Realtor.ca (website formerly known as MLS.ca) has received mixed reactions since its launch. When a popular website changes their UI people always complain because it is ‘new and strange’. Now month later, we don’t see many bloggers complaining about the UI. Maybe they gave up or maybe they have moved onto the next story.
The [...]
We are proud to announce the official launch for HomeZilla. HomeZilla is a a one-stop shop for Canadian home buyers to find neighbourhood information. Our goal is to fundamentally change the home buying experience in Canada.
We help Canadians answer common home buying questions such as:
Where is the closest school, subway, bakery, dog park, etc.?
What is the average [...]
Welcome to the second HomeZilla Real Estate Trends. Each month, we will share the search trends for real estate research on HomeZilla. We list the most searched provinces, top 10 most searched cities and top 10 most searched amenities.
The categories will grow and change every month; please send us suggestions for next month’s HomeZilla Real [...]
KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language) is a technology that Google puts their weight behind in an attempt to create an open standard for expressing geographic annotation and visualization. Well, on April 13th, the Open Geospatial Consortium, announced that OGC Approves KML as Open Standard.
Open standards are fantastic and will help to ’spur on’ innovation and [...]
Yay! We just found out HomeZilla will be presenting at the Canadian Innovation Exchange to be held in Toronto on April 29th and 30th. Presenting to and network with the folks attending the Canadian Innovation Exchange is going to be exciting. They have an excellent list of speakers; personally, I am looking forward to seeing [...]
Yesterday, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitled “We Need a Wikipedia for data,”. I agree with much of this blog post; allowing a larger number of people access to data will surely help make the information more useful.
A good example of ‘opening up data’ can be found in the book ‘Wikinomics‘ [...]
The cost of heating and cooling our homes has been steadily going up. This will certainly benefit the green movement especially when it comes to retro-fitting existing homes.
There are several groups around Canada helping home owners to ‘green their house’. In Vancvouer, you can find Vancouver Renewable Energy Cooperative. In Toronto, there is a voluntary [...]
Chris Anderson, the author of ‘The Long Tail’, has just published a new article in Wired Magazine about “Why $0.00 is the future of business“. This is a great article and I would highly recommend it, as well as his previous book.
So, does this mean I think real estate will become free? Certainly not. Unless you [...]
I recently attend an event here in Toronto called Founders and Funders - it was fantastic.
One great conversation was about the collection and ownership of data. In the past, many companies have collected massive amounts of information and were successful by making that data useful to other people. Once access to the data becomes ‘valuable’, the [...]
