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It’s #REINing on Twitter

March 25, 2009 Cool Websites

More and more people are finding out about Twitter, and recently a whole bunch of REIN members (and associated people) jumped on the bandwagon. Kudos go out to Chris Mewhort for starting a great thread on myREINspace on the topic. First, what is Twitter? Think of it like text messages on your cell phone crossed [...]

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Mike Rowe on Hard Work and Dirty Jobs

March 7, 2009 Cool Websites

Last night I caught a great talk by Mike Rowe on Ted.com.  First, if you haven’t heard about TED, you need to go check it out. Some of the most amazing people on the entire planet speak there, and watching their talks is like crack. Watch one good one and you’ll be completely addicted. (Or [...]

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Why We Drink – Fun with Visual Stories

November 12, 2008 Cool Websites

I was in a bar in San Jose when I caught this video on the TV. I couldn’t hear the Audio, but I still understood exactly what was going on. THis is a completely remarkable way of presenting information. THis is the full version of what I saw, which was then called “Why We Drink”.  [...]

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Moving charts for Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto

October 12, 2008 Cool Websites

To understand the future of real estate, it’s important to understand it’s past. This usually means lots and lots of graphs and charts. Here I’ve used Google Doc’s Motion Charts (ex. Gapminder) to show some metrics for three cities: Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. It’s broken down by year, and the metrics are average price, GDP [...]

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A Picture of My Thousand Words

October 8, 2008 Cool Websites

My friend Andrew over at MarketingFinger told me about Wordle. It’s a tool that takes a blog or a bunch of text and creates a awesome looking semantic word cloud out of it. Here’s what the one for this site looks like. Click here to see the original. FYI, I had to put my RSS [...]

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Coldwell Banker Launches iPhone Integration

October 2, 2008 Cool Websites

I’ve said before I love the iPhone, even though I hate the iPhone. Coldwell Banker, a major real estate brokerage in the US and Canada has launched an iPhone platform for their excellent online resources. In particular, their home value estimation tools and browsing have been specially formatted for browsing on the iPhone’s smaller screen. [...]

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I love my readers

September 27, 2008 Cool Websites

As many of you know, I work for a company doing search engine optimization. We help people’s websites get found in the search engines. I don’t spend much time optimizing this blog. I just try to write about stuff that I find interesting and/or you might find helpful. You folks have read, commented, linked, and [...]

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