Real Estate —
Posted today on Local SEO Guide…
Just posted the following list of local search api’s on SearchEngineLand. I am going to be maintaining the list here and will be updating it from time to time.
Alcatel Lucent Open API Service
CityGrid (CitySearch)
Earthmine
Foursquare
GoWalla
Hoovers
Outside.in
Praized
TownMe
Trulia
Twitter/MixerLabs
Yahoo! Local
Yelp API
WhitePages.com
Zvents
Inman News columnist Gahlord Dewald posted a piece today aimed at real estate professionals about how they might make the most of social media tools. This clip caught my eye…
… If you expand beyond the “Big Three” social media platforms of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, you might find very specific platforms that align with your [...]
My neighbor Greg Fanslow posted this on Front Porch Forum just now…
Something happened to our outlooks when we moved to the Five Sisters last summer. The sense of community seems to make people happier and we literally felt like it was quite contagious. Now there is compelling scientific evidence to show that having happy neighbors [...]
More from Peter Krasilovsky today…
Homethinking, which rolls out a service today that lets users compare neighborhoods in cities. An art gallery lover in Soho, for instance, might find the 7th street corridor in Washington D.C. to be their place. Gramercy Park is considered a match for Nob Hill in San Francisco.
Just stumbled across this exchange posted on AllExperts.com… (thanks David!)…
Expert: David Beckett
Date: 8/27/2008
Subject: Temporary Housing
Question
Hi David – I read your answers about Burlington and my husband & I decided to move here from Los Angeles a few months ago… We love it here. I am French and we need to go back to France for [...]
Thanks to Greg for his kind words posted today on his own FPF neighborhood forum…
I didn’t want last week’s 400th issue of South Union Neighborhood Forum go unrecognized, so Congratulations, the Wood-Lewis’, on the quadracentenary of our Front Porch Forum! We’re so lucky to have you and this valuable community resource, and keep up [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by grand old mansions in various U.S. cities that have fallen on hard times… whole neighborhoods that, over a couple generations, go from being the toniest side of town to the slum. And solid middle class homes too. How temporary it all is.
So Christopher B. Leinberger’s current Atlantic article, “The Next [...]
A couple pieces today make the case that well-to-do neighborhoods have a reduced sense of community vis-a-vis more middle-class and low-income neighborhoods. True?
From a Wall Street Journal blog (see the comments)…
I’m always amazed at how the richest neighborhoods are also among the most empty.
And from Playborhood…
The fact is that, overall, the owners of these 2+ [...]
The Planning Commissioners Journal blogs today that…
Free, new media have empowered neighborhood groups tremendously. A decade ago, anyone wanting to oppose a rezoning or a development had to go door to door or make scores of phone calls to get people to meetings. Time and distance greatly constrained what people could accomplish.
But now an increasing [...]
Philip Baruth writes today about a controversy in Burlington’s New North End…
Fascinating little snafu in Burlington last week. A very hard-working local activist, Lea Terhune, called a meeting to organize against a new Senior Housing development slated for the Apple Tree Point section of Burlington’s New North End. Wet-land is at issue, and Terhune says [...]