS Search is implemented. I’m a little tired of thinking in computer languages (mostly T-SQL, C# and Javascript), so I figured I’d blog a bit in Geek English for a little while before I hit the compiler again.
I’m always interesed in how [...]
RCG’s Zearch is Released! April 25, 2006
Robbie has just released what may be the most addictive home search tool I have every used!
Search Tool Codename: Zearch!
Some obvious highlights include:
Dynamic map of color-coed listings
Geocoded Rain City Posts
I know the search is addictive because earlier today I showed this to a friend who is in the market to buy a [...]
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