Archive for September, 2009

HomeZilla’s Open Data Wish List

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Open data is coming to Canada, being lead byOpen Data Vancouver and Open Data Toronto. Osh from 5 Blocks Out has a fantastic post about Open Data: What’s on Your Wish List? and inspired HomeZilla to voice our desires for open data.
The first ‘wish/tenant’ that 5 Blocks Out mentioned was:

If you’re publishing it for humans, [...]

TweetLens on Canadian Real Estate

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

HomeZilla has launched a new feature this week to make it easier to see Tweets about Real Estate in Canada. For 20 top cities, by population, we will show a map of only real estate related tweets. Twitter is fantastic service but with so many messages it is hard to find topics you want. Our [...]

Real Estate Flyers: Community Newspapers VS Online Advertising

Monday, September 7th, 2009

The daily newspaper in Canada, and elsewhere, is under going a rapid shift in their business model as advertisers move money online. Real estate agents and companies are some of the last advertisers to leave newspapers. As stuff gets tougher for newspapers, real estate agents can expect some huge benefits as newspapers try and keep [...]