Archive for July, 2006

Carnival of Real Estate

The Future of Real Estate Marketing hosts this weeks Carnival of Real Estate. A great source for some of the top blog posts on Real Estate related issues within the past two weeks. Check it out!

The Search for Smarter Search: Do the Huckabuck

Google is great, but we believe everything can be improved or enhanced, including search. Huckabuck is out to improve search with an easy user interface.
Huckabuck is a metasearch engine that searches several search engines at once. Not new. Dogpile has been doing it for years. Huckabuck’s innovation? Search tuner. Search […]

3 Google Search Tricks

copyright Jolyon Trocianko.
Improve your Googling with these tricks of the search trade.
Trick #1. The space and minus sign (-). This eliminates duplicate search results. Google will ignore all search results that contain a phrase or word you put in quotes. Find a unique word or phrase that always appears in repetitive […]

Sunday Funnies

House of Dominoes (hat tip: Grow-a-brain)
It’s Hot in Topeka (YouTube)

Inman Real Estate Connect SF 2006

Since we couldn’t make it to the Inman Real Estate Connect in San Francisco, we look forward to hearing our fellow bloggers commentary about the show. So if you write something on your blog or have some pictures, video or a podcast, please let us know about it and we’ll put up your link.
Joel, from […]

Redfin & Zillow: Friend or Foe?

Source: Criterion Collection - Dazed and Confused 1993
Dazed and Confused? Then check out these posts by fellow bloggers which may help you decide.
1. 360° Digest - Mr. Kelman Goes To Washington - By Marlow Harris
2. Bloodhound Blog - How dare you object that the Little Red Fin wants to eat the bread it didn’t bother […]

Confessions of a Trivial Mind

Guess which one has the blog? Answer here.

Green Sidewalks Easy On Trees & Knees

The growing trend to recycle materials may be coming to a sidewalk near you. Rubbersidewalks of Gardenia, CA, recycles rubber tires to create walkway squares soft on your joints and friendly to tree roots. They are more expensive than traditional concrete sidewalks but last longer. The savings from trip and fall lawsuits and costly […]

Missing Links of Jamestown Found

Extremely rare artifacts, dating from the early 1600’s, were discovered yesterday by archeologists in a centuries old well in Historic Jamestowne, a national park in Virginia. The finds included a Scottish pistol, leather shoe and lead plaque reading “James Towne”.
The Virginia Colony in Jamestown is historically regarded as the first permanent English settlement in America […]

Body Worlds: Real Human Body Exhibit

Body Worlds is a fascinating traveling anatomical exhibition of preserved human bodies. It is currently at St. Paul’s Science Museum of Minnesota, the largest exhibit hosted there and at Houston’s Museum of Nature & Science. Both shows run through Labor day. Body Worlds has been all over the world. In the U.S., it […]