When 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…

The data geeks over at Zillow Labs are sharing some of their work via a Creative Commons License. It is represents the neighborhood boundaries of over 7,000 locations in major markets across the U.S. What’s cool is the fact that you can make additions and…

The 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…

My 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…

Doug McCune (the Flex Master) teamed up with the folks over at Universal Mind to develop an interesting and useful system for displaying photos on a map. Their MapMyPix AIR application allows real estate professionals (and everyone else) to display series of photographs in their…

Google has added additional street views in 6 cities today — Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. There’s no real real estate tie-in yet, but I’m guessing Google is thinking about integrating it into Google Base as a way to provide buyers a way…

Mashable clued me into another technology announcement that could potentially benefit the real estate industry — this one mentioned the fact that you can now embed maps from Ask.com into websites and blogs (similar to embeddable Google Maps). One thing to note is something Sean…