api: Google Maps Exiting The Real Estate Listing Game - 01/27/11 12:25 AM
This week Google announced that as of Feb 10, 2011, it will no longer display real estate listings on its Google Map pages.  In case you weren't familiar with what this looks like today, here is a screen shot:

In the blog post making this annoucement Google said, "In part due to low usage, the proliferation of excellent property-search tools on real estate websites, and the infrastructure challenge posed by the impending retirement of the Google Base API (used by listing providers to submit listings), we've decided to discontinue the real estate feature within Google Maps...".
Of course people can … (8 comments)

api: WalkScore.com Get Even Better - NEW - Transit Scores and Commute Reports! - 08/17/10 02:31 AM
I live in the city of Chicago, and when we were buying a house 6 years ago, proximity to the Blue Line was something high on our list of 'needs'.  Problem was, I was new to Chicago, so it wasn't easy for me to know if there was a train close to the home we were viewing.  Today's home shopper can now look this data up in a cinch.  And even better, WalkScore has free APIs for you to add this data right on your site.
In case you aren't familiar with WalkScore, it is a great site that will give … (10 comments)

api: Zillow Launches Free Co-Branding Tool - Sharing The Link Love! - 07/14/08 02:27 AM
Zillow launched a really cool, free co-branding tool .  You can read this post to learn more about it, but if you just want to see it in action, check out the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace widget I installed in the right hand column of my blog.  Go ahead and click on "see local rates".  This takes you to the appropriate page within the Zillow website, but look at the top of the page.  ME!  And I follow you throughout your Zillow experience.  :)
Now, any time you send traffic to Zillow via a link or widget (we also just launched a … (33 comments)

 

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