- New Flickr UI with Geotagging is Very Impressive – GigaOM
Flickr has long been a darling of photo lovers, primarily for its minimalist (and intuitive) user interface. However, with over a billion photos, Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of the Yahoo-owned photo service, it is becoming hard to find stuff, and it is time for a new user experience revolving around the concept of discovery…
How long before a photo of every house in the US is on Flickr with geo-tags? - One Step Forward, Two Hundred Steps Back – FBS Blog
Stefan Swanepoel writes that the California Association of REALTORS is taking a step forward by seeking to establish a monopoly MLS covering the state of California. Clareity Consulting has explained in depth why this move by CAR required more thinking, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to make a few points myself…
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October 12, 2007- Will Zillow.com capture every MLS listing in Houston, the fourth largest metropolitan market in the United States? – BloodhoundBlog
From Houston RealNews: The Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) may be a whisker away from providing listings data to real estate valuation site Zillow.com. - Ask 37signals: Is it really the number of features that matter? – Signal vs. Noise
Pablo Fernandez asks 37signals: Do you really think is the lack of features what makes a software better, or is it the “illusion” of simplicity (hiding the less used features, and emphasizing the common ones)? - Amazon S3 At Your Service – Amazon Web Services Blog
Virtually everyone on the Amazon Web Services team has occasion to interact with our developer customers from time to time. This rich source of product feedback gives us a lot of insight into ways that we can do an even… - And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry – TechCrunch
Since reporting Monday that Nine Inch Nails had dumped its record label and was to offer future albums direct to the public, Oasis and Jamiroquai have also joined the move away from the record industry, but the biggest announcement of all is news today that Madonna has dumped the record industry.
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October 4, 2007- The Effects of Too Much Choice – Daring Fireball
They created two displays of gourmet jams. One display had 24 jars. The other had 6. Each display invited people to try the jams and offered them a discount coupon to buy the jam. They alternated these displays in a grocery store and tracked how many people passed the displays, how many people stopped and ampled the jams, and how many subsequently used the offered coupon to buy the jam.The results were surprising…
- Want New Music? You Name the Price. Really. – O’Reilly Radar
In the just-sent-to-the-printer October issue of Release 2.0, we examine some examples of what’s happening on the Web’s edge. One of those examples is the music business and the various attempts to resurrect it. As spelled out in Daniel J….
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September 30, 2007- The voices of bitter experience: ActiveRain’s petition against Move, Inc., is a heart-breaking sob story with no legal merit – BloodhoundBlog
I’ve read ActiveRain’s lawsuit against Move, Inc., twice now. I had thought that I might parse the document, to show its fundamental weaknesses, but this isn’t necessary. It’s so weak that we can knock the whole thing down in a few paragraphs. …
> The last part of this is hysterical. - Wireless Usage On The Rise – FBS Blog
As promised, we’ve mined our MLS usage statistics for wireless access. The following chart speaks for itself …
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September 29, 2007- From Scratch – A radio show about the entrepreneurial life – NPR
Good set of interviews from company founders.
(tags: entrepreneurship podcast) - Things that cost around $66,000 – 1000Watt Blog
1 year’s tuition with room, board and flights home from Princeton A 2008 Mercedes GL320 CDI SUV A10% down payment on a luxury condo with panoramic views at the Rivage Tower in Panama A month’s vacation at Frégate Private Island… - Ask 37signals: Pressure to grow? – Signal vs. Noise
Great insight into what it means to “grow” a software company from a great source.
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September 16, 2007- The Exciter: CouchDb views in Ruby instead of Javascript
Just what it says. CouchDb seems to be getting a lot of interest.
(tags: ruby couchdb) - A Offline Gmail Client: Sweet – TechCrunch
A report from India’s Hindustan Times indicates that Google is prepping an offline version of Gmail.
It’s claimed that a client has already been designed, is in testing, and runs (not surprisingly) on Google Gears. Google has previously offered an offline version of Google Reader using the Gears browser plugin. Other companies embracing the Gears platform …
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September 15, 2007- ELASTRA – The Infinite Database
ELASTRA is the world’s first infinitely scalable solution for running standard relational databases in an on-demand computing cloud.
(tags: aws mysql cluster) - The Power of Six – I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS
… Google would overnight become the largest U.S. ISP with direct and very high-performance access to its customers, including those using the new Google Phone or any other phone that supports WiFi connections, like the iPhone and many others. Google becomes the biggest and lowest-cost ISP and potentially the biggest and lowest-cost mobile phone company in the bargain. …
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September 9, 2007- Labnotes � CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS
SQL databases being replaced by scalable REST web services in the future?
(tags: database scaling)
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September 6, 2007- Is a REALTOR Music Video A Bad Idea? – Comeover.com – The Blog
In theory, yes it is a very bad idea but here is Rich Fravel (aka Rich the REALTOR) performing his first hit, aptly named “Rich the REALTOR.” Rich, resembling David Byrne, pulls it off somehow, someway. - First American to cut 1,300 jobs – Lansner on Real Estate
Register staff writer Colin Stewart reports …
Santa Ana-based title insurer First American announced this morning that it plans to cut about 1,300 jobs this month. The job cuts are in addition to 600 jobs eliminated earlier this year.
The combined cutbacks will save about $108 million a year, First American said. With real estate transactions … - Return Of The Schwag – TechCrunch
The true hard core geek/fanboy crowd loved ValleySchwag when it launched in the Spring of 2006. For $15 per month you would receive a package containing tshirts, stickers, pens and other junk that new startups pay a fortune to have created with their logo printed on it. Usually this stuff is handed out at parties …
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September 3, 2007- Google Wiki Prepares To Launch – TechCrunch
Google may finally be preparing to re-launch wiki service Jotspot, nearly a year after it acquired the company. Jotspot has not allowed new customer registrations since the acquisition was announced, although existing customers retained access to their accounts.
Google Operating System noted that the Jotspot discussion board and help desk have moved over to Google. More [...] - Five Facts About Google Phone – GigaOM
Is Google (GOOG) Phone fact or fiction? Engadget says Google’s entry into mobile phone business is for real, and the company is going to announce it soon. Scott Kirsner talked to a bunch of folks over who are intimately familiar with the effort and outlined his findings in an article for The Boston Globe.The story [...]
