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Basic IDX Questions, Answered

Basic IDX Questions, Answered

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…

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Want to Turn Raw Data on a Website or Blog into Something Visually Appealing? Use the Google Chart API

Want to Turn Raw Data on a Website or Blog into Something Visually Appealing? Use the Google Chart API

There 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….

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GPS & Home Listings…Coming Soon!

GPS & Home Listings…Coming Soon!

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…

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What Does OpenSocial Mean to Real Estate?

What Does OpenSocial Mean to Real Estate?

By 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…

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rillow – A Ruby Wrapper to the Zillow API

rillow – A Ruby Wrapper to the Zillow API

A 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…

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Providing Value to Potential Home Buyers Moving to Your Area

Providing Value to Potential Home Buyers Moving to Your Area

Kris 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…

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Google Embeds Google Maps

Google Embeds Google Maps

We 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…

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Surprise! It’s me and the Trulia API in PHP

Surprise! It’s me and the Trulia API in PHP

When Drew told me of GeekEstate, I was told I could blog about anything geeky & real estate related. He said I could even blog about the Trulia API, if I wanted to. So I decided to take him up on the offer. In the…

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