By Janie Coffey on March 16, 2010
Google Maps Mania is a mashup-of mash-ups. The site collects and displays map mash-ups created with the Google map API. There are maps of just about anything; historical spots, celebrities, beer spots, milk farms. You name it, it’s probably there. Embedding some unique or useful…
Posted in New Media | Tagged Google Maps, google mashup, maps
By Janie Coffey on March 3, 2010
Google has finally opened up their geo-tagged photo source for Maps and Street Views from the irritating and cumbersome Panaramio to Flickr and Picasa. (official Google Release). Geo-tagged photos are tagged by you (automatically or manually) with the location of a photo. Google takes that…
Posted in Marketing, New Media | Tagged Flickr, geo, geomapping, geotagging, google, Google Maps, Google Street Views
By Janie Coffey on February 10, 2010
There are three things I really love; maps, Google and real estate, so when you combine all three in a super-easy-to-use marketing tool and customer resource, you couldn’t make me much happier than RealBird did when they rolled out their map-based property search this week…
Posted in Marketing, Marketing | Tagged google, Google Maps, long tail search, map searching, property search, RealBird
By Nick Bostic on November 20, 2008
Last week I gave you an introduction to why BlackBerry’s are far superior to Treo’s. This week, I’m going to share a few of the applications I use many times a day on my BlackBerry.
For those of you who live in a Verizon-dominant…
Posted in Tech | Tagged BlackBerry, gmail, google, Google Maps, Google Talk, gps, iPhone, outlook
By Nick Bostic on November 13, 2008
I’m a Phone Snob
Anyone who knows me well, knows I love BlackBerry’s. I’ve been carrying one since 2002 when it first went from a messaging-only device to a smart phone. I’ve also carried Treo’s and Windows Mobile phones, as well as a ton…
Posted in New Media | Tagged android, BlackBerry, BlackBerry Pearl, google, Google Maps, iPhone, Mobile phone, Smartphone
By Vicki Moore on October 4, 2008
Looking, Clicking, Reading…
It always happens the same way – exactly how that is, I have no idea. But basically I’m screwing around on the internet. Looking, clicking, reading. Clicking, reading, looking. I land on something interesting. This time it was Google maps. Not…
Posted in New Media | Tagged Google Maps, Marketing, Tech
By Jay Thompson on June 13, 2008
Photo Credit: emily_grace
Silly Technology?
“Jennifer in Louisville” left a comment on Bill’s “Silly Technology” post saying:
I personally find the individual domains for specific properties to be silly (i.e. you list 123 Main Street, so you register 123mainstreet(dot)com and create what essentially amounts…
Posted in Marketing | Tagged Flickr, Google Maps, Single Property web sites, Wordpress