Real estate – Science, Technology, Society

Domain name prospecting

Posted on May 21, 2013June 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name
David Teten, forbes.com

This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?”.

I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportuni…

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How Many New Domain Names Will the Explosion in gTLDs Really Produce? (thenextweb.com)
Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name – Forbes (cctld.dk)
Livestream CEO: Good Domain is the Best Marketing Investment Ever Made (tldmagazine.com)

Why Everyone at My Company Has One Job Title

Posted on December 23, 2012June 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space exhibit, models of early scientific satellites (Photo credit: Chris Devers)

Issie Lapowsky, inc.com Inc. magazine The Nerdery, No. 99 on Inc.’s Hire Power list, rose above tragedy to give every employee a personal stake in success COMPANY PROFILE Company: The Nerdery Headquarters: Bloomington, MN Founder: Mike…

RT @whatifglobal: Why one company named all its employees “co-presidents”: Another moving read from @Inc’s Hire Power Awards http://flip.it/BH3bP http://flip.it/hkqB9 Why Everyone at My Company Has One Job Title

3 Tips to Avoid Being a ‘Job Title Commodity’ (business2community.com)
Think like a Recruiter when you write your resume (glennitliong.wordpress.com)
AMD hires ex-Apple graphics chip designer Raja Koduri (electronista.com)
Is your resume missing a title? (examiner.com)

Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

Posted on October 25, 2012March 27, 2013 by timbatchelder

Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings
Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

Online real estate service Zillow is expanding its real estate listings today by adding “pre-market inventory” — specifically, homes that have either been foreclosed or are in the foreclosure process.

Increasing the selection of…

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No longer a buyer’s market for homes? (stltoday.com)
Is Zillow Inc (Z) Zooming Past its Competitors? – Trulia Inc (TRLA), Move Inc. (MOVE) (insidermonkey.com)
High Foreclosure Rates Unlikely to Weaken Home Price Gains in Sarasota Reports Sarasota Bay Real Estate (virtual-strategy.com)
Documented crisis: Zillow.com adds information on 1.8m pre-foreclosure, foreclosed properties (nextlevelofnews.com)
Zillow’s Rental App Now in Spanish (dailyfinance.com)

Real Estate Photography by Open2view

Posted on August 23, 2011August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Real Estate Photography by Open2view.

an interesting start up franchise company that does 3d home photography and imaging

Real Estate Investing Advice – MilitaryVALoan.com (militaryvaloan.com)
Correctly reporting rental real estate (abataxaccounting.wordpress.com)
What to Expect as a Real Estate Agent (tamadaproperties.wordpress.com)
Hunt real estate sales top $1B (bizjournals.com)
Erie real-estate market gaining strength (goerie.com)
Open Houses In Brooklyn New York- Sunday August 26th, 2012- Hosted by Fillmore Real Estate Ave J’s Office (cadogan1.wordpress.com)
Hottest Week 2012: Real Estate Hotties: Ken Fox vs. Danielle Lazier (sf.curbed.com)
Hottest Week 2012: Real Estate Hotties: Jude Vargas vs. Kevin Ho (sf.curbed.com)

Get Your Walk Score – Find Walkable Apartments and Rentals

Posted on August 24, 2010August 24, 2012 by timbatchelder

Image via CrunchBase

Get Your Walk Score – Find Walkable Apartments and Rentals.

This cool little tool allows you to figure how easy or difficult it is to walk around your area and get stuff, or whether you need to drive everywhere. useful for finding places to live.

Walkability – A Jane Jacobs Metric? (gehlcitiesforpeople.dk)
What’s Within Walking Distance? (iphonelife.com)
How to Make Your Apartment Greener (apartmentguide.com)
‘Walk Score’ Is Great, But it Still Doesn’t Capture ‘Walk Appeal’ (theatlanticcities.com)
Scoring Your Community (planforthepublic.com)
How Walkable is Your Neighbourhood? (datamining.typepad.com)
On walkability and how to measure it: part 1 of an intermittent series (householdopera.typepad.com)
Walkscore now available for all homes for sale (ziprealty.typepad.com)
The Most Dangerous States for Pedestrians (247wallst.com)

Visualizing town-by-town assessed home values and billed property tax amounts in Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2010

Posted on May 17, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Very nice info graphic and visualization tool which shows (yikes) both the tax rates for each town and also the change in assessed home values. It definitely shows the drop in value that occurred in Central Mass and some other regions where a simple house can now be purchased for under 100k.

Town-by-town assessed home values and billed property tax amounts in Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2010 – Boston.com.

TurboTax – How to Estimate Property Taxes (turbotax.intuit.com)
TurboTax – What Are Personal Property Taxes? (turbotax.intuit.com)
TurboTax – Paying Property Taxes Online (turbotax.intuit.com)

EcoBroker: A community for ecological real estate

Posted on May 17, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

I like this idea. A designation and community for those interested in ecologically based housing.

According to their site: EcoBroker.com is your resource for real estate opportunities and energy and environmental information. Professionals and consumers use EcoBroker.com to conveniently find expert information, property listings, real estate agents, and other proven product and service providers.

The EcoBroker Designation Homepage.