Archive for June, 2009

RentWiki is Social Real Estate Rental Search

Since launching theClozing.com, I’ve been interested in websites that aggregate and organize  information from sources that include social media.
Rentwiki is a rental seach engine which aggregates neighborhood information and reviews from locals on numerous lifestyle topics.  You can also see tweets about the neighborhood.  Got a question?– ask it on RentWiki  and via Twitter.
From the [...]

KeyRingThing Consolidates Loyalty Cards to One Card

Companies use loyalty club, discount & reward cards to keep customers coming back for savings.  But the problem is folks end up with a pocketful of them— several for supermarkets, one for rewards at electronics and retail stores, one for hotels, one for a buyers’ club, etc.– all on bulky key chains or stuffed in [...]

Truli a Pissed Homeowner

A homeowner raises his voice on Trulia and threatens legal action.
This was posted yesterday, but no published response from Trulia.  Maybe Christopher should complain on Twitter, where Trulia seems to be on the ball.
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Source: Deep Throat

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Spice Up Your Blog and Email with Zemanta Firefox Add On

Zemanta is a Firefox add-on that helps save bloggers time, by suggesting copyright free images, related links,  articles, and tags– directly from a sidebar (with search box) in your blog dashboard– a click adds the content to the post:

If you click the image you like, Zemanta automatically adds it to your blog post– one pain in [...]

A VC Talks News Aggregation

This from A VC blog:
If I was starting The Village Voice today, I would not print anything. I would not hire a ton of writers. I would build a website and a mobile app (or two or three). I would hire a Publisher and a few salespeople. I would hire an editor and a few [...]

Ghosts in the Real Estate Machines: Ghostery Reveals Website Trackers

Ghostery is a Firefox add-on that tells you who’s tracking you while you’re visiting a website.  It’s no surprise that real estate “media” sites like TruZill use visitor tracking software — makes sense since they’re selling ads.
According to Ghostery:
Ghostery alerts you about the web bugs, ad networks and widgets on every page on the web.
Web [...]

Listing of the Day: Kaweah Falls River House

Here’s a new feature I’m thinking of adding to the blog–interesting, historic or offbeat homes for sale.   Here’s our first: Kaweah Falls.  Built in 1947 by architect Frank Robert, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Photos of Kaweah Falls house here.  YouTube video here.
The 4 bedroom, 4 bath, 2 story home is priced at $1,950,000
According to [...]




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