June 11th, 2008 — Launched, Web3.0, web2.0
HotPads.com provides interesting heat maps. I am not sure how accurate it is but the service looks very promising, especially if you are looking to rent or buy in certain area.
Above is a heat map of household income of San Francisco. The meter stops at about $61K, I wish it went further to something like $200-300K at least.
HotPads, which brought us the foreclose heat map, now offers a handy rent ratio heat map. The rent ratio is a home’s sale price divided by the annual rent of a comparable home in the same neighborhood. Looking at the rent ratio gives you a quick sense of whether it makes more sense to rent or buy in a particular neighborhood. If the ratio is high (red on the map), it is usually a good indication that you are better off renting. If it is low (blue on the map), you are better off buying.
via techcrunch
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May 14th, 2008 — Launched, Niche, web2.0
Uptake.com, is another website by Yen Lee, a former general manager of Yahoo Travel (YHOO).
After a quick peek, I got a sense that this could be Yelp for travel. Yelp did start out in San Francisco and I even saw a lot of their Craigslist listing for college kids to review restaurants and retail stores for like $5 per review. (when they were unknown that is)
Perhaps that’s not what uptake can do as travel covers so many different places but they could target major tourism areas like Las Vegas, New York, Hawaii, and San Francisco.
This site does have potential to become a lot bigger as I do like the site layout plus the GoogleMaps API looks great for a travel site. Now, they might even do better if they add a travel blog and write about places they go for promoting their site… (hint, hint?)
Looks great though and they could end up killing competitor sites like Orbitz one day.
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Is there room for another? Perhaps. Enter, Uptake, the invention of former general manager of Yahoo Travel, Yen Lee.
Having previously carried the name “Kango,” in its private beta days (circa, December 2007), UpTake is a site that purports to offer a collection of “the travel industry’s largest database of hotels and attractions,” plus an analysis of “more than 20 million online opinions.” All of it intended to carry out the industry promise of helping travelers “make better decisions.”
via mashable
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May 12th, 2008 — Launched, Search Engine
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Powerset launches its supposedly “human lauguage” search engine. Basically it’s only searching Wikipedia at this point but the search experience is very AJAXed out and good.
I looked up “zedomax” and only thing I could find was Zedomax.com linked to the Hacker article at Wikipedia, which I inserted long time ago.
Powerset looks like great for searching Wikipedia, as Wikipedia’s default search engine sucks.
It may explode onto the mass once Powerset gets more into mainstream search engine market.
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company is being shopped to potential buyers by investment bank Allen & Co.
via techcrunch
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May 12th, 2008 — Launched
MobileTraffic.TV can stream live traffic cam screenshots right into your mobile phone. I think it’s a great idea except they don’t have cameras for where I live, San Francisco. I think it’s necessary to put more cities in California other than San Diego which I am sure they will in the future.
Great idea, but probably will need more cams to become viral.
Before you depart for your daily commute or next road trip, you might listen to the traffic report or check a local website for traffic conditions. With MobileTraffic.tv, you can now access this type of information in real-time, from your mobile device. MobileTraffic.tv claims to be the most comprehensive service available for viewing the traffic camera images from your mobile device.
via killerstartups
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May 11th, 2008 — Launched, Search Engine, google
Goodrunk, a search engine based on Google custom search API, was launched minutes ago. Basically, it give you the “alcoholic” influence to your next Google search.
I typed, “cars” on Goodrunk and got lots of interesting searches. It might come in handy when I need to find a “beer” influenced site when trying to find some sites for blogging.
Lol, I found this great site that uses Google API to bring alcoholic influence to your next Google search.
I typed, “San Francisco” on Goodrunk, and San Francisco Beer Guide came up first on results! Yey, finally a drunken google search baby!
I will be using this search engine from now on and maybe even add it to SiteHoppin Toolbar.
via sitehoppin
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