AI Data Startup Lands $2m Seed Funding
Today’s Geek word is “Ethnographic”. Basically, it’s the presentation of data as it applies to society or groups. Lynden Foust, Spatial’s CEO and a team of about 10 engineers are building a social...
View ArticleGoogle’s “parking difficulty” and “find parking” + a Real Estate Idea
You may have seen the news from Google Maps that they added “parking difficulty” coverage to 25 more cities (doubling coverage from 25 cities to 50). That of course got me thinking about the real...
View ArticleGoogle Maps and a Coming Crisis for Real Estate Techies
I have a prediction: many developers are going to get caught with their pants down when Google Maps APIs become significantly more expensive come June (see this article and here). It’s blatantly...
View ArticleMapquest 4 mobile brings voice guidance GPS to iPhone
MapQuest recently released its own free voice navigation app for the iPhone and BlackBerry. From the website: “The MapQuest 4 Mobile downloadable application provides easy access to Directions, Maps,...
View ArticleMicrosoft's new Street Slide blows away Google Maps Street View
Absolutely amazing new map technology will soon be released from Microsoft. You must watch this video to understand how Street Slide could make you stop using Google Maps. Think about it – you could...
View ArticleHow Do You Keep Real Estate Local?
Selling real estate is a local game. Buyers in particular want to get a feel for a place. They want to touch, to get a feel for the environment and they want to see themselves not only in a home but in...
View ArticleWhat’s the best mapping IDX?
In a subsequent post I plan to do a video review of several of the mapping IDX products out there. You might say that IDX comparisons have been done to death, but I want to specifically focus on the...
View ArticleUK Property Sites Utilize New “Travel Time” Search Feature
Editor’s Note: By way of his inaugural post, I’d like to introduce our newest contributor Charlie Davis. Charlie is a co-founder of iGeolise.com, a company that delivers software to the property...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Focusing on Real Estate Vertical
What corporations spend money to promote/advertise is a fairly telling sign of where they are investing their money/manpower. I came across the following promoted Tweet the other day from Google Maps....
View ArticleOpenStreetView – A New Alternative to StreetView
OpenStreetView recently launched (SearchEngineLand coverage). Real estate is a big vertical for Google Maps and StreetView. For the mapping geeks out there, you should take a look. If you’d like to...
View ArticleAI Data Startup Lands $2m Seed Funding
Today’s Geek word is “Ethnographic”. Basically, it’s the presentation of data as it applies to society or groups. Lynden Foust, Spatial’s CEO and a team of about 10 engineers are building a social...
View ArticleGoogle’s “parking difficulty” and “find parking” + a Real Estate Idea
You may have seen the news from Google Maps that they added “parking difficulty” coverage to 25 more cities (doubling coverage from 25 cities to 50). That of course got me thinking about the real...
View ArticleGoogle Maps and a Coming Crisis for Real Estate Techies
I have a prediction: many developers are going to get caught with their pants down when Google Maps APIs become significantly more expensive come June (see this article and here). It’s blatantly...
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