Gone are the days of radio updates of where Santa is, now we can get REAL-TIME on your fat-man tracking.
First, you can visit NORAD’s web site for tracking Santa that is in 5 languages and features a map that updates every few minutes. Second, they have a link to a kml file for Google Earth so you can track Santa in 3D. I had fun with my daughter this morning showing her the difference of where we are vs where Santa is right now using Google Earth.
Not following Santa, but fun just the same… For those of us around Chicago, if you’re jonesing for some Holiday lights check out Chicagoloand Christmas Lights. Its main feature is a color coded Google map of 216+ well decorated houses around the Chicago area.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from everyone at CRT!
First, Thank you all for voting for my previous blog post in the Bloodhound Blog People Choice’s. That was a nice little treat to learn about over the weekend! Now onto your regularly scheduled programming.
As the person that is conceptualizing an application, you may be so close to it, that you start to get tunnel vision. Often times there are sleaker, better, more appropriate choices that just go unconsidered because of this. This concept is probably better visualized than explained.
The example also spurred the idea of the post - so its real world, and not Jedi Sorcery.
We are in a period where listings are flying everywhere. You post a listing in one place, it appears on several others. Some you may not even realize you are listed on till you get an inquiry.
Recently, there has been much concern that many of these listing syndication/aggregators are actually using your data to make money off you. And if they aren’t today, they probably will tomorrow.
However, think about this: If everyone buys the up sell, won’t everyone be back to a level playing field with less money in their pockets?
Mark Scheel, the man behind the ‘Demo Days’ during the RETS Meetings put together a ‘Portable Pedal Power Generator’. A big shout out goes to Mark and his submission to the Innovate or Die Pedal-Powered Machine Contest. This was the same little invention that got him detained at the Austin airport, as this wired capacitor contraption looked a bit on the suspicious side!
Give Mark a hand, and vote for his submission, and help progress Data Standardization in Real Estate in some one-off way.
Gone are the days of radio updates of where Santa is, now we can get REAL-TIME on your fat-man tracking.
Mark Scheel, the man behind the ‘Demo Days’ during the RETS Meetings put together a ‘Portable Pedal Power Generator’. A big shout out goes to Mark and his submission to the 
